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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 461 483
Rank change year-on-year -30 +22 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 79 90 146
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 51 110
10th Percentile £434 £413 £413
25th Percentile £494 £438 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £588
90th Percentile £625 £700 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +18.42% -9.52% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,290 34,016 43,872
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.86% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,492 20,527 29,813
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,873 1,272 1,545
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.45 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.26%

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 15 November 2025.

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 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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 -45 63 £550 +4.76% 9
Work from Home -2 34 £550 +1.38% 12
London -19 34 £525 -4.55% 4
UK excluding London -35 28 £563 +18.42% 9
South East +21 23 £583 +15.06% 4
South West -5 2 £525 +16.67% 2
East Midlands -17 2 £556 +30.88% 1
Midlands -34 2 £556 +30.88% 1
Scotland -11 1 £450 -14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, 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 79 (100.00%) Oracle
2 58 (73.42%) SQL
3 42 (53.16%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (48.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 38 (48.10%) PL/SQL
5 37 (46.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 37 (46.84%) Oracle Reports
6 23 (29.11%) ERP
7 18 (22.78%) Agile
7 18 (22.78%) OCI
8 17 (21.52%) Data Modelling
9 16 (20.25%) Oracle EBS
9 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.25%) REST
10 15 (18.99%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (18.99%) Workflow
11 14 (17.72%) Oracle Database
11 14 (17.72%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (16.46%) Oracle EBS R12
13 12 (15.19%) Java
13 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
13 12 (15.19%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (15.19%) Oracle Payables
14 11 (13.92%) Migration
14 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
15 10 (12.66%) Oracle Forms
15 10 (12.66%) Oracle General Ledger
15 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
15 10 (12.66%) Scrum
15 10 (12.66%) SOAP

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 (18.99%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.80%) Apache
4 2 (2.53%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.53%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (16.46%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (15.19%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (15.19%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (12.66%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (11.39%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (7.59%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (6.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (5.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (3.80%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (3.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (3.80%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (3.80%) SAP ERP
10 2 (2.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (1.27%) Cloudability
11 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (1.27%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (1.27%) Oracle FAH
11 1 (1.27%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (1.27%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.78%) OCI
2 3 (3.80%) Azure
2 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (3.80%) PaaS
3 2 (2.53%) AWS
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.27%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.27%) GitHub
4 1 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.27%) MinIO
4 1 (1.27%) SaaS
4 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 37 (46.84%) Oracle Reports
2 14 (17.72%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.27%) Big Data
7 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.27%) GIS
7 1 (1.27%) Metadata
7 1 (1.27%) OLAP
7 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (10.13%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.27%) Git
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 30 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 27 (34.18%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.39%) General Ledger
3 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.13%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.80%) Billing
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Local Government
8 1 (1.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (20.25%) REST
3 10 (12.66%) SOAP
4 8 (10.13%) jQuery
4 8 (10.13%) XML
5 7 (8.86%) JSON
6 6 (7.59%) CSS
6 6 (7.59%) HTML
7 5 (6.33%) Middleware
7 5 (6.33%) XSL
8 4 (5.06%) OAuth
8 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.80%) .NET
9 3 (3.80%) Ajax
9 3 (3.80%) RESTful
9 3 (3.80%) Swagger
9 3 (3.80%) Web Services
10 2 (2.53%) Java EE
10 2 (2.53%) JSP
11 1 (1.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.33%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Unix
2 3 (3.80%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Solaris
3 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (29.11%) ERP
3 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 17 (21.52%) Data Modelling
5 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.99%) Workflow
7 14 (17.72%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (13.92%) Migration
9 10 (12.66%) Scrum
9 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.39%) SOA
11 7 (8.86%) Accounts Payable
11 7 (8.86%) Information Security
11 7 (8.86%) Information Security Management
11 7 (8.86%) SDLC
11 7 (8.86%) Security Management
12 6 (7.59%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (7.59%) DevOps
12 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (73.42%) SQL
2 38 (48.10%) PL/SQL
3 12 (15.19%) Java
3 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.13%) C#
5 7 (8.86%) Groovy
6 4 (5.06%) PHP
7 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.53%) Python
9 1 (1.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) COBIT
1 7 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.86%) NIST
2 3 (3.80%) SLA
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.27%) CEMLI
2 1 (1.27%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 79 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.80%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.53%) Teradata
4 1 (1.27%) IBM
4 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.27%) Vertica
4 1 (1.27%) VMware