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 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 452 505
Rank change year-on-year -33 +53 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 72 109 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.31% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 69 96
10th Percentile £404 £410 £419
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £626
90th Percentile £645 £750 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +14.10% -7.14% +10.53%

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 29,544 35,467 47,344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.99% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,645 21,950 32,442
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,552 1,701 1,505
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.73 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%
75th Percentile £51.83 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%

Oracle Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Developer 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 15 September 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 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 15 September 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 -13 60 £550 +10.00% 8
London +1 40 £550 -2.00% 4
Work from Home +1 35 £583 +19.49% 10
UK excluding London -21 18 £556 +14.10% 10
South East +32 12 £600 +20.00% 2
South West +24 2 £415 -7.78% 2
East Midlands -9 2 £556 +30.88%
Scotland -13 2 £488 -3.70% 5
Midlands -22 2 £556 +30.88%

Oracle Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Oracle Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle Developer in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Oracle
2 64 (88.89%) SQL
3 44 (61.11%) PL/SQL
4 33 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (44.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
7 29 (40.28%) Oracle Reports
8 25 (34.72%) Finance
9 22 (30.56%) Oracle EBS
10 19 (26.39%) Agile
11 18 (25.00%) Workflow
11 18 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
11 18 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
12 16 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (22.22%) Java
13 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (19.44%) Oracle Database
14 14 (19.44%) Oracle Payables
14 14 (19.44%) ERP
15 13 (18.06%) Data Modelling
15 13 (18.06%) Unix
15 13 (18.06%) REST
16 12 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
17 11 (15.28%) Accounts Payable
17 11 (15.28%) Oracle General Ledger
17 11 (15.28%) Oracle Forms
17 11 (15.28%) Banking
17 11 (15.28%) General Ledger
18 10 (13.89%) JavaScript

Oracle Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 7 (9.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.17%) Apache
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) GemFire
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (4.17%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (30.56%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (19.44%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
5 11 (15.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (9.72%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (5.56%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (4.17%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (4.17%) SAP ERP
10 2 (2.78%) Oracle Cash Management
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle FAH
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle iProcurement
11 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) OCI
2 3 (4.17%) AWS
3 2 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.39%) Azure
4 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.39%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub
4 1 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.39%) MinIO
4 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (44.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 29 (40.28%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (19.44%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.78%) MySQL
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.39%) Big Data
8 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.39%) GIS
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.39%) SQLPlus
8 1 (1.39%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (13.89%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) Git
4 2 (2.78%) Subversion
5 1 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) Hudson
5 1 (1.39%) Toad
5 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.72%) Finance
3 11 (15.28%) Banking
3 11 (15.28%) General Ledger
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Billing
6 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Automotive
7 1 (1.39%) Back Office
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (18.06%) REST
3 9 (12.50%) SOAP
4 8 (11.11%) jQuery
5 6 (8.33%) .NET
5 6 (8.33%) Web Services
6 5 (6.94%) CSS
6 5 (6.94%) OAuth
6 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
6 5 (6.94%) XML
7 4 (5.56%) Ajax
7 4 (5.56%) HTML
7 4 (5.56%) JSON
7 4 (5.56%) Middleware
7 4 (5.56%) RESTful
7 4 (5.56%) XSL
8 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.17%) Swagger
9 2 (2.78%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Virtual Team
2 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Unix
2 4 (5.56%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (26.39%) Agile
3 18 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (25.00%) Workflow
4 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.44%) ERP
6 13 (18.06%) Data Modelling
7 11 (15.28%) Accounts Payable
8 9 (12.50%) DevOps
8 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (11.11%) Scrum
10 7 (9.72%) Change Management
10 7 (9.72%) Information Security
10 7 (9.72%) Information Security Management
10 7 (9.72%) Migration
10 7 (9.72%) SDLC
10 7 (9.72%) Security Management
10 7 (9.72%) SOA
11 5 (6.94%) GAP Analysis
11 5 (6.94%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 64 (88.89%) SQL
2 44 (61.11%) PL/SQL
3 16 (22.22%) Java
4 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.11%) C#
6 6 (8.33%) Groovy
7 5 (6.94%) PHP
8 3 (4.17%) Python
9 2 (2.78%) Perl
9 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) Degree
3 3 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) COBIT
1 7 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (9.72%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) GridGain
2 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 72 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (1.39%) IBM
3 1 (1.39%) Informatica
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.39%) Teradata
3 1 (1.39%) Vertica
3 1 (1.39%) VMware