Oracle Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Oracle
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 14 September 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 50 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 -15
Contract jobs citing Oracle 26 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.13% 1.77% 4.68%
As % of the Vendors category 8.07% 3.19% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 17
10th Percentile £348 £489 £448
25th Percentile £376 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -6.38% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £688
90th Percentile £610 £681 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £513 £574
% change year-on-year -6.34% -10.75% +14.85%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 251 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 51.11% 55.65% 38.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 144 111
10th Percentile £276 £313 £213
25th Percentile £360 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £609 £645 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.35 £18.65
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.36 £22.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +12.82% +16.42%
75th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £53.90 £21.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +156.64% -4.55% +17.65%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in South Yorkshire

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in South Yorkshire

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Sheffield -1 26 £465 -15.45% 2
Oracle
Yorkshire

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (34.62%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) CICS
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) GitHub
2 2 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.85%) FCoE
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) Multicast
2 1 (3.85%) NAS
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (80.77%) Oracle Database
2 12 (46.15%) SQL Server
3 7 (26.92%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Postman
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Commvault Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DBA
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Developer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Mobile Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) FastAPI
2 2 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) JPA
3 1 (3.85%) jQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
4 1 (3.85%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) PDA
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Solaris
3 2 (7.69%) zOS
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) MVS
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.85%) SUSE
4 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) API Integration
4 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (34.62%) Task Automation
4 9 (34.62%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (26.92%) Change Management
5 7 (26.92%) Data Migration
5 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (26.92%) Migration
5 7 (26.92%) Problem Management
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
8 1 (3.85%) Customer Service
8 1 (3.85%) Database Migration
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (3.85%) Model Validation
8 1 (3.85%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (15.38%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.54%) Docker
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) KVM
4 2 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.85%) NFS
5 1 (3.85%) SRDF
5 1 (3.85%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Ansible
2 11 (42.31%) Data Guard
3 10 (38.46%) yum
4 7 (26.92%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
6 2 (7.69%) Puppet
6 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Commvault
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) EMC
3 2 (7.69%) F5
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) NetApp
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Sybase