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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 455 470
Rank change year-on-year -54 +15 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 91 70 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 48 104
10th Percentile £404 £292 £400
25th Percentile £475 £389 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -6.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £578
90th Percentile £648 £608 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £413 £470
% change year-on-year +36.97% -12.23% -5.05%

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 37,174 28,501 41,310
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.92% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,390 17,648 27,150
10th Percentile £305 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,257 809 2,323
10th Percentile £14.57 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.11 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% -2.54% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61.84 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.58
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.64% +1.64%

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 18 February 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 10 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 18 February 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 -48 78 £540 +8.00% 15
UK excluding London -66 41 £565 +36.97% 11
London -27 35 £500 -6.54% 5
Work from Home -24 30 £525 +22.09% 9
South East -8 26 £575 +64.29% 4
North of England -46 11 £625 +75.56% 2
North West -21 8 £485 +36.24%
North East - 3 £625 - 2
South West -25 2 £525 +5.00%
East of England - 2 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 91 (100.00%) Oracle
2 53 (58.24%) SQL
3 39 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 37 (40.66%) PL/SQL
5 35 (38.46%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (36.26%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (31.87%) OCI
8 28 (30.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 25 (27.47%) ERP
10 21 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
11 20 (21.98%) Oracle Database
12 17 (18.68%) Migration
12 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (18.68%) REST
13 16 (17.58%) Agile
14 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
14 13 (14.29%) SOAP
15 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
16 11 (12.09%) Oracle EBS
16 11 (12.09%) Oracle ERP
16 11 (12.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 11 (12.09%) SOA
17 10 (10.99%) Data Modelling
17 10 (10.99%) Oracle Forms
18 9 (9.89%) Collaborative Working
18 9 (9.89%) Data Migration
18 9 (9.89%) ETL
18 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
18 9 (9.89%) OLTP
18 9 (9.89%) Oracle Workflow

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 11 (12.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (9.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (8.79%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (6.59%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (6.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (5.49%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (2.20%) Cloudability
8 2 (2.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (2.20%) SAP ERP
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) OCI
2 5 (5.49%) AWS
3 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (4.40%) Azure
3 4 (4.40%) Collibra
4 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) PaaS
5 2 (2.20%) SaaS
5 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.46%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (30.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (21.98%) Oracle Database
4 9 (9.89%) OLTP
5 6 (6.59%) Metadata
6 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.40%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.30%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.20%) OLAP
9 2 (2.20%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.10%) MySQL
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.10%) Power BI
10 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (4.40%) Toad
3 2 (2.20%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) ERwin
4 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 31 (34.07%) Finance
2 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Local Government
7 5 (5.49%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.30%) Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Billing
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.30%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Aviation
9 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.10%) Law
10 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (18.68%) REST
3 13 (14.29%) SOAP
4 8 (8.79%) XML
5 6 (6.59%) Middleware
6 5 (5.49%) JSON
7 4 (4.40%) .NET
7 4 (4.40%) CSS
7 4 (4.40%) HTML
7 4 (4.40%) jQuery
7 4 (4.40%) Web Services
7 4 (4.40%) XSL
8 1 (1.10%) JWT
8 1 (1.10%) OAuth
8 1 (1.10%) RESTful
8 1 (1.10%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
1 5 (5.49%) Virtual Team
2 4 (4.40%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.26%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (27.47%) ERP
3 21 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (18.68%) Migration
4 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.58%) Agile
6 11 (12.09%) SOA
7 10 (10.99%) Data Modelling
8 9 (9.89%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (9.89%) Data Migration
8 9 (9.89%) ETL
8 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.89%) Workflow
9 7 (7.69%) Batch Processing
9 7 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.59%) Data Analysis
10 6 (6.59%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.59%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.24%) SQL
2 37 (40.66%) PL/SQL
3 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.89%) Shell Script
4 8 (8.79%) C#
5 7 (7.69%) Groovy
6 5 (5.49%) Java
6 5 (5.49%) ProC
6 5 (5.49%) Python
7 4 (4.40%) Perl
7 4 (4.40%) PHP
8 2 (2.20%) C
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) SLA
2 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) COBIT
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
3 1 (1.10%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.10%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.20%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) Teradata
5 1 (1.10%) Google