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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 541 537
Rank change year-on-year -130 -4 +60
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 17 15 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.045% 0.048%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.44% 0.52% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 6
10th Percentile £336 £454 £389
25th Percentile £431 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £638 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +24.39% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £547
90th Percentile £780 £705 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +5.11% -12.00% -16.67%
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 3,874 2,877 2,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 8.67% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,103 1,634 1,462
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 51 72
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.20 £35.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.71% -22.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.20 £85.00 £74.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.93 £38.00 £40.91
% change year-on-year +2.45% -7.12% -27.58%

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 14 October 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 12 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 14 October 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 -118 14 £565 -11.37% 15
UK excluding London -99 10 £463 +5.11% 7
Work from Home -62 6 £565 -13.08% 8
North of England -67 5 £565 - 1
London -100 5 £700 +7.69% 10
Yorkshire -30 4 £565 -
Midlands - 3 £463 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £463 - 2
South East -62 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £325 -
Scotland - 1 £290 - 2
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 3 (17.65%) WebLogic
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.88%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) OCI
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Flyway
4 1 (5.88%) Subversion
4 1 (5.88%) Toad
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) DBA
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) IT Trainer
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Middleware
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) FMCG
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
2 3 (17.65%) Change Management
2 3 (17.65%) Contract Management
2 3 (17.65%) High Availability
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) ERP
3 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Workflow
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Inventory Management
4 1 (5.88%) Order Management
4 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle