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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 453 456
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 +85
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 169 103 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 78 91
10th Percentile £406 £282 £400
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £576
90th Percentile £638 £758 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -14.69%
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 48,692 29,793 39,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.81% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,483 18,982 25,593
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,276 1,398 2,720
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.19 £63.41
90th Percentile £80.07 £73.75 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -37.13% +6.67%

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 15 July 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 16 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 15 July 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 -50 136 £509 -9.47% 35
UK excluding London -44 110 £500 +8.11% 35
Work from Home -46 54 £500 -6.98% 28
South East -33 47 £500 -16.67% 8
London -64 41 £475 -16.67% 5
South West -15 19 £565 +34.20% 10
Midlands -41 17 £448 -18.50% 7
Scotland -14 16 £325 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -7 8 £525 -4.55% 3
West Midlands - 8 £438 - 4
North of England -70 7 £625 +16.28% 3
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 - 4
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -
North West -46 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -54 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 169 (100.00%) Oracle
2 77 (45.56%) Security Cleared
3 74 (43.79%) SC Cleared
4 71 (42.01%) SQL
5 58 (34.32%) PL/SQL
6 53 (31.36%) Oracle Reports
7 42 (24.85%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (23.08%) OCI
9 37 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (20.71%) ETL
10 35 (20.71%) Oracle Fusion
11 33 (19.53%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (18.34%) Analytics
12 31 (18.34%) Oracle Database
13 29 (17.16%) Data Modelling
14 25 (14.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 24 (14.20%) ERP
16 23 (13.61%) Agile
16 23 (13.61%) Migration
17 20 (11.83%) Oracle ODI
18 19 (11.24%) Oracle Forms
19 17 (10.06%) Oracle EBS
19 17 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (9.47%) DevOps
21 15 (8.88%) Data Migration
21 15 (8.88%) Oracle Application Server
21 15 (8.88%) REST
21 15 (8.88%) Validation
22 14 (8.28%) Business Analytics
22 14 (8.28%) Java

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 15 (8.88%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (5.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 8 (4.73%) Confluence
4 7 (4.14%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.59%) Apache
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) JBoss
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (5.92%) Oracle Financials
3 9 (5.33%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (4.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (4.14%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (4.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (3.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (3.55%) Oracle FAH
6 5 (2.96%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (2.96%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle iProcurement
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (1.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.59%) BigMachines
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.08%) OCI
2 8 (4.73%) AWS
3 7 (4.14%) Oracle CX
4 6 (3.55%) Azure
5 5 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.37%) SaaS
7 3 (1.78%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.18%) Collibra
8 2 (1.18%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.59%) GCP
9 1 (0.59%) GitHub
9 1 (0.59%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.59%) IaaS
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) FTP
1 2 (1.18%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (31.36%) Oracle Reports
2 33 (19.53%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (18.34%) Oracle Database
4 25 (14.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 20 (11.83%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.55%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.78%) Metadata
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.78%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.18%) Power BI
9 2 (1.18%) Siebel EIM
9 2 (1.18%) SQLPlus
9 2 (1.18%) Tableau
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.59%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (11.24%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (5.92%) JIRA
3 9 (5.33%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (4.73%) Git
5 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.37%) JDeveloper
6 4 (2.37%) Subversion
7 3 (1.78%) Gradle
7 3 (1.78%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.78%) Postman
7 3 (1.78%) PVCS
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.59%) ERwin
9 1 (0.59%) GitLab
9 1 (0.59%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (18.34%) Finance
2 23 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.51%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Local Government
7 6 (3.55%) Retail
8 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.37%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Military
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Aviation
11 1 (0.59%) Front Office
11 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (8.88%) REST
3 12 (7.10%) XML
4 8 (4.73%) JSON
5 7 (4.14%) SOAP
6 6 (3.55%) .NET
6 6 (3.55%) HTML
7 5 (2.96%) CSS
7 5 (2.96%) Spring
7 5 (2.96%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.37%) Kafka
8 4 (2.37%) OAuth
8 4 (2.37%) React
8 4 (2.37%) RESTful
9 3 (1.78%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.78%) Middleware
9 3 (1.78%) Redux
9 3 (1.78%) Web Services
9 3 (1.78%) XSLT
10 2 (1.18%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.78%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.33%) Linux
1 9 (5.33%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.85%) Performance Tuning
2 37 (21.89%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (20.71%) ETL
4 31 (18.34%) Analytics
5 29 (17.16%) Data Modelling
6 24 (14.20%) ERP
7 23 (13.61%) Agile
7 23 (13.61%) Migration
8 17 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.47%) DevOps
10 15 (8.88%) Data Migration
10 15 (8.88%) Validation
11 14 (8.28%) Business Analytics
12 12 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (6.51%) SDLC
14 9 (5.33%) Workflow
15 8 (4.73%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 8 (4.73%) Root Cause Analysis
16 7 (4.14%) Batch Processing
16 7 (4.14%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.01%) SQL
2 58 (34.32%) PL/SQL
3 14 (8.28%) Java
4 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.55%) C#
6 5 (2.96%) Python
7 4 (2.37%) C
7 4 (2.37%) ProC
7 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (45.56%) Security Cleared
2 74 (43.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.37%) Degree
4 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.78%) QA
2 3 (1.78%) SLA
3 2 (1.18%) COBIT
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.59%) PMO
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) Control-M
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Identity Management
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) SELinux
2 1 (0.59%) systemd
Vendors
1 169 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.14%) Talend
4 5 (2.96%) IBM
5 2 (1.18%) Siebel
5 2 (1.18%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.59%) ATG
6 1 (0.59%) Citrix
6 1 (0.59%) Denodo
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) Informatica
6 1 (0.59%) jBASE
6 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.59%) Temenos