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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 509 563
Rank change year-on-year -107 +54 +110
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 16 23 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.078% 0.059%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.47% 0.96% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 10
10th Percentile £501 £456 £526
25th Percentile £540 £475 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +20.77%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £759
90th Percentile £698 £729 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +13.04%

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 3,391 2,406 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 8.20% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,349 1,942
10th Percentile £362 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 53 112
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.75 £40.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +58.63% -20.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £87.35 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -5.83% +58.63% -22.81%

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 April 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 11 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 April 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 -114 13 £600 +4.35% 10
UK excluding London -86 8 £675 +12.50% 4
London -73 6 £550 -2.65% 5
North of England -69 3 £600 -
Work from Home -28 2 £550 +22.22%
North West -34 2 - -
East of England - 2 £700 -
South East -56 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £650 -
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 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (6.25%) Eloqua
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) OCI
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) OLTP
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Local Government
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) DBA
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Functional Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Report Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Code
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
1 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
1 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
1 3 (18.75%) ERP
1 3 (18.75%) High Availability
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL
1 3 (18.75%) Key Management
1 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
1 3 (18.75%) Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
2 2 (12.50%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (12.50%) Agile
2 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (12.50%) Change Management
2 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 2 (12.50%) Service Management
2 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) ProC
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Korn
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) IFRS
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Hyperion
4 1 (6.25%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Workday