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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 480 454
Rank change year-on-year -26 -26 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 176 71 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 50 76
10th Percentile £406 £412 £413
25th Percentile £431 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% -7.80%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.08% -9.30%

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 50,251 30,087 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.83% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,471 18,979 21,309
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,065 1,640 1,482
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.91
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.74% -3.03%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -32 149 £500 -9.09% 24
UK excluding London +20 124 £500 -16.67% 12
Work from Home -45 54 £475 -16.37% 16
London -83 40 £525 +5.00% 13
South West +7 36 £565 +2.73%
South East -45 35 £488 -18.75% 2
Midlands -26 18 £438 -21.35% 8
Scotland -3 17 £320 -28.89% 1
West Midlands - 13 £438 - 2
East of England - 12 £625 -
Yorkshire - 7 - -
North of England - 7 - - 1
East Midlands -10 5 £508 -8.76% 6

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 176 (100.00%) Oracle
2 86 (48.86%) Security Cleared
3 81 (46.02%) SC Cleared
4 66 (37.50%) SQL
5 59 (33.52%) PL/SQL
6 39 (22.16%) OCI
7 36 (20.45%) Oracle Reports
8 35 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (19.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 32 (18.18%) Analytics
11 30 (17.05%) ETL
12 29 (16.48%) Data Modelling
13 28 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (14.77%) Agile
14 26 (14.77%) Oracle Database
15 25 (14.20%) Migration
15 25 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (11.93%) Java
17 20 (11.36%) Oracle ODI
18 18 (10.23%) DevOps
19 16 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
19 16 (9.09%) Oracle Payroll
19 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
20 15 (8.52%) Oracle Application Server
20 15 (8.52%) Oracle EBS
21 14 (7.95%) ERP
21 14 (7.95%) REST
22 13 (7.39%) Business Analytics
23 12 (6.82%) Git
23 12 (6.82%) IBM

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 (8.52%) Oracle Application Server
2 12 (6.82%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.55%) Confluence
3 8 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.70%) nginx
4 3 (1.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) JBoss
6 1 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Oracle Payroll
2 15 (8.52%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (5.68%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (5.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (3.98%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 7 (3.98%) Oracle Assets
5 7 (3.98%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 7 (3.98%) Oracle iProcurement
6 6 (3.41%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (2.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (2.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 3 (1.70%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.16%) OCI
2 8 (4.55%) AWS
3 7 (3.98%) Azure
4 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.27%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle CX
5 4 (2.27%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 3 (1.70%) SaaS
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.14%) PaaS
7 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) FTP
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.45%) Oracle Reports
2 35 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (14.77%) Oracle Database
4 20 (11.36%) Oracle ODI
5 11 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.70%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (1.70%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (1.14%) Siebel EIM
11 2 (1.14%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.57%) DataStage
12 1 (0.57%) Ingres
12 1 (0.57%) Pentaho
12 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (6.82%) Git
3 11 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
4 9 (5.11%) JIRA
5 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.27%) Gradle
6 4 (2.27%) JDeveloper
6 4 (2.27%) Subversion
7 3 (1.70%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.70%) PVCS
8 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) GitLab
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (18.18%) Finance
2 21 (11.93%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.80%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.95%) Banking
6 5 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.70%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Back Office
9 2 (1.14%) Local Government
9 2 (1.14%) Military
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (7.95%) REST
3 10 (5.68%) XML
4 7 (3.98%) Spring
4 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.41%) HTML
5 6 (3.41%) JSON
6 5 (2.84%) CSS
6 5 (2.84%) Kafka
6 5 (2.84%) React
7 4 (2.27%) .NET
7 4 (2.27%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.27%) Node.js
7 4 (2.27%) Redux
7 4 (2.27%) SOAP
8 3 (1.70%) HTML5
8 3 (1.70%) OAuth
8 3 (1.70%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.70%) RESTful
8 3 (1.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.55%) Linux
1 8 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.18%) Analytics
2 30 (17.05%) ETL
3 29 (16.48%) Data Modelling
4 28 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (14.77%) Agile
6 25 (14.20%) Migration
6 25 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (10.23%) DevOps
8 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (7.95%) ERP
10 13 (7.39%) Business Analytics
11 11 (6.25%) Software Engineering
12 10 (5.68%) SDLC
13 9 (5.11%) Data Migration
13 9 (5.11%) Validation
14 8 (4.55%) CI/CD
14 8 (4.55%) Information Security
14 8 (4.55%) Runbook
14 8 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (4.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.50%) SQL
2 59 (33.52%) PL/SQL
3 21 (11.93%) Java
4 11 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.27%) C#
7 3 (1.70%) C
7 3 (1.70%) ProC
8 2 (1.14%) Python
9 1 (0.57%) Groovy
9 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 81 (46.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.84%) Degree
4 4 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.70%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.27%) Control-M
2 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Identity Management
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 176 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.82%) IBM
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.98%) Talend
4 2 (1.14%) Siebel
4 2 (1.14%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.57%) ATG
5 1 (0.57%) Citrix
5 1 (0.57%) Denodo
5 1 (0.57%) Informatica
5 1 (0.57%) jBASE
5 1 (0.57%) Temenos