Oracle Application Server Contract Job Trends

Oracle Application Server (OAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Application Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 559 620
Rank change year-on-year +2 +61 +169
Contract jobs citing Oracle Application Server 11 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.003% 0.029%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.31% 0.025% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £349 - £475
25th Percentile £368 £506 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £588
90th Percentile £508 - £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -8.70%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Oracle Application Server 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,581 4,070 4,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 10.86% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 2,557 3,282
10th Percentile £280 £263 £251
25th Percentile £383 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £470
% change year-on-year -2.17% -2.13% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 75 150
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.66 £16.07
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.33 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +23.33% +39.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £55.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.42% +100.00% +48.85%

Oracle Application Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Application Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Application Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Application Server

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Application Server over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Application Server in the UK

Oracle Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Application Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Application Server

Oracle Application Server
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Application Server within the UK over the 6 months to 17 October 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
England +14 11 £475 -7.32% 4
UK excluding London -4 10 £475 -7.32% 3
South West +24 7 £500 -2.44% 1
East Midlands - 3 £358 -
Midlands - 3 £358 -
London - 1 £475 - 1

Oracle Application Server
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Snowflake
2 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
1 3 (27.27%) HTTPS
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle ODI
2 7 (63.64%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (63.64%) Power BI
2 7 (63.64%) Star Schema
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) DBeaver
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) ETL Tester
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (27.27%) RAML
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Replication
2 3 (27.27%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (72.73%) ETL
3 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 7 (63.64%) Dimensional Modelling
3 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) API Development
4 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft