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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 477 477
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 89 75 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 39 106
10th Percentile £439 £410 £413
25th Percentile £500 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £624
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +3.54%

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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

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 17 December 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 11 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 17 December 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 -33 73 £550 +3.77% 14
London -11 43 £550 - 4
Work from Home -6 34 £540 +13.68% 5
UK excluding London -51 29 £550 +22.22% 11
South East +4 22 £565 +61.43% 5
South West -9 2 £525 +16.67% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £556 +30.88% 2
North West -27 2 £485 -3.96% 3
Midlands -34 2 £556 +30.88% 2
North of England -47 2 £485 -1.02% 3
Scotland +3 1 £450 -4.51%

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 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 89 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (67.42%) SQL
3 46 (51.69%) PL/SQL
4 36 (40.45%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (40.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 35 (39.33%) Oracle Reports
6 31 (34.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 28 (31.46%) ERP
8 26 (29.21%) OCI
9 20 (22.47%) Agile
10 19 (21.35%) Oracle Database
10 19 (21.35%) Oracle EBS
10 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (21.35%) REST
11 18 (20.22%) Migration
12 16 (17.98%) Oracle Workflow
12 16 (17.98%) Workflow
13 15 (16.85%) Oracle Payables
14 14 (15.73%) Oracle Assets
15 13 (14.61%) Oracle EBS R12
15 13 (14.61%) SOAP
16 12 (13.48%) Data Modelling
16 12 (13.48%) Java
16 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
16 12 (13.48%) Oracle Forms
16 12 (13.48%) Oracle General Ledger
16 12 (13.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 12 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (13.48%) SOA
16 12 (13.48%) Unix

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 16 (17.98%) Oracle Workflow
2 12 (13.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.37%) Apache
5 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.25%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (21.35%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (16.85%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (15.73%) Oracle Assets
4 13 (14.61%) Oracle EBS R12
5 12 (13.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (11.24%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (8.99%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (7.87%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (5.62%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (4.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 3 (3.37%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (3.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 3 (3.37%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (3.37%) SAP ERP
12 2 (2.25%) Cloudability
12 2 (2.25%) Oracle BPM
12 2 (2.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 1 (1.12%) Oracle FAH
13 1 (1.12%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 1 (1.12%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) OCI
2 5 (5.62%) AWS
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (3.37%) Azure
3 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.37%) PaaS
4 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.12%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.12%) MinIO
5 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.33%) Oracle Reports
2 31 (34.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 19 (21.35%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.74%) RDBMS
4 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.62%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.49%) SQLPlus
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.37%) OLTP
8 2 (2.25%) MySQL
8 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.25%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.12%) Big Data
9 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.12%) GIS
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (8.99%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.49%) Toad
4 3 (3.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.12%) Git
5 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.33%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) General Ledger
4 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Local Government
6 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.37%) Billing
8 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Back Office
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (40.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (21.35%) REST
3 13 (14.61%) SOAP
4 9 (10.11%) XML
5 8 (8.99%) jQuery
5 8 (8.99%) Middleware
6 7 (7.87%) JSON
7 6 (6.74%) CSS
7 6 (6.74%) HTML
8 5 (5.62%) Web Services
8 5 (5.62%) XSL
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.37%) .NET
10 3 (3.37%) Ajax
10 3 (3.37%) RESTful
10 3 (3.37%) Swagger
11 2 (2.25%) Java EE
11 2 (2.25%) JSP
12 1 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
1 5 (5.62%) Virtual Team
2 4 (4.49%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.37%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Unix
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Solaris
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (31.46%) ERP
3 20 (22.47%) Agile
4 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.22%) Migration
6 16 (17.98%) Workflow
7 12 (13.48%) Data Modelling
7 12 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (13.48%) SOA
8 10 (11.24%) Scrum
9 9 (10.11%) Accounts Payable
10 8 (8.99%) Data Migration
11 7 (7.87%) ETL
11 7 (7.87%) SDLC
11 7 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.74%) DevOps
12 6 (6.74%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (6.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 60 (67.42%) SQL
2 46 (51.69%) PL/SQL
3 12 (13.48%) Java
3 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.99%) C#
4 8 (8.99%) PHP
4 8 (8.99%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.87%) Groovy
6 5 (5.62%) Perl
7 3 (3.37%) ProC
8 2 (2.25%) Python
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) C
9 1 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) COBIT
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.12%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.37%) SAP
4 2 (2.25%) Teradata
5 1 (1.12%) IBM
5 1 (1.12%) Vertica
5 1 (1.12%) VMware