OC4J Contract Job Trends

Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OC4J skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OC4J 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OC4J falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,847 7,988 10,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.93% 21.85% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,198 5,059 7,561
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £668
90th Percentile £720 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 122 189
10th Percentile £29.70 £23.93 £36.13
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% +17.12% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

OC4J
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OC4J relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OC4J job vacancy trend in the UK

OC4J
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OC4J.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OC4J

OC4J
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OC4J.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OC4J

OC4J
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OC4J within the UK over the 6 months to 2 November 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
London - 3 £350 - 1
England - 3 £350 - 1

OC4J
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) BusinessWorks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO Developer
2 2 (66.67%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JMS
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) WSDL
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSD
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) RUP
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) XPath
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) BEA
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO