Oracle APEX Contracts

Oracle Application Express (APEX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Oracle APEX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle APEX over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 554 645
Rank change year-on-year +36 +91 +118
Contract jobs citing Oracle APEX 18 37 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.086% 0.066%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.70% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 18
10th Percentile £400 £381 £407
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £471 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +10.73% -15.00%
75th Percentile £455 £550 £550
90th Percentile £568 £600 £816
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £425 £420
% change year-on-year +0.59% +1.19% -4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Oracle APEX falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Oracle APEX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle APEX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle APEX in the UK

Oracle APEX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle APEX.

Daily rate trend for Oracle APEX in the UK

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle APEX over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle APEX in the UK

Oracle APEX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle APEX.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle APEX in the UK

Oracle APEX
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle APEX within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Work from Home +33 10 £425 - 27
UK excluding London +29 10 £428 +0.59% 27
England +45 9 £425 - 47
Scotland -4 4 £415 -18.82% 1
South West +37 3 £506 +7.09% 3
London +35 2 £415 -27.83% 21
Midlands +9 2 £425 - 10
East Midlands -1 2 £425 - 2
South East +53 1 - - 3

Oracle APEX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) Rekognition
3 1 (5.56%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DKIM
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Database
2 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (11.11%) GIS
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (5.56%) Hudson
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Back Office
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UI/UX Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) CSS
2 7 (38.89%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (5.56%) Ajax
5 1 (5.56%) jQuery
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) API Development
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Data Design
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
6 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (11.11%) User Experience
6 2 (11.11%) UX Design
6 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) PL/SQL
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Apex Code
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 4 (22.22%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Adobe