Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 460 459
Rank change year-on-year -43 -1 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 83 60 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 116
10th Percentile £416 £370 £406
25th Percentile £478 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £634
90th Percentile £675 £595 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £428 £475
% change year-on-year +28.65% -10.05% +0.05%

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 33,788 29,232 40,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,356 17,863 26,715
10th Percentile £300 £295 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,002 885 1,834
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.76
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 19 January 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 9 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 19 January 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 -35 72 £540 +2.86% 81
London -12 40 £533 -1.84% 6
Work from Home -1 31 £540 +25.58% 5
UK excluding London -41 30 £550 +28.65% 82
South East -2 20 £565 +61.43% 21
North West -19 7 £485 -3.96% 7
North of England -39 7 £485 -3.96% 17
South West -13 2 £525 +5.00% 12
East of England - 1 £525 - 13

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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 83 (100.00%) Oracle
2 51 (61.45%) SQL
3 40 (48.19%) PL/SQL
4 33 (39.76%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (39.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 30 (36.14%) Oracle Reports
6 28 (33.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 27 (32.53%) ERP
7 27 (32.53%) OCI
8 18 (21.69%) Oracle Database
8 18 (21.69%) REST
9 16 (19.28%) Agile
10 15 (18.07%) Migration
10 15 (18.07%) Oracle EBS
11 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (15.66%) Oracle Payables
12 13 (15.66%) Oracle Workflow
12 13 (15.66%) SOAP
12 13 (15.66%) Workflow
13 12 (14.46%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
14 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
14 11 (13.25%) Oracle ERP
14 11 (13.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
14 11 (13.25%) SOA
15 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
15 10 (12.05%) Oracle General Ledger
15 10 (12.05%) Unix
16 9 (10.84%) ETL

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 13 (15.66%) Oracle Workflow
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.61%) Apache
5 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (18.07%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (14.46%) Oracle Assets
4 11 (13.25%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (12.05%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (10.84%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (9.64%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (8.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (6.02%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (4.82%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (3.61%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 3 (3.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 2 (2.41%) Cloudability
12 2 (2.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (2.41%) SAP ERP
13 1 (1.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 1 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
13 1 (1.20%) Oracle iProcurement
13 1 (1.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.53%) OCI
2 6 (7.23%) AWS
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (3.61%) Azure
4 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.61%) PaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Collibra
5 2 (2.41%) SaaS
5 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.20%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (36.14%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (33.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 18 (21.69%) Oracle Database
4 8 (9.64%) OLTP
5 6 (7.23%) RDBMS
5 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.02%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (4.82%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.61%) Metadata
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (2.41%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.20%) Big Data
10 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.20%) GIS
10 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.20%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (7.23%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.82%) GitLab
3 4 (4.82%) Toad
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 32 (38.55%) Finance
2 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.84%) General Ledger
6 6 (7.23%) Banking
7 5 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Local Government
8 3 (3.61%) Billing
8 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.20%) Aviation
10 1 (1.20%) Back Office
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (21.69%) REST
3 13 (15.66%) SOAP
4 8 (9.64%) XML
5 7 (8.43%) Middleware
6 6 (7.23%) jQuery
6 6 (7.23%) JSON
7 5 (6.02%) CSS
7 5 (6.02%) HTML
8 4 (4.82%) Web Services
8 4 (4.82%) XSL
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth
10 2 (2.41%) .NET
10 2 (2.41%) Ajax
10 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
10 2 (2.41%) RESTful
10 2 (2.41%) Swagger
11 1 (1.20%) EJB
11 1 (1.20%) LAPP Stack
11 1 (1.20%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.82%) Legacy Code
2 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.61%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.05%) Unix
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Solaris
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (32.53%) ERP
3 16 (19.28%) Agile
4 15 (18.07%) Migration
5 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.66%) Workflow
7 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
7 11 (13.25%) SOA
8 9 (10.84%) ETL
8 9 (10.84%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (9.64%) Scrum
10 7 (8.43%) Accounts Payable
10 7 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (8.43%) Data Migration
10 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (6.02%) Integration Testing
12 5 (6.02%) Requirements Gathering
12 5 (6.02%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 51 (61.45%) SQL
2 40 (48.19%) PL/SQL
3 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.84%) Shell Script
5 8 (9.64%) Java
6 7 (8.43%) Groovy
7 6 (7.23%) C#
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
9 4 (4.82%) PHP
9 4 (4.82%) ProC
9 4 (4.82%) Python
10 1 (1.20%) Bash
10 1 (1.20%) C
10 1 (1.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) SLA
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.20%) CEMLI
3 1 (1.20%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) Teradata
6 1 (1.20%) Vertica
6 1 (1.20%) VMware