Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 450 439
Rank change year-on-year -41 -11 +95
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 172 105 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 82 90
10th Percentile £406 £284 £400
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £750 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £460
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.54% -15.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.01 - -
Median hourly rate £36.71 - -
75th Percentile £39.41 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 48,898 30,175 37,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.56% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,518 19,205 24,201
10th Percentile £329 £284 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,323 1,465 2,247
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.72%

Oracle Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Oracle Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle Developer job vacancies in the UK

Oracle Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Developer over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Developer in the UK

Oracle Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle Developer job vacancies in the UK

Oracle Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 July 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 -50 138 £517 -8.54% 19
UK excluding London -29 113 £500 +8.11% 19
Work from Home -34 53 £475 -15.03% 12
South East -40 48 £500 -16.67% 6
London -63 40 £488 -14.85% 5
South West -21 21 £565 +34.20% 6
Midlands -38 17 £448 -18.50%
Scotland -8 16 £325 +8.33% 2
East Midlands -7 8 £525 -4.55%
West Midlands - 8 £438 -
East of England - 6 £625 - 4
North of England -73 5 £625 +16.28% 1
North East - 4 £625 -
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -
Yorkshire -47 1 - - 1

Oracle Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 July 2026, Oracle Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle Developer in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Oracle
2 81 (47.09%) Security Cleared
3 77 (44.77%) SC Cleared
4 69 (40.12%) SQL
5 57 (33.14%) PL/SQL
6 51 (29.65%) Oracle Reports
7 40 (23.26%) Performance Tuning
8 37 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (21.51%) OCI
8 37 (21.51%) Oracle Fusion
9 33 (19.19%) ETL
10 32 (18.60%) Analytics
10 32 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
11 28 (16.28%) Data Modelling
11 28 (16.28%) Oracle Database
12 26 (15.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 25 (14.53%) ERP
14 23 (13.37%) Migration
15 22 (12.79%) Agile
16 20 (11.63%) Oracle ODI
17 18 (10.47%) Oracle Forms
18 17 (9.88%) Java
18 17 (9.88%) Oracle EBS
19 15 (8.72%) Oracle Application Server
19 15 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (8.72%) Validation
20 14 (8.14%) Business Analytics
20 14 (8.14%) DevOps
20 14 (8.14%) REST
21 13 (7.56%) Data Migration

Oracle Developer Skill Set
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 15 (8.72%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (5.23%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (5.23%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.65%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (9.88%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (5.81%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (4.07%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (3.49%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (3.49%) Oracle FAH
6 5 (2.91%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (2.91%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (2.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle Payroll
8 3 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.58%) BigMachines
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.51%) OCI
2 7 (4.07%) AWS
2 7 (4.07%) Oracle CX
3 5 (2.91%) Azure
3 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.33%) SaaS
5 3 (1.74%) PaaS
6 2 (1.16%) IaaS
6 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.58%) Collibra
7 1 (0.58%) GitHub
7 1 (0.58%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) FTP
1 2 (1.16%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.65%) Oracle Reports
2 32 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (16.28%) Oracle Database
4 26 (15.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 20 (11.63%) Oracle ODI
6 8 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.49%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.16%) Siebel EIM
10 2 (1.16%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.58%) Ingres
11 1 (0.58%) Metadata
11 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.58%) Power BI
11 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (5.23%) JIRA
3 8 (4.65%) Git
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.33%) Gradle
5 4 (2.33%) JDeveloper
5 4 (2.33%) Subversion
6 3 (1.74%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.74%) PVCS
7 2 (1.16%) Postman
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.58%) GitLab
8 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (18.60%) Finance
2 21 (12.21%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.98%) Banking
6 7 (4.07%) Local Government
7 6 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.33%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.74%) Military
10 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Front Office
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (8.14%) REST
3 12 (6.98%) XML
4 7 (4.07%) JSON
4 7 (4.07%) SOAP
5 6 (3.49%) Spring
5 6 (3.49%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.91%) .NET
6 5 (2.91%) HTML
6 5 (2.91%) Kafka
6 5 (2.91%) React
7 4 (2.33%) CSS
7 4 (2.33%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.33%) OAuth
7 4 (2.33%) Redux
7 4 (2.33%) Web Services
8 3 (1.74%) Middleware
8 3 (1.74%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.74%) RESTful
8 3 (1.74%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.65%) Linux
1 8 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.26%) Performance Tuning
2 37 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (19.19%) ETL
4 32 (18.60%) Analytics
5 28 (16.28%) Data Modelling
6 25 (14.53%) ERP
7 23 (13.37%) Migration
8 22 (12.79%) Agile
9 15 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.72%) Validation
10 14 (8.14%) Business Analytics
10 14 (8.14%) DevOps
11 13 (7.56%) Data Migration
12 11 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (5.81%) SDLC
14 9 (5.23%) Workflow
15 8 (4.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 8 (4.65%) Root Cause Analysis
16 7 (4.07%) ETL Development
16 7 (4.07%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.12%) SQL
2 57 (33.14%) PL/SQL
3 17 (9.88%) Java
4 10 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.91%) C#
6 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.74%) C
7 3 (1.74%) ProC
7 3 (1.74%) Python
8 1 (0.58%) Groovy
8 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (47.09%) Security Cleared
2 77 (44.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.33%) Degree
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.74%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) SLA
3 2 (1.16%) COBIT
3 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.16%) NIST
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) PMO
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.33%) Control-M
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) SELinux
3 1 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 172 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (4.07%) IBM
2 7 (4.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.07%) Talend
3 2 (1.16%) Siebel
3 2 (1.16%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.58%) ATG
4 1 (0.58%) Citrix
4 1 (0.58%) Denodo
4 1 (0.58%) Informatica
4 1 (0.58%) jBASE
4 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.58%) Temenos