Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 438 486
Rank change year-on-year -85 +48 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 105 90 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 64 88
10th Percentile £406 £274 £385
25th Percentile £459 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £477
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -0.31% -13.36%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £612
90th Percentile £649 £775 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £350 £430
% change year-on-year +57.14% -18.60% -18.10%
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 42,201 27,101 40,725
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 92.74% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,267 17,830 26,650
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% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,670 965 2,551
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -7.16% -23.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.68 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.14% -12.53% -17.38%

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 8 April 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 14 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 8 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 -82 90 £540 +1.89% 14
UK excluding London -77 65 £550 +57.14% 12
South East -14 40 £565 +61.43% 8
London -73 30 £500 -24.53% 5
Work from Home -34 28 £540 +17.39% 3
North of England -53 13 £625 +16.28%
North West -26 8 £485 -19.17%
North East - 5 £625 -
Scotland -14 4 £415 +38.33% 1
Midlands -62 3 £525 +23.53% 2
East of England - 3 £525 -
East Midlands -31 2 £525 +23.53% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 1
South West -35 1 £500 +9.65%

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Oracle
2 49 (46.67%) SQL
3 42 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
4 37 (35.24%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (35.24%) PL/SQL
5 36 (34.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (30.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 32 (30.48%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (26.67%) OCI
8 22 (20.95%) ERP
8 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
9 21 (20.00%) Migration
10 19 (18.10%) Oracle Database
10 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
11 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (16.19%) ETL
13 14 (13.33%) Data Modelling
14 13 (12.38%) Data Migration
14 13 (12.38%) Oracle EBS
15 12 (11.43%) Analytics
16 10 (9.52%) Batch Processing
16 10 (9.52%) Oracle ERP
16 10 (9.52%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (9.52%) REST
16 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (8.57%) Agile
17 9 (8.57%) OLTP
17 9 (8.57%) SOAP
18 8 (7.62%) Collaborative Working
18 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse

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 (3.81%) Oracle Application Server
1 4 (3.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.95%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle 11i
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (1.90%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.95%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.95%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.67%) OCI
2 5 (4.76%) AWS
3 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.81%) Azure
3 4 (3.81%) Collibra
4 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.86%) Oracle CX
4 3 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.95%) GCP
5 1 (0.95%) IaaS
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) PaaS
5 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) FTP
2 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 32 (30.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 19 (18.10%) Oracle Database
4 9 (8.57%) OLTP
5 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.71%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (4.76%) Metadata
7 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.81%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.90%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.95%) MySQL
11 1 (0.95%) OLAP
11 1 (0.95%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.95%) Power BI
11 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.81%) GitLab
2 4 (3.81%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.81%) Toad
3 2 (1.90%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) ERwin
4 1 (0.95%) Git
4 1 (0.95%) JIRA
4 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (26.67%) Finance
2 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Local Government
5 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.76%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.90%) Aviation
9 2 (1.90%) Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (9.52%) REST
3 9 (8.57%) SOAP
4 6 (5.71%) Middleware
5 5 (4.76%) Web Services
5 5 (4.76%) XML
6 4 (3.81%) .NET
7 3 (2.86%) JSON
8 2 (1.90%) CSS
8 2 (1.90%) HTML
8 2 (1.90%) JWT
8 2 (1.90%) OAuth
8 2 (1.90%) XSLT
9 1 (0.95%) Java SE
9 1 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.81%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (1.90%) Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.24%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (30.48%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (20.95%) ERP
4 21 (20.00%) Migration
5 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.19%) ETL
7 14 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 13 (12.38%) Data Migration
9 12 (11.43%) Analytics
10 10 (9.52%) Batch Processing
10 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (8.57%) Agile
12 8 (7.62%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (6.67%) Decision-Making
14 6 (5.71%) CI/CD
14 6 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (5.71%) DevOps
14 6 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (5.71%) User Acceptance Testing
15 5 (4.76%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.67%) SQL
2 37 (35.24%) PL/SQL
3 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.76%) ProC
4 5 (4.76%) Python
5 4 (3.81%) C#
5 4 (3.81%) Perl
5 4 (3.81%) PHP
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) C
8 1 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.95%) Java
8 1 (0.95%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) SLA
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) COBIT
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.95%) CEMLI
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.95%) SELinux
3 1 (0.95%) systemd
Vendors
1 105 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.81%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.95%) Teradata