Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 425 466
Rank change year-on-year -85 +41 +77
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 130 101 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 76 98
10th Percentile £406 £281 £400
25th Percentile £431 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.54% -9.51%
75th Percentile £580 £625 £586
90th Percentile £638 £763 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +19.76% -2.86% -16.67%
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 46,065 27,116 40,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,032 17,461 26,079
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,078 1,132 2,932
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -73 107 £500 -7.41% 14
UK excluding London -59 84 £509 +19.76% 15
Work from Home -44 44 £500 -4.76% 14
South East -31 43 £525 -8.70% 3
London -83 31 £475 -19.15% 4
Midlands -54 13 £438 +2.94% 4
North of England -68 13 £625 +16.28% 2
Scotland -25 8 £325 +8.33% 5
North West -38 8 £485 -19.17% 2
West Midlands - 7 £438 - 2
East Midlands -24 5 £525 +23.53% 2
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 -
South West -22 3 £565 +34.20% 1
Northern Ireland +4 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 130 (100.00%) Oracle
2 54 (41.54%) Security Cleared
3 52 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 49 (37.69%) SQL
5 40 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (28.46%) Performance Tuning
6 37 (28.46%) PL/SQL
7 30 (23.08%) ETL
8 27 (20.77%) Data Warehouse
9 26 (20.00%) OCI
10 25 (19.23%) Analytics
10 25 (19.23%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (16.92%) ERP
12 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
12 20 (15.38%) Oracle Database
13 18 (13.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 17 (13.08%) Migration
15 15 (11.54%) Oracle ODI
16 14 (10.77%) REST
17 13 (10.00%) Data Migration
18 11 (8.46%) AWS
18 11 (8.46%) Oracle Application Server
18 11 (8.46%) Oracle EBS
18 11 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
19 10 (7.69%) Agile
19 10 (7.69%) Batch Processing
19 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 9 (6.92%) Business Analytics
20 9 (6.92%) OLTP

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 11 (8.46%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (3.85%) Confluence
3 4 (3.08%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.77%) SAS
5 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (6.92%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (1.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.77%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.00%) OCI
2 11 (8.46%) AWS
3 7 (5.38%) Oracle CX
4 5 (3.85%) SaaS
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (3.08%) Collibra
6 2 (1.54%) Azure
6 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.77%) GCP
7 1 (0.77%) IaaS
7 1 (0.77%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) FTP
2 1 (0.77%) HTTP
2 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
2 27 (20.77%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (15.38%) Oracle Database
4 18 (13.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 15 (11.54%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (6.92%) OLTP
7 5 (3.85%) Metadata
8 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.54%) Power BI
10 2 (1.54%) Siebel EIM
10 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.54%) Tableau
11 1 (0.77%) MySQL
11 1 (0.77%) OLAP
11 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.77%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) JIRA
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (3.85%) GitLab
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (2.31%) Git
4 3 (2.31%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.31%) Postman
5 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.77%) ERwin
6 1 (0.77%) Gradle
6 1 (0.77%) PVCS
6 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 17 (13.08%) Finance
2 16 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.69%) Local Government
4 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.62%) Retail
6 4 (3.08%) Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Aviation
8 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.77%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (10.77%) REST
3 8 (6.15%) JSON
4 7 (5.38%) SOAP
5 6 (4.62%) HTML
5 6 (4.62%) XML
6 5 (3.85%) .NET
6 5 (3.85%) CSS
7 4 (3.08%) OAuth
8 3 (2.31%) Middleware
8 3 (2.31%) RESTful
8 3 (2.31%) Web Services
8 3 (2.31%) XSLT
9 2 (1.54%) Ajax
9 2 (1.54%) HTML5
9 2 (1.54%) jQuery
9 2 (1.54%) Kafka
9 2 (1.54%) Node.js
9 2 (1.54%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.08%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Unix
3 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.46%) Performance Tuning
2 30 (23.08%) ETL
3 25 (19.23%) Analytics
4 22 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (16.92%) ERP
5 20 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 17 (13.08%) Migration
7 13 (10.00%) Data Migration
8 11 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (7.69%) Agile
9 10 (7.69%) Batch Processing
9 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (6.92%) Business Analytics
10 9 (6.92%) Validation
11 8 (6.15%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.15%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
12 7 (5.38%) Decision-Making
12 7 (5.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (4.62%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (3.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.69%) SQL
2 37 (28.46%) PL/SQL
3 8 (6.15%) Java
4 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.62%) ProC
5 6 (4.62%) Python
6 5 (3.85%) C#
7 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.31%) C
9 1 (0.77%) Bash
9 1 (0.77%) Korn
Qualifications
1 54 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) Degree
4 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.31%) SLA
3 2 (1.54%) COBIT
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) PMO
4 1 (0.77%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.77%) Docker
1 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.77%) Control-M
3 1 (0.77%) SELinux
3 1 (0.77%) systemd
Vendors
1 130 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (5.38%) Talend
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.31%) IBM
6 2 (1.54%) Siebel
7 1 (0.77%) ATG
7 1 (0.77%) Denodo
7 1 (0.77%) Google
7 1 (0.77%) Informatica
7 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.77%) Sitecore