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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 432 492
Rank change year-on-year -88 +60 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 110 91 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 86
10th Percentile £406 £274 £393
25th Percentile £450 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -0.52% -13.18%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £617
90th Percentile £645 £775 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £350 £430
% change year-on-year +55.71% -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 42,225 27,079 40,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.67% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,249 17,802 26,661
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 969 2,573
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -9.60% -21.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.13 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -13.71% -16.82%

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 11 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 11 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 -67 92 £540 +2.37% 14
UK excluding London -76 68 £545 +55.71% 12
South East -23 41 £565 +61.43% 8
Work from Home -36 30 £540 +17.39% 3
London -76 30 £500 -24.53% 5
North of England -57 13 £625 +16.28%
North West -23 8 £485 -19.17%
Scotland -12 5 £370 +23.33% 1
North East - 5 £625 -
Midlands -63 4 £525 +23.53% 2
East Midlands -40 3 £525 +23.53% 1
East of England - 3 £525 -
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 1
South West -35 1 £500 +42.86%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Oracle
2 52 (47.27%) SQL
3 44 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
4 38 (34.55%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (34.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 38 (34.55%) PL/SQL
5 32 (29.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 32 (29.09%) Performance Tuning
6 30 (27.27%) OCI
7 24 (21.82%) ERP
8 23 (20.91%) Migration
8 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
9 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
10 19 (17.27%) Oracle Database
10 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (16.36%) ETL
12 16 (14.55%) Data Modelling
13 15 (13.64%) Data Migration
13 15 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
14 13 (11.82%) Analytics
15 10 (9.09%) Batch Processing
15 10 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
15 10 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
15 10 (9.09%) REST
15 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (8.18%) Agile
16 9 (8.18%) OLTP
16 9 (8.18%) SOAP
17 8 (7.27%) Collaborative Working

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 (3.64%) Oracle Application Server
1 4 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.73%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.91%) Apache
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (7.27%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle 11i
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (5.45%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (2.73%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (2.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (1.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.91%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.91%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.27%) OCI
2 5 (4.55%) AWS
3 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.64%) Azure
3 4 (3.64%) Collibra
4 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle CX
4 3 (2.73%) SaaS
5 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.91%) GCP
6 1 (0.91%) IaaS
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) PaaS
6 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) FTP
2 1 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 32 (29.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 19 (17.27%) Oracle Database
4 10 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.18%) OLTP
6 7 (6.36%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (4.55%) Metadata
7 5 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.64%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.82%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.82%) Power BI
10 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.82%) Tableau
11 1 (0.91%) MySQL
11 1 (0.91%) OLAP
11 1 (0.91%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.64%) GitLab
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.64%) Toad
3 2 (1.82%) Postman
4 1 (0.91%) ERwin
4 1 (0.91%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) JIRA
4 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (26.36%) Finance
2 22 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.18%) Local Government
4 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.73%) Retail
8 2 (1.82%) Aviation
8 2 (1.82%) Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (34.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (9.09%) REST
3 9 (8.18%) SOAP
4 6 (5.45%) Middleware
5 5 (4.55%) Web Services
5 5 (4.55%) XML
6 4 (3.64%) .NET
7 3 (2.73%) JSON
8 2 (1.82%) CSS
8 2 (1.82%) HTML
8 2 (1.82%) JWT
8 2 (1.82%) OAuth
8 2 (1.82%) XSLT
9 1 (0.91%) Java SE
9 1 (0.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.64%) Legacy Code
2 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Unix
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.55%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (29.09%) Performance Tuning
3 24 (21.82%) ERP
4 23 (20.91%) Migration
5 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.36%) ETL
7 16 (14.55%) Data Modelling
8 15 (13.64%) Data Migration
9 13 (11.82%) Analytics
10 10 (9.09%) Batch Processing
10 10 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (8.18%) Agile
12 8 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (6.36%) Decision-Making
14 6 (5.45%) CI/CD
14 6 (5.45%) DevOps
14 6 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 6 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (5.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.27%) SQL
2 38 (34.55%) PL/SQL
3 8 (7.27%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.55%) ProC
4 5 (4.55%) Python
5 4 (3.64%) C#
5 4 (3.64%) Perl
5 4 (3.64%) PHP
6 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.82%) C
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
8 1 (0.91%) Java
8 1 (0.91%) Korn
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.55%) SLA
2 2 (1.82%) COBIT
2 2 (1.82%) GDPR
2 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) PMO
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.73%) Oracle Identity Management
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (0.91%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.91%) SELinux
4 1 (0.91%) systemd
Vendors
1 110 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (0.91%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Teradata