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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 484 479
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 83 88 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 110
10th Percentile £436 £401 £413
25th Percentile £500 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.67% -2.02%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £610
90th Percentile £608 £698 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +7.14%

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 32,581 33,702 43,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.80% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,628 20,343 29,147
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,258 1,525
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +81.52%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -28 66 £550 +4.76% 18
London -7 40 £550 - 7
Work from Home +2 36 £550 +4.76% 11
UK excluding London -32 25 £550 +15.79% 19
South East +12 20 £565 +11.60% 11
South West -8 2 £525 +16.67% 3
East Midlands -18 2 £556 +30.88% 2
Midlands -38 2 £556 +30.88% 2
Scotland -6 1 £450 -14.29% 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 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 83 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (72.29%) SQL
3 42 (50.60%) PL/SQL
4 39 (46.99%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (43.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (42.17%) Oracle Reports
7 34 (40.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 24 (28.92%) ERP
9 19 (22.89%) OCI
9 19 (22.89%) Oracle Database
10 18 (21.69%) Agile
11 17 (20.48%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (20.48%) REST
12 16 (19.28%) Migration
12 16 (19.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 16 (19.28%) Workflow
13 15 (18.07%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
15 13 (15.66%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (14.46%) Java
16 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
16 12 (14.46%) Oracle Assets
16 12 (14.46%) Oracle Payables
16 12 (14.46%) Unix
17 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
17 11 (13.25%) SOAP
18 10 (12.05%) Oracle Forms
18 10 (12.05%) Oracle General Ledger
18 10 (12.05%) Oracle SOA Suite

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 (19.28%) Oracle Workflow
2 10 (12.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.61%) Apache
5 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.41%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.20%) nginx
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Service Bus
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 17 (20.48%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (14.46%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (14.46%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (12.05%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (10.84%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (7.23%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (6.02%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (4.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (3.61%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (3.61%) SAP ERP
10 2 (2.41%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (2.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (1.20%) Cloudability
11 1 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
11 1 (1.20%) Oracle FAH
11 1 (1.20%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (1.20%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) OCI
2 3 (3.61%) Azure
2 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (3.61%) PaaS
3 2 (2.41%) AWS
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.20%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.20%) GitHub
4 1 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (1.20%) MinIO
4 1 (1.20%) SaaS
4 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (42.17%) Oracle Reports
2 34 (40.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 19 (22.89%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.23%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.02%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.82%) SQLPlus
7 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) MySQL
8 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.41%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.20%) Big Data
9 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.20%) Metadata
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.82%) Toad
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.73%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.84%) General Ledger
3 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.64%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Billing
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.20%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Local Government
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (20.48%) REST
3 11 (13.25%) SOAP
4 8 (9.64%) jQuery
4 8 (9.64%) XML
5 7 (8.43%) JSON
6 6 (7.23%) CSS
6 6 (7.23%) HTML
6 6 (7.23%) Middleware
7 5 (6.02%) XSL
8 4 (4.82%) OAuth
8 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.82%) Web Services
9 3 (3.61%) .NET
9 3 (3.61%) Ajax
9 3 (3.61%) RESTful
9 3 (3.61%) Swagger
10 2 (2.41%) Java EE
10 2 (2.41%) JSP
11 1 (1.20%) Ext JS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.41%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.46%) 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 39 (46.99%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (28.92%) ERP
3 18 (21.69%) Agile
4 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.28%) Migration
5 16 (19.28%) Workflow
6 15 (18.07%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
8 10 (12.05%) Scrum
8 10 (12.05%) SOA
9 8 (9.64%) Data Migration
10 7 (8.43%) Accounts Payable
10 7 (8.43%) ETL
10 7 (8.43%) SDLC
10 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.23%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.23%) DevOps
11 6 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (7.23%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (72.29%) SQL
2 42 (50.60%) PL/SQL
3 12 (14.46%) Java
3 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.64%) C#
4 8 (9.64%) PHP
5 7 (8.43%) Groovy
6 5 (6.02%) Perl
6 5 (6.02%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) COBIT
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.82%) NIST
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.20%) CEMLI
2 1 (1.20%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
4 2 (2.41%) Teradata
5 1 (1.20%) IBM
5 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.20%) Vertica
5 1 (1.20%) VMware