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 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 466 473
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 +70
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 89 73 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 38 113
10th Percentile £429 £385 £413
25th Percentile £479 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £596 £572 £625
90th Percentile £675 £601 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +3.63%

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 33,457 31,336 40,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.78% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,148 19,251 27,411
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,983 978 1,439
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.05 £19.21
Median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.54 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £72.99 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +84.29%

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 22 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 22 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 -18 74 £550 +6.80% 14
London +1 44 £541 -0.92% 4
Work from Home -7 34 £540 +25.58% 5
UK excluding London -34 29 £550 +22.22% 12
South East -4 20 £565 +61.43% 4
North West -24 4 £485 -3.96% 3
North of England -40 4 £485 -1.02% 3
South West -11 2 £525 +16.67% 1
East Midlands -22 2 £556 +30.88% 3
Midlands -43 2 £556 +30.88% 3
Scotland +3 1 £450 -4.51%

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 61 (68.54%) SQL
3 48 (53.93%) PL/SQL
4 35 (39.33%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (37.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (35.96%) Oracle Reports
7 30 (33.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 28 (31.46%) ERP
9 26 (29.21%) OCI
10 20 (22.47%) Agile
10 20 (22.47%) Oracle Database
11 19 (21.35%) Oracle EBS
11 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (21.35%) REST
12 18 (20.22%) Migration
13 16 (17.98%) Oracle Workflow
13 16 (17.98%) Workflow
14 15 (16.85%) Oracle Payables
15 14 (15.73%) Oracle Assets
16 13 (14.61%) Oracle EBS R12
16 13 (14.61%) SOAP
17 12 (13.48%) Java
17 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
17 12 (13.48%) Oracle Forms
17 12 (13.48%) Oracle General Ledger
17 12 (13.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 12 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
17 12 (13.48%) SOA
17 12 (13.48%) Unix
18 11 (12.36%) Data Modelling

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 Applications
10 4 (4.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
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 SCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) OCI
2 6 (6.74%) AWS
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (3.37%) Azure
4 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.37%) PaaS
5 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.12%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.12%) Collibra
6 1 (1.12%) GitHub
6 1 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.12%) MinIO
6 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.96%) Oracle Reports
2 30 (33.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (22.47%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.74%) RDBMS
4 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.62%) OLTP
5 5 (5.62%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.49%) SQLPlus
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.25%) Metadata
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%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (8.99%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.49%) GitLab
3 4 (4.49%) Toad
4 1 (1.12%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.33%) Finance
2 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.36%) General Ledger
4 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Local Government
7 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.37%) Billing
9 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.12%) Back Office
10 1 (1.12%) Law
10 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (37.08%) 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%) .NET
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth
9 4 (4.49%) OAuth2
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%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
1 5 (5.62%) Legacy Code
1 5 (5.62%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.37%) Hedge funds
2 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
4 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 35 (39.33%) 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%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (13.48%) SOA
8 11 (12.36%) Data Modelling
9 10 (11.24%) Scrum
10 9 (10.11%) Accounts Payable
11 8 (8.99%) Data Migration
11 8 (8.99%) ETL
12 7 (7.87%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (7.87%) SDLC
12 7 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (6.74%) DevOps
13 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (6.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 61 (68.54%) SQL
2 48 (53.93%) PL/SQL
3 12 (13.48%) Java
3 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.11%) C#
4 9 (10.11%) Shell Script
5 8 (8.99%) PHP
6 7 (7.87%) Groovy
7 5 (5.62%) Perl
8 4 (4.49%) ProC
9 3 (3.37%) Python
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 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%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) 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 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) Teradata
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) Vertica
6 1 (1.12%) VMware