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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 421 471
Rank change year-on-year -89 +50 +86
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 119 100 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.38% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 92
10th Percentile £406 £281 £400
25th Percentile £431 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -9.51%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £579
90th Percentile £638 £765 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £378 £450
% change year-on-year +34.66% -16.00% -14.29%
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 45,082 26,443 39,660
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.30% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,504 17,178 25,818
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,000 1,028 2,760
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.09 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.63 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.35% -36.75% -5.88%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -94 101 £509 -3.51% 13
UK excluding London -57 79 £509 +34.66% 12
South East -27 43 £550 +4.76% 2
Work from Home -53 37 £500 +5.26% 9
London -79 28 £475 -17.39% 3
North of England -64 13 £625 +16.28% 3
Midlands -52 12 £448 +5.47% 5
North West -33 8 £485 -19.17% 3
Scotland -18 6 £325 +8.33% 2
West Midlands - 6 £438 - 4
East Midlands -24 5 £525 +23.53% 1
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 -
Northern Ireland +3 1 - -
South West -26 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 45 (37.82%) Security Cleared
3 43 (36.13%) SC Cleared
4 41 (34.45%) SQL
5 36 (30.25%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (27.73%) Performance Tuning
7 30 (25.21%) PL/SQL
8 28 (23.53%) OCI
9 27 (22.69%) ETL
9 27 (22.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (21.01%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (20.17%) Analytics
11 24 (20.17%) ERP
12 22 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (15.13%) Migration
13 18 (15.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 17 (14.29%) Data Modelling
15 15 (12.61%) REST
16 14 (11.76%) Oracle Database
16 14 (11.76%) Oracle ODI
17 13 (10.92%) Data Migration
18 12 (10.08%) Oracle EBS
19 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
20 10 (8.40%) Agile
20 10 (8.40%) Batch Processing
20 10 (8.40%) Oracle Application Server
20 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
21 9 (7.56%) OLTP
21 9 (7.56%) Oracle ERP
21 9 (7.56%) Validation

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 10 (8.40%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.84%) SAS
3 1 (0.84%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (7.56%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.84%) BigMachines
6 1 (0.84%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.53%) OCI
2 8 (6.72%) AWS
3 7 (5.88%) Oracle CX
4 5 (4.20%) SaaS
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (3.36%) Collibra
6 2 (1.68%) Azure
6 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.68%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.84%) GCP
7 1 (0.84%) IaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) PaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) FTP
2 1 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.25%) Oracle Reports
2 25 (21.01%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (15.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 14 (11.76%) Oracle Database
4 14 (11.76%) Oracle ODI
5 9 (7.56%) OLTP
6 5 (4.20%) Metadata
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.68%) Power BI
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.68%) Tableau
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.84%) MySQL
9 1 (0.84%) OLAP
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.84%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.84%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) GitLab
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle APEX
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.52%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Postman
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.84%) ERwin
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (15.97%) Finance
2 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Local Government
5 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.04%) Retail
6 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Aviation
7 2 (1.68%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Banking
8 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.84%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (12.61%) REST
3 8 (6.72%) JSON
3 8 (6.72%) SOAP
4 6 (5.04%) HTML
4 6 (5.04%) XML
5 5 (4.20%) CSS
6 4 (3.36%) .NET
6 4 (3.36%) Middleware
6 4 (3.36%) OAuth
6 4 (3.36%) Web Services
7 3 (2.52%) RESTful
7 3 (2.52%) XSLT
8 2 (1.68%) Ajax
8 2 (1.68%) HTML5
8 2 (1.68%) jQuery
8 2 (1.68%) JWT
8 2 (1.68%) Node.js
8 2 (1.68%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.84%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.36%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.52%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Linux
1 2 (1.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (22.69%) ETL
3 24 (20.17%) Analytics
3 24 (20.17%) ERP
4 22 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (15.13%) Migration
6 17 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 13 (10.92%) Data Migration
8 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.40%) Agile
9 10 (8.40%) Batch Processing
9 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.56%) Validation
11 8 (6.72%) Business Analytics
11 8 (6.72%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.72%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
12 7 (5.88%) Decision-Making
13 5 (4.20%) Collaborative Working
13 5 (4.20%) DevOps
13 5 (4.20%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.45%) SQL
2 30 (25.21%) PL/SQL
3 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.20%) ProC
4 5 (4.20%) Python
5 4 (3.36%) C#
5 4 (3.36%) Java
5 4 (3.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.68%) C
7 1 (0.84%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (37.82%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.68%) Degree
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) SLA
3 2 (1.68%) COBIT
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) PMO
4 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.84%) SELinux
3 1 (0.84%) systemd
Vendors
1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (5.04%) Talend
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.68%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) ATG
6 1 (0.84%) Denodo
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) Informatica
6 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.84%) Siebel