Oracle Applications Contract Job Trends

Oracle Applications (Oracle Apps)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Applications skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 534 560
Rank change year-on-year -112 +26 +54
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 26 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.052% 0.033%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.67% 0.60% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 2
10th Percentile £310 £474 £348
25th Percentile £483 £575 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +34.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £506
90th Percentile £744 £726 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £600 £350
% change year-on-year -5.83% +71.43% -41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,864 2,839 2,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.20% 8.61% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 1,621 1,666
10th Percentile £360 £363 £351
25th Percentile £456 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £665 £676
90th Percentile £746 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 57 86
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.52 £23.88
25th Percentile £26.41 £26.72 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -10.02% -16.15%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.30 £79.50 £65.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £51.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +14.43% -20.34%

Oracle Applications
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Applications job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Applications
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Applications over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Applications in the UK

Oracle Applications
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle Applications
Top 14 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 Applications within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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 -116 22 £565 -6.80% 7
UK excluding London -95 14 £565 -5.83% 10
London -66 9 £550 -15.38% 2
Work from Home -54 7 £558 -14.23% 9
North of England -64 5 £565 -5.83% 2
Yorkshire -40 4 £565 -
Midlands - 3 £463 - 1
South East -67 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
East of England - 2 £700 -
South West -50 1 £650 -
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 1
Scotland - 1 £290 -
North East - 1 - -

Oracle Applications
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 2 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (3.85%) Eloqua
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) OCI
2 2 (7.69%) PaaS
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Apigee
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle Database
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
3 1 (3.85%) Toad
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) DBA
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Applications Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Head of Applications
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) High Availability
1 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
2 5 (19.23%) Change Management
3 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (15.38%) Contract Management
3 4 (15.38%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (11.54%) Agile
4 3 (11.54%) ERP
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.69%) Change Control
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) ETL
5 2 (7.69%) Functional Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Regression Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Release Management
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) IFRS
2 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Hyperion
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow