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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 438 471
Rank change year-on-year -57 +33 +73
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 163 102 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 78 95
10th Percentile £406 £282 £400
25th Percentile £430 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £589
90th Percentile £638 £758 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% -16.28%
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 48,533 29,683 40,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,422 18,950 25,979
10th Percentile £325 £288 £286
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,255 1,354 2,780
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.87 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +0.50%

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 9 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 9 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 -64 131 £505 -10.71% 30
UK excluding London -52 106 £500 +16.28% 26
Work from Home -32 54 £500 -6.98% 19
South East -25 46 £500 -16.67% 8
London -71 40 £475 -17.03% 5
Midlands -45 17 £448 +5.47% 6
Scotland -12 16 £325 +8.33%
South West -20 16 £565 +34.20% 9
East Midlands -7 8 £525 +23.53% 3
West Midlands - 8 £438 - 3
North of England -76 7 £625 +16.28% 1
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 - 3
North West -42 2 - -
Northern Ireland +6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 163 (100.00%) Oracle
2 74 (45.40%) Security Cleared
3 71 (43.56%) SC Cleared
4 69 (42.33%) SQL
5 57 (34.97%) PL/SQL
6 52 (31.90%) Oracle Reports
7 42 (25.77%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (23.31%) OCI
9 36 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (21.47%) ETL
11 33 (20.25%) Oracle Fusion
12 32 (19.63%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (19.63%) Oracle Database
13 29 (17.79%) Analytics
14 27 (16.56%) Data Modelling
15 24 (14.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 23 (14.11%) ERP
16 23 (14.11%) Migration
17 21 (12.88%) Agile
18 19 (11.66%) Oracle ODI
19 18 (11.04%) Oracle Forms
19 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (9.82%) DevOps
21 15 (9.20%) Data Migration
21 15 (9.20%) Oracle EBS
21 15 (9.20%) REST
22 14 (8.59%) Oracle Application Server
22 14 (8.59%) Validation
23 13 (7.98%) Java
24 12 (7.36%) Business Analytics

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 14 (8.59%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (4.91%) Confluence
2 8 (4.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (4.29%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.23%) nginx
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (9.20%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (5.52%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (4.91%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (3.07%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (3.07%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (3.07%) Oracle FAH
6 4 (2.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (2.45%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 4 (2.45%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (1.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.61%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.31%) OCI
2 8 (4.91%) AWS
3 7 (4.29%) Oracle CX
4 6 (3.68%) Azure
5 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.07%) SaaS
6 3 (1.84%) Collibra
7 2 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.61%) GCP
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.61%) IaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) FTP
1 2 (1.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.90%) Oracle Reports
2 32 (19.63%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (19.63%) Oracle Database
3 24 (14.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 19 (11.66%) Oracle ODI
5 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.68%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (2.45%) Metadata
6 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.23%) OLTP
8 2 (1.23%) Power BI
8 2 (1.23%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.23%) SQLPlus
8 2 (1.23%) Tableau
9 1 (0.61%) OLAP
9 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (11.04%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (6.13%) JIRA
3 9 (5.52%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (4.91%) Git
5 4 (2.45%) JDeveloper
5 4 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.45%) Subversion
6 3 (1.84%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.84%) Postman
6 3 (1.84%) PVCS
7 2 (1.23%) Gradle
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.61%) ERwin
8 1 (0.61%) GitLab
8 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (17.18%) Finance
2 23 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.13%) Banking
6 7 (4.29%) Local Government
7 6 (3.68%) Retail
8 4 (2.45%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Aviation
10 2 (1.23%) Military
10 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Front Office
11 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (9.20%) REST
3 11 (6.75%) XML
4 8 (4.91%) JSON
5 7 (4.29%) .NET
5 7 (4.29%) SOAP
6 6 (3.68%) HTML
7 5 (3.07%) CSS
8 4 (2.45%) OAuth
8 4 (2.45%) RESTful
8 4 (2.45%) Spring
8 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.84%) Kafka
9 3 (1.84%) Middleware
9 3 (1.84%) React
9 3 (1.84%) Web Services
9 3 (1.84%) XSLT
10 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.23%) Ajax
10 2 (1.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.84%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.52%) Linux
1 9 (5.52%) Unix
2 2 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.77%) Performance Tuning
2 36 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (21.47%) ETL
4 29 (17.79%) Analytics
5 27 (16.56%) Data Modelling
6 23 (14.11%) ERP
6 23 (14.11%) Migration
7 21 (12.88%) Agile
8 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.82%) DevOps
10 15 (9.20%) Data Migration
11 14 (8.59%) Validation
12 12 (7.36%) Business Analytics
13 11 (6.75%) SDLC
13 11 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (4.91%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 8 (4.91%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (4.91%) Workflow
15 7 (4.29%) Release Management
15 7 (4.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.33%) SQL
2 57 (34.97%) PL/SQL
3 13 (7.98%) Java
4 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.29%) C#
6 6 (3.68%) Python
7 4 (2.45%) C
7 4 (2.45%) ProC
7 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (45.40%) Security Cleared
2 71 (43.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) Degree
4 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.84%) SLA
3 2 (1.23%) COBIT
3 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) NIST
3 2 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.84%) Oracle Identity Management
1 3 (1.84%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 2 (1.23%) Control-M
3 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) SELinux
3 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 163 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.29%) Talend
4 5 (3.07%) IBM
5 2 (1.23%) Siebel
5 2 (1.23%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.61%) ATG
6 1 (0.61%) Citrix
6 1 (0.61%) Denodo
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) jBASE
6 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.61%) Temenos