Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £509, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 422 463
Rank change year-on-year -85 +41 +74
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 123 104 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 77 95
10th Percentile £406 £278 £403
25th Percentile £441 £350 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £592
90th Percentile £643 £760 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +29.25% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.01 - -
Median hourly rate £36.71 - -
75th Percentile £39.41 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 - -

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 44,544 26,886 39,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,258 17,494 25,719
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.88% -34.16% -5.88%

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 21 May 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 15 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 21 May 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 -70 106 £525 -0.47% 13
UK excluding London -74 80 £517 +29.25% 11
South East -27 44 £569 +8.33% 3
Work from Home -55 37 £500 +5.26% 8
London -63 33 £488 -15.22% 2
North of England -60 13 £625 +16.28% 2
Midlands -49 11 £438 +2.94% 5
North West -33 8 £485 -19.17% 2
Scotland -19 6 £325 +8.33% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £525 +23.53% 1
North East - 5 £625 -
West Midlands - 5 £438 - 4
East of England - 4 £517 -
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -
South West -36 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 123 (100.00%) Oracle
2 43 (34.96%) Security Cleared
3 42 (34.15%) SQL
4 41 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 38 (30.89%) Oracle Reports
6 34 (27.64%) Performance Tuning
7 32 (26.02%) OCI
8 30 (24.39%) PL/SQL
9 28 (22.76%) ETL
9 28 (22.76%) Oracle Fusion
10 26 (21.14%) ERP
11 24 (19.51%) Analytics
11 24 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (18.70%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (17.07%) Migration
14 19 (15.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 17 (13.82%) Data Modelling
16 16 (13.01%) REST
17 15 (12.20%) Data Migration
17 15 (12.20%) Oracle Database
18 14 (11.38%) Oracle ODI
19 13 (10.57%) Oracle EBS
20 12 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
21 10 (8.13%) Batch Processing
21 10 (8.13%) Oracle Application Server
21 10 (8.13%) Oracle ERP
21 10 (8.13%) SOAP
22 9 (7.32%) Agile
22 9 (7.32%) OLTP
22 9 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management

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 10 (8.13%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (8.13%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (4.88%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (4.07%) Oracle 11i
4 5 (4.07%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (3.25%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (1.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.81%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.81%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.02%) OCI
2 7 (5.69%) AWS
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle CX
3 5 (4.07%) SaaS
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (3.25%) Collibra
5 2 (1.63%) Azure
5 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.81%) GCP
6 1 (0.81%) IaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) PaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) FTP
2 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.89%) Oracle Reports
2 24 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (15.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 15 (12.20%) Oracle Database
5 14 (11.38%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (7.32%) OLTP
7 5 (4.07%) Metadata
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.63%) Power BI
9 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.63%) Tableau
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.81%) MySQL
10 1 (0.81%) OLAP
10 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.81%) Siebel EIM
10 1 (0.81%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.25%) GitLab
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.44%) Postman
4 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.81%) ERwin
5 1 (0.81%) Git
5 1 (0.81%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.81%) Toad
General
1 24 (19.51%) Finance
2 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.94%) Local Government
5 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.88%) Retail
6 3 (2.44%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.63%) Aviation
7 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (13.01%) REST
3 10 (8.13%) SOAP
4 8 (6.50%) JSON
5 7 (5.69%) XML
6 6 (4.88%) HTML
7 5 (4.07%) CSS
7 5 (4.07%) Middleware
8 4 (3.25%) .NET
8 4 (3.25%) OAuth
8 4 (3.25%) Web Services
9 3 (2.44%) XSLT
10 2 (1.63%) Ajax
10 2 (1.63%) HTML5
10 2 (1.63%) jQuery
10 2 (1.63%) JWT
10 2 (1.63%) Node.js
10 2 (1.63%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.63%) RESTful
11 1 (0.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.25%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.63%) Linux
1 2 (1.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Performance Tuning
2 28 (22.76%) ETL
3 26 (21.14%) ERP
4 24 (19.51%) Analytics
5 23 (18.70%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (17.07%) Migration
7 17 (13.82%) Data Modelling
8 15 (12.20%) Data Migration
9 12 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.13%) Batch Processing
11 9 (7.32%) Agile
11 9 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.32%) Validation
12 8 (6.50%) Business Analytics
12 8 (6.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 7 (5.69%) CI/CD
13 7 (5.69%) Decision-Making
14 6 (4.88%) Root Cause Analysis
15 5 (4.07%) ETL Development
15 5 (4.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.15%) SQL
2 30 (24.39%) PL/SQL
3 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.07%) ProC
4 5 (4.07%) Python
4 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.25%) C#
5 4 (3.25%) Java
6 2 (1.63%) C
7 1 (0.81%) Bash
7 1 (0.81%) Korn
7 1 (0.81%) Perl
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (34.96%) Security Cleared
2 41 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.63%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.44%) SLA
3 2 (1.63%) COBIT
3 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.81%) SELinux
3 1 (0.81%) systemd
Vendors
1 123 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.07%) Talend
3 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.63%) IBM
5 1 (0.81%) ATG
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) Informatica
5 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.81%) Siebel