Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 453 482
Rank change year-on-year -46 +29 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 78 94 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 53 107
10th Percentile £424 £413 £413
25th Percentile £481 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £588
90th Percentile £625 £700 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +17.11% -9.52% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 31,811 33,985 44,100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,179 20,513 30,002
10th Percentile £278 £300 £295
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,817 1,273 1,546
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.10 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +85.42%

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 8 November 2025.

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 9 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 8 November 2025. 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 -36 64 £550 +4.76% 20
Work from Home -2 36 £540 +2.86% 15
London -13 34 £525 -4.55% 5
UK excluding London -36 28 £556 +17.11% 19
South East +20 23 £565 +11.60% 14
South West -6 2 £525 +16.67% 1
East Midlands -21 2 £556 +30.88% 2
Midlands -35 2 £556 +30.88% 2
Scotland +1 1 £450 -14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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 78 (100.00%) Oracle
2 57 (73.08%) SQL
3 41 (52.56%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (48.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 37 (47.44%) PL/SQL
6 36 (46.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 35 (44.87%) Oracle Reports
8 24 (30.77%) ERP
9 19 (24.36%) OCI
10 18 (23.08%) Agile
11 16 (20.51%) Data Modelling
11 16 (20.51%) Oracle EBS
11 16 (20.51%) REST
12 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (17.95%) Oracle Workflow
13 14 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (17.95%) Workflow
14 13 (16.67%) Oracle Database
15 12 (15.38%) Java
15 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
15 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
16 11 (14.10%) Oracle Assets
16 11 (14.10%) Oracle Payables
16 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
17 10 (12.82%) Migration
17 10 (12.82%) Oracle ERP
17 10 (12.82%) Oracle General Ledger
17 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
17 10 (12.82%) Scrum
17 10 (12.82%) SOAP

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 (17.95%) Oracle Workflow
2 8 (10.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
4 2 (2.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.56%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.28%) nginx
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 11 (14.10%) Oracle Assets
3 11 (14.10%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (12.82%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (12.82%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (5.13%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (3.85%) SAP ERP
8 2 (2.56%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (1.28%) Cloudability
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle Payroll
9 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) OCI
2 4 (5.13%) PaaS
3 2 (2.56%) AWS
3 2 (2.56%) Azure
3 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.28%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.28%) GitHub
4 1 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.28%) MinIO
4 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (46.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 35 (44.87%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.41%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.56%) MySQL
7 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.28%) Big Data
8 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.28%) GIS
8 1 (1.28%) Metadata
8 1 (1.28%) OLAP
8 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.28%) Git
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 30 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) General Ledger
4 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.26%) Banking
4 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.85%) Billing
5 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Back Office
7 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Local Government
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (20.51%) REST
3 10 (12.82%) SOAP
4 8 (10.26%) jQuery
5 7 (8.97%) JSON
5 7 (8.97%) XML
6 6 (7.69%) CSS
6 6 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (6.41%) XSL
8 4 (5.13%) Middleware
8 4 (5.13%) OAuth
8 4 (5.13%) OAuth2
8 4 (5.13%) Web Services
9 3 (3.85%) .NET
9 3 (3.85%) Ajax
9 3 (3.85%) RESTful
9 3 (3.85%) Swagger
10 2 (2.56%) Java EE
10 2 (2.56%) JSP
11 1 (1.28%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Unix
2 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Solaris
3 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (52.56%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (30.77%) ERP
3 18 (23.08%) Agile
4 16 (20.51%) Data Modelling
5 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (17.95%) Workflow
7 10 (12.82%) Migration
7 10 (12.82%) Scrum
7 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.26%) SOA
9 7 (8.97%) Accounts Payable
9 7 (8.97%) Information Security
9 7 (8.97%) Information Security Management
9 7 (8.97%) SDLC
9 7 (8.97%) Security Management
10 6 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (6.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 57 (73.08%) SQL
2 37 (47.44%) PL/SQL
3 12 (15.38%) Java
3 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.26%) C#
5 7 (8.97%) Groovy
6 4 (5.13%) PHP
7 2 (2.56%) Python
7 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) COBIT
1 7 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.97%) NIST
2 3 (3.85%) SLA
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.28%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.85%) SAP
3 2 (2.56%) Teradata
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.28%) Vertica
4 1 (1.28%) VMware