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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 504 579
Rank change year-on-year -104 +75 +55
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 26 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.051% 0.023%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.73% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 1
10th Percentile £402 £480 -
25th Percentile £525 £500 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +71.43% -40.68%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £375
90th Percentile £680 £735 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £350
% change year-on-year - +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 3,539 2,450 3,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 8.27% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,989 1,379 1,853
10th Percentile £363 £397 £355
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 59 124
10th Percentile £22.81 £19.64 £14.71
25th Percentile £31.50 £32.25 £21.81
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £71.91 £73.75 £56.70
90th Percentile £90.40 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.42% +50.00% -24.65%

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 16 June 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 15 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 16 June 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 -107 21 £565 -7.76% 10
UK excluding London -94 16 £600 - 9
North of England -66 8 £583 -2.92% 3
Work from Home -27 7 £558 -14.23% 5
London -79 7 £550 -14.56% 6
Yorkshire -50 5 £583 - 1
North West -40 2 - - 2
East of England - 2 £700 -
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
Midlands - 2 £463 - 1
South East -59 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £650 -
Scotland - 1 £290 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -
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%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (3.85%) Eloqua
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) OCI
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.69%) PaaS
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Apigee
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle Database
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (7.69%) OLTP
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 3 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
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 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) DBA
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Service Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Head of Applications
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Code
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%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (15.38%) Contract Management
3 4 (15.38%) Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (11.54%) Agile
4 3 (11.54%) Batch Processing
4 3 (11.54%) ERP
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Key Management
5 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Regression Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Release Management
5 2 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) ProC
2 2 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
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%) Prometheus
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%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Hyperion
3 1 (3.85%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Workday