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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 516 560
Rank change year-on-year -59 +44 +133
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 13 26 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.078% 0.081%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.41% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 20
10th Percentile £454 £428 £450
25th Percentile £475 £469 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -18.37% +15.02%
75th Percentile £593 £556 £713
90th Percentile £642 £573 £789
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +11.50% -23.08% +22.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £90.00

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 3,151 2,505 3,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.49% 7.55% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 1,324 1,908
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £664 £675
90th Percentile £760 £761 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £529 £525
% change year-on-year +4.02% +0.71% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 55 92
10th Percentile £18.76 £22.27 £22.06
25th Percentile £25.98 £30.21 £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £91.19 £80.75 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.48 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.80% -18.25% +51.45%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -47 7 £475 -5.00% 15
UK excluding London -48 5 £558 +11.50% 10
London -24 2 £510 +2.00% 6
North West - 2 - - 2
North of England - 2 - - 4
Work from Home -15 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £440 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -
South East - 1 - - 3

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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) MinIO
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) OLTP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Local Government
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Dutch Language
4 1 (7.69%) German Language
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) EDI
1 1 (7.69%) EJB
1 1 (7.69%) Java EE
1 1 (7.69%) Java SE
1 1 (7.69%) JSP
1 1 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) OpenLayers
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Code
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Solaris
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Batch Processing
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) Key Management
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
2 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) ERP
3 2 (15.38%) Order to Cash
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Personalization
3 2 (15.38%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (15.38%) Validation
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PL/SQL
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) ProC
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) C
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Korn
5 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware