Oracle Contracts in the South West

Oracle
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 89 57
Rank change year-on-year +37 -32 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 66 62 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.96% 1.96% 3.63%
As % of the Vendors category 8.84% 4.89% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 96
10th Percentile £350 £299 £350
25th Percentile £475 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +2.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £575
90th Percentile £650 £658 £705
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.92% -58.40% +78.57%

All Vendors
South West

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 747 1,267 1,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 44.84% 40.06% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 812 1,024
10th Percentile £215 £200 £257
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £629
90th Percentile £683 £725 £714
England median daily rate £525 £515 £536
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.92% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 181 72
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.60
25th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £49.92
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -23.39% +30.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.34 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.70% -37.14% +63.63%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the South West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +22 25 £550 -15.38% 32
Wiltshire +42 23 £575 +35.29% 8
Gloucestershire +18 8 £563 +19.68% 22
Devon +12 3 £250 -41.18% 5
Dorset +4 2 £280 -45.37% 5
Somerset +3 2 - - 10
Cornwall +7 1 £350 -11.62% 1
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.64%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Camunda
4 1 (1.52%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) AWS
2 8 (12.12%) OCI
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.55%) Azure
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.03%) Apple Pay
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) Google Pay
4 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.03%) SaaS
4 2 (3.03%) Serverless
4 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.52%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) DNS
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 10 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.06%) MySQL
5 4 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.03%) CockroachDB
7 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (3.03%) Power BI
8 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Git
2 12 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (13.64%) JIRA
5 4 (6.06%) GitLab
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.52%) Flyway
7 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (19.70%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.55%) Military
4 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Law
6 1 (1.52%) Local Government
6 1 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Oracle Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Senior
5 5 (7.58%) Consultant
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle Financials Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) REST
2 11 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (16.67%) SOAP
3 3 (4.55%) CSS
3 3 (4.55%) HTML
3 3 (4.55%) Spring
3 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (3.03%) ModSecurity
4 2 (3.03%) React
4 2 (3.03%) XML
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) Django
5 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.52%) Java EE
5 1 (1.52%) JPA
5 1 (1.52%) LDAP
5 1 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (1.52%) ODBC
5 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (7.58%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) PKI
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.52%) Clustering
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.52%) FMCG
4 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Linux
2 14 (21.21%) Windows
3 12 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) Solaris
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Unix
5 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 11 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (16.67%) Validation
4 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (15.15%) Migration
4 10 (15.15%) NsoIT
4 10 (15.15%) Reverse Engineering
5 9 (13.64%) Service Management
5 9 (13.64%) System Testing
6 8 (12.12%) ERP
7 7 (10.61%) DevOps
8 5 (7.58%) ETL
8 5 (7.58%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.58%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (7.58%) Workflow
9 4 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (6.06%) Data Modelling
9 4 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) SQL
3 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 10 (15.15%) Bash
5 9 (13.64%) Java
6 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.52%) R
9 1 (1.52%) VB
9 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.52%) VB6
9 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (56.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) OCA
3 11 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
3 11 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (15.15%) CCNP
4 10 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (15.15%) RHCA
4 10 (15.15%) RHCE
5 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
6 5 (7.58%) Degree
7 2 (3.03%) IIBA
8 1 (1.52%) ACCA
8 1 (1.52%) CIMA
8 1 (1.52%) MCSA
8 1 (1.52%) MCSE
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) GAAP
4 1 (1.52%) IFRS
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.58%) Docker
3 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Ansible
2 11 (16.67%) Puppet
2 11 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 10 (15.15%) Progress Chef
4 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.06%) Terraform
6 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) VMware
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.15%) Cisco
4 9 (13.64%) Atlassian
5 5 (7.58%) Salesforce
6 4 (6.06%) SAP
7 3 (4.55%) MuleSoft
8 2 (3.03%) Apple
8 2 (3.03%) Google
8 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.52%) Infor
9 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.52%) Talend
9 1 (1.52%) Veeam