Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 420 494
Rank change year-on-year -96 +74 +76
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 96 95 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 68 93
10th Percentile £406 £274 £385
25th Percentile £463 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £476
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -0.11% -13.55%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £590
90th Percentile £660 £758 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £350 £438
% change year-on-year +61.07% -20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 40,988 26,987 41,095
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 92.82% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,540 17,745 26,925
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,566 944 2,532
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.72 £20.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.91 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £31.88 £32.90
% change year-on-year +25.47% -3.09% -21.32%

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 31 March 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 13 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 31 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 -91 85 £550 +3.29% 14
UK excluding London -89 57 £564 +61.07% 12
South East -27 36 £570 +62.86% 8
London -69 30 £500 -11.11% 5
Work from Home -42 26 £540 +17.39% 3
North of England -60 13 £625 +16.28%
North West -28 8 £485 -19.17%
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 3 £525 -
Scotland -16 2 £415 +38.33% 1
East Midlands -38 2 £525 +23.53% 1
Midlands -66 2 £525 +23.53% 2
South West -32 1 £500 -4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 96 (100.00%) Oracle
2 49 (51.04%) SQL
3 39 (40.63%) Oracle Reports
4 37 (38.54%) PL/SQL
5 36 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 31 (32.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 30 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (27.08%) OCI
9 21 (21.88%) Migration
10 20 (20.83%) ERP
10 20 (20.83%) Oracle Database
11 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
12 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (17.71%) SC Cleared
13 15 (15.63%) ETL
14 13 (13.54%) Data Migration
14 13 (13.54%) Data Modelling
14 13 (13.54%) Oracle EBS
15 10 (10.42%) Analytics
15 10 (10.42%) Oracle Forms
15 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (9.38%) Agile
16 9 (9.38%) Batch Processing
16 9 (9.38%) OLTP
16 9 (9.38%) Oracle ERP
16 9 (9.38%) REST
17 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
17 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
17 8 (8.33%) Oracle Payables

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 4 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (9.38%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (7.29%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (7.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (6.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (6.25%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (5.21%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (5.21%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (1.04%) Cloudability
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.08%) OCI
2 5 (5.21%) AWS
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (4.17%) Collibra
4 3 (3.13%) Azure
4 3 (3.13%) SaaS
5 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.04%) GCP
6 1 (1.04%) IaaS
6 1 (1.04%) PaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.63%) Oracle Reports
2 31 (32.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (20.83%) Oracle Database
4 9 (9.38%) OLTP
5 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.25%) Metadata
6 5 (5.21%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (4.17%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.08%) OLAP
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.04%) MySQL
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.04%) Power BI
10 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.17%) GitLab
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (4.17%) Toad
3 2 (2.08%) Postman
4 1 (1.04%) ERwin
4 1 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 21 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Local Government
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.21%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Aviation
9 2 (2.08%) Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.04%) Military
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.38%) REST
3 7 (7.29%) SOAP
4 5 (5.21%) XML
5 4 (4.17%) .NET
5 4 (4.17%) Middleware
5 4 (4.17%) Web Services
6 3 (3.13%) JSON
7 2 (2.08%) CSS
7 2 (2.08%) HTML
7 2 (2.08%) JWT
7 2 (2.08%) OAuth
7 2 (2.08%) XSLT
8 1 (1.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.17%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Unix
2 1 (1.04%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (21.88%) Migration
4 20 (20.83%) ERP
5 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.63%) ETL
7 13 (13.54%) Data Migration
7 13 (13.54%) Data Modelling
8 10 (10.42%) Analytics
8 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.38%) Agile
9 9 (9.38%) Batch Processing
10 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
11 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (5.21%) CI/CD
12 5 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (5.21%) Data Governance
12 5 (5.21%) DevOps
12 5 (5.21%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.04%) SQL
2 37 (38.54%) PL/SQL
3 8 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 5 (5.21%) ProC
4 5 (5.21%) Python
5 4 (4.17%) C#
5 4 (4.17%) Perl
5 4 (4.17%) PHP
6 2 (2.08%) C
6 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) Bash
7 1 (1.04%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
3 2 (2.08%) COBIT
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.04%) CEMLI
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 96 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) Teradata