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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 501 560
Rank change year-on-year -115 +59 +126
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 12 26 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.089% 0.056%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.37% 1.09% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 12
10th Percentile £464 £456 £544
25th Percentile £500 £475 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -14.51% +15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £731
90th Percentile £645 £729 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £563 £650
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +20.93%

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 3,222 2,379 3,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.46% 8.10% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,838 1,325 2,028
10th Percentile £360 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £658 £669
90th Percentile £738 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 54 121
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.27 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.75 £40.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +33.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.30 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £43.12
% change year-on-year -5.83% +39.16% -12.01%

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 17 March 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 9 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 17 March 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 7 £510 -9.73% 14
UK excluding London -96 6 £600 +6.67% 9
North of England -66 3 £600 -
North West -32 2 - -
London -55 2 £510 -4.23% 6
South East -44 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 £440 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) OLTP
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Local Government
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Applications Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (25.00%) Key Management
1 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (16.67%) Order to Cash
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Personalization
2 2 (16.67%) SDLC
2 2 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (8.33%) ERP
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) ProC
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Workday