Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 443 482
Rank change year-on-year -74 +39 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 112 92 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 88
10th Percentile £406 £274 £396
25th Percentile £450 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.81% -11.14%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £633
90th Percentile £645 £775 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £350 £430
% change year-on-year +52.14% -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 42,358 27,131 40,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 92.61% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,304 17,800 26,582
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £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 2,673 984 2,591
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.55 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.43 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.28% -14.29% -17.38%

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 16 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 16 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 -62 93 £525 -0.47% 18
UK excluding London -72 67 £533 +52.14% 12
South East -25 38 £565 +61.43% 10
Work from Home -36 32 £525 +14.13% 9
London -54 32 £500 -24.53% 6
North of England -62 13 £625 +16.28%
North West -30 8 £485 -19.17%
Scotland -13 5 £370 +23.33%
Midlands -65 5 £525 +23.53% 2
North East - 5 £625 -
East Midlands -32 4 £525 +23.53% 1
East of England - 3 £525 -
South West -31 2 £500 +42.86%
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 112 (100.00%) Oracle
2 49 (43.75%) SQL
3 44 (39.29%) Oracle Reports
4 37 (33.04%) PL/SQL
5 34 (30.36%) Performance Tuning
6 32 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 31 (27.68%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (25.00%) OCI
8 28 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 27 (24.11%) ERP
9 27 (24.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 26 (23.21%) SC Cleared
11 24 (21.43%) Migration
12 23 (20.54%) ETL
13 20 (17.86%) Oracle Database
14 18 (16.07%) Analytics
15 17 (15.18%) Data Migration
15 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (14.29%) Data Modelling
17 15 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
17 15 (13.39%) Oracle EBS
18 12 (10.71%) Oracle ODI
18 12 (10.71%) REST
19 10 (8.93%) Batch Processing
19 10 (8.93%) Oracle ERP
19 10 (8.93%) Oracle Forms
19 10 (8.93%) SOAP
20 9 (8.04%) OLTP
21 8 (7.14%) Microsoft
21 8 (7.14%) Oracle Application Server

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 8 (7.14%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (13.39%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (8.93%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle 11i
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (2.68%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (2.68%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (1.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.89%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.89%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.00%) OCI
2 5 (4.46%) AWS
3 4 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.57%) Azure
3 4 (3.57%) Collibra
3 4 (3.57%) Oracle CX
3 4 (3.57%) SaaS
4 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.89%) GCP
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) FTP
2 1 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (39.29%) Oracle Reports
2 27 (24.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (17.86%) Oracle Database
4 15 (13.39%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (10.71%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (8.04%) OLTP
7 5 (4.46%) Metadata
7 5 (4.46%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.57%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.79%) Power BI
10 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.79%) Tableau
11 1 (0.89%) MySQL
11 1 (0.89%) OLAP
11 1 (0.89%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (3.57%) GitLab
3 4 (3.57%) Toad
4 2 (1.79%) Postman
4 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.89%) ERwin
5 1 (0.89%) Git
5 1 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (24.11%) Finance
2 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.93%) Local Government
4 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Retail
7 3 (2.68%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.79%) Aviation
9 1 (0.89%) Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (10.71%) REST
3 10 (8.93%) SOAP
4 6 (5.36%) Middleware
4 6 (5.36%) Web Services
4 6 (5.36%) XML
5 5 (4.46%) JSON
6 4 (3.57%) .NET
7 3 (2.68%) CSS
7 3 (2.68%) HTML
7 3 (2.68%) OAuth
7 3 (2.68%) XSLT
8 2 (1.79%) JWT
9 1 (0.89%) Ajax
9 1 (0.89%) Java SE
9 1 (0.89%) jQuery
9 1 (0.89%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.57%) Legacy Code
3 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.36%) Performance Tuning
2 31 (27.68%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (24.11%) ERP
4 24 (21.43%) Migration
5 23 (20.54%) ETL
6 18 (16.07%) Analytics
7 17 (15.18%) Data Migration
7 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 10 (8.93%) Batch Processing
10 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (6.25%) Agile
11 7 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.25%) Decision-Making
11 7 (6.25%) Validation
12 6 (5.36%) Business Analytics
12 6 (5.36%) CI/CD
12 6 (5.36%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (5.36%) DevOps
12 6 (5.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.75%) SQL
2 37 (33.04%) PL/SQL
3 8 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.46%) ProC
4 5 (4.46%) Python
5 4 (3.57%) C#
5 4 (3.57%) Perl
5 4 (3.57%) PHP
6 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.79%) C
7 2 (1.79%) Java
8 1 (0.89%) Bash
8 1 (0.89%) Korn
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) COBIT
2 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.79%) NIST
2 2 (1.79%) SLA
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) PMO
3 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle Identity Management
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (0.89%) CEMLI
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.89%) SELinux
4 1 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 112 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Teradata