Oracle Service Bus Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Oracle Service Bus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £375 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Oracle Service Bus falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,863 1,604 1,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.20% 10.99% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 940 1,210
10th Percentile £213 £205 £213
25th Percentile £358 £349 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -4.05% -2.29%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £593
90th Percentile £670 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 54 95
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.53 £15.79
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +93.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £69.45 £64.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.40 £66.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% +42.86% +32.79%

Oracle Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Service Bus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Oracle Service Bus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Service Bus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Service Bus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Wales - 6 £375 -
South West - 1 - - 1
Oracle Service Bus
UK

Oracle Service Bus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (85.71%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Consultant
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (42.86%) BPM Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) IT Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Lead
4 2 (28.57%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) JSON
1 7 (100.00%) OAuth
1 7 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) XSD
2 6 (85.71%) OpenAPI
2 6 (85.71%) Swagger
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) SOA
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) API Design
2 6 (85.71%) API Management
2 6 (85.71%) BPEL
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) SDLC
2 6 (85.71%) Thought Leadership
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PL/SQL
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle