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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 484 449
Rank change year-on-year -15 -35 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 187 73 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 52 71
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £431 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £556 £488
% change year-on-year -10.11% +14.10% -9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 50,623 30,078 35,169
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.98% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,851 19,013 21,316
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,956 1,609 1,552
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.30 £20.94
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.31 £74.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.87 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.97% -41.69% -2.05%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -8 154 £500 -9.09% 25
UK excluding London +19 134 £500 -10.11% 17
Work from Home -47 57 £475 -16.52% 19
South East -29 41 £475 -20.83% 3
London -86 38 £525 -2.78% 10
South West -1 36 £565 +36.14%
Scotland -4 19 £323 -33.85% 1
Midlands -32 19 £438 -21.35% 9
East of England - 12 £625 -
West Midlands - 12 £438 - 5
Yorkshire - 7 - - 1
North of England - 7 - - 3
East Midlands -11 6 £525 -5.62% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 187 (100.00%) Oracle
2 89 (47.59%) Security Cleared
3 84 (44.92%) SC Cleared
4 70 (37.43%) SQL
5 61 (32.62%) PL/SQL
6 41 (21.93%) OCI
6 41 (21.93%) Oracle Reports
7 40 (21.39%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (19.25%) Oracle Fusion
9 35 (18.72%) Analytics
10 33 (17.65%) ETL
11 32 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (17.11%) Data Modelling
12 28 (14.97%) Performance Tuning
13 27 (14.44%) Migration
14 26 (13.90%) Agile
14 26 (13.90%) Oracle Database
15 23 (12.30%) Oracle ODI
16 22 (11.76%) Java
17 19 (10.16%) DevOps
18 18 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
19 17 (9.09%) ERP
19 17 (9.09%) Oracle Application Server
19 17 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
20 16 (8.56%) Oracle Forms
21 15 (8.02%) Business Analytics
21 15 (8.02%) Oracle Payroll
22 14 (7.49%) REST
23 13 (6.95%) WebLogic
24 12 (6.42%) Git

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 17 (9.09%) Oracle Application Server
2 13 (6.95%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.28%) Confluence
3 8 (4.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.60%) nginx
4 3 (1.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (8.02%) Oracle Payroll
3 10 (5.35%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (4.81%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (4.81%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (4.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (3.74%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (3.74%) Oracle Assets
5 7 (3.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 7 (3.74%) Oracle iProcurement
6 6 (3.21%) Oracle FAH
7 5 (2.67%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (2.14%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.53%) BigMachines
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.93%) OCI
2 8 (4.28%) AWS
2 8 (4.28%) Azure
3 7 (3.74%) Oracle CX
4 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.60%) SaaS
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.07%) PaaS
7 2 (1.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) HTTP
2 2 (1.07%) FTP
3 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.93%) Oracle Reports
2 40 (21.39%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (13.90%) Oracle Database
4 23 (12.30%) Oracle ODI
5 12 (6.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 11 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.67%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.07%) Siebel EIM
10 2 (1.07%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.53%) DataStage
11 1 (0.53%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.53%) Power BI
11 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.56%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (6.42%) Git
3 10 (5.35%) Oracle APEX
4 9 (4.81%) JIRA
5 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.14%) Gradle
6 4 (2.14%) JDeveloper
6 4 (2.14%) Subversion
7 3 (1.60%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.60%) PVCS
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.53%) GitLab
9 1 (0.53%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) Postman
General
1 34 (18.18%) Finance
2 22 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.16%) Social Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Banking
6 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.60%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.60%) Retail
9 2 (1.07%) Back Office
9 2 (1.07%) Local Government
9 2 (1.07%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (7.49%) REST
3 10 (5.35%) XML
4 7 (3.74%) Spring
4 7 (3.74%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.21%) JSON
5 6 (3.21%) SOAP
6 5 (2.67%) HTML
6 5 (2.67%) Kafka
6 5 (2.67%) React
7 4 (2.14%) .NET
7 4 (2.14%) CSS
7 4 (2.14%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.14%) Node.js
7 4 (2.14%) Redux
8 3 (1.60%) Middleware
8 3 (1.60%) OAuth
8 3 (1.60%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 3 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.81%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.72%) Analytics
2 33 (17.65%) ETL
3 32 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (17.11%) Data Modelling
4 28 (14.97%) Performance Tuning
5 27 (14.44%) Migration
6 26 (13.90%) Agile
7 19 (10.16%) DevOps
8 18 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (9.09%) ERP
10 15 (8.02%) Business Analytics
11 11 (5.88%) Data Migration
11 11 (5.88%) Software Engineering
11 11 (5.88%) Validation
12 10 (5.35%) SDLC
13 9 (4.81%) CI/CD
14 8 (4.28%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 8 (4.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (4.28%) ETL Development
14 8 (4.28%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.43%) SQL
2 61 (32.62%) PL/SQL
3 22 (11.76%) Java
4 11 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.14%) C#
7 3 (1.60%) C
7 3 (1.60%) ProC
8 2 (1.07%) Python
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (47.59%) Security Cleared
2 84 (44.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.67%) Degree
4 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.60%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.14%) Control-M
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 2 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.53%) SELinux
4 1 (0.53%) systemd
Vendors
1 187 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.42%) IBM
3 7 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.74%) Talend
4 2 (1.07%) Siebel
4 2 (1.07%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.53%) ATG
5 1 (0.53%) Citrix
5 1 (0.53%) Denodo
5 1 (0.53%) Informatica
5 1 (0.53%) jBASE
5 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) Temenos