Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 441 492
Rank change year-on-year -93 +51 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 102 89 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.33% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 63 91
10th Percentile £406 £274 £385
25th Percentile £463 £330 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -0.52% -13.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £653 £775 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £564 £350 £438
% change year-on-year +61.07% -20.00% -16.67%
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 41,646 27,118 40,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.78% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,966 17,841 26,815
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 956 2,534
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £31.29 £34.61
% change year-on-year +32.63% -9.58% -18.32%

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 4 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 13 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 4 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 -71 89 £545 +2.83% 14
UK excluding London -84 61 £564 +61.07% 12
South East -21 38 £575 +64.29% 8
London -58 31 £500 -24.53% 5
Work from Home -41 27 £540 +17.39% 3
North of England -64 13 £625 +16.28%
North West -39 8 £485 -19.17%
North East - 5 £625 -
Scotland -14 3 £415 +38.33% 1
Midlands -71 3 £525 +23.53% 2
East of England - 3 £525 -
East Midlands -32 2 £525 +23.53% 1
South West -29 1 £500 +9.65%

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Oracle
2 50 (49.02%) SQL
3 40 (39.22%) Oracle Reports
4 38 (37.25%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (37.25%) PL/SQL
5 36 (35.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (32.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 31 (30.39%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (26.47%) OCI
9 22 (21.57%) ERP
10 21 (20.59%) Migration
11 20 (19.61%) Oracle Database
11 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
12 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (17.65%) SC Cleared
13 15 (14.71%) ETL
14 13 (12.75%) Data Migration
14 13 (12.75%) Data Modelling
14 13 (12.75%) Oracle EBS
15 11 (10.78%) Analytics
16 10 (9.80%) Batch Processing
16 10 (9.80%) Oracle ERP
16 10 (9.80%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (9.80%) REST
16 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (8.82%) Agile
17 9 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
17 9 (8.82%) OLTP
17 9 (8.82%) SOAP
18 8 (7.84%) Microsoft

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 4 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.96%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (9.80%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (7.84%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (6.86%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (6.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (5.88%) Oracle 11i
5 6 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (5.88%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (1.96%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.98%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.98%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.47%) OCI
2 5 (4.90%) AWS
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (3.92%) Azure
3 4 (3.92%) Collibra
4 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.94%) SaaS
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.98%) GCP
6 1 (0.98%) IaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) PaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) FTP
1 1 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (39.22%) Oracle Reports
2 33 (32.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (19.61%) Oracle Database
4 9 (8.82%) OLTP
5 7 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.88%) Metadata
7 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle ODI
8 4 (3.92%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.94%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.96%) OLAP
10 2 (1.96%) Oracle OLAP
10 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.98%) MySQL
11 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.92%) GitLab
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.92%) Toad
3 2 (1.96%) Postman
4 1 (0.98%) ERwin
4 1 (0.98%) Git
4 1 (0.98%) JIRA
4 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (28.43%) Finance
2 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Local Government
5 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.90%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.96%) Aviation
9 2 (1.96%) Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Military
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (35.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (9.80%) REST
3 9 (8.82%) SOAP
4 6 (5.88%) Middleware
5 5 (4.90%) Web Services
5 5 (4.90%) XML
6 4 (3.92%) .NET
7 3 (2.94%) JSON
8 2 (1.96%) CSS
8 2 (1.96%) HTML
8 2 (1.96%) JWT
8 2 (1.96%) OAuth
8 2 (1.96%) XSLT
9 1 (0.98%) Java SE
9 1 (0.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.92%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Unix
2 2 (1.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.25%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (30.39%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (21.57%) ERP
4 21 (20.59%) Migration
5 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.71%) ETL
7 13 (12.75%) Data Migration
7 13 (12.75%) Data Modelling
8 11 (10.78%) Analytics
9 10 (9.80%) Batch Processing
9 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.82%) Agile
10 9 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (6.86%) Decision-Making
11 7 (6.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (5.88%) CI/CD
12 6 (5.88%) DevOps
12 6 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (4.90%) Data Analysis
13 5 (4.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.02%) SQL
2 38 (37.25%) PL/SQL
3 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.90%) ProC
4 5 (4.90%) Python
5 4 (3.92%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) Perl
5 4 (3.92%) PHP
6 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.96%) C
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) Java
8 1 (0.98%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (1.96%) COBIT
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) PMO
4 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.98%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (0.98%) SELinux
2 1 (0.98%) systemd
Vendors
1 102 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.96%) IBM
5 1 (0.98%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.98%) Teradata