Oracle Developer Contract Job Trends

Oracle Developer
UK

The median Oracle Developer daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 437 477
Rank change year-on-year -52 +40 +93
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 98 80 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 58 102
10th Percentile £418 £274 £400
25th Percentile £475 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £455 £498
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% -8.54% -9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £575
90th Percentile £644 £649 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £350 £460
% change year-on-year +64.29% -23.91% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 38,703 27,889 41,142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.83% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,288 17,682 27,029
10th Percentile £310 £288 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 845 2,408
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.25 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -10.88%

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 4 March 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 10 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 4 March 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 -51 84 £540 +5.37% 13
UK excluding London -81 46 £575 +64.29% 12
London -40 36 £500 -6.54% 1
Work from Home -12 35 £525 +16.67% 4
South East -5 30 £575 +64.29% 7
North of England -48 13 £625 +75.56%
North West -31 8 £485 +36.24%
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 2 £525 -
South West -34 1 £500 -2.44%

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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 98 (100.00%) Oracle
2 53 (54.08%) SQL
3 43 (43.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 40 (40.82%) Oracle Reports
5 38 (38.78%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (37.76%) PL/SQL
7 33 (33.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 31 (31.63%) OCI
9 28 (28.57%) ERP
10 26 (26.53%) Performance Tuning
11 20 (20.41%) Oracle Database
12 18 (18.37%) Migration
12 18 (18.37%) REST
13 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (15.31%) Agile
14 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
15 13 (13.27%) Oracle ERP
15 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
15 13 (13.27%) SOAP
16 11 (11.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 11 (11.22%) SOA
17 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
17 10 (10.20%) Oracle EBS
17 10 (10.20%) Oracle Forms
17 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 9 (9.18%) Batch Processing
18 9 (9.18%) Collaborative Working
18 9 (9.18%) Data Migration
18 9 (9.18%) ETL
18 9 (9.18%) JavaScript

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 (11.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (3.06%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (3.06%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (3.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (2.04%) Cloudability
8 2 (2.04%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (2.04%) SAP ERP
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.63%) OCI
2 5 (5.10%) AWS
3 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (4.08%) Collibra
4 3 (3.06%) Azure
4 3 (3.06%) PaaS
5 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.04%) SaaS
5 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.02%) GCP
6 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.82%) Oracle Reports
2 33 (33.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 20 (20.41%) Oracle Database
4 9 (9.18%) OLTP
5 6 (6.12%) Metadata
6 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.08%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.04%) OLAP
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.02%) MySQL
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.02%) Power BI
10 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.08%) GitLab
2 4 (4.08%) Toad
3 3 (3.06%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (2.04%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) ERwin
5 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) Postman
General
1 33 (33.67%) Finance
2 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Local Government
4 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.06%) Billing
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Aviation
8 2 (2.04%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (18.37%) REST
3 13 (13.27%) SOAP
4 8 (8.16%) XML
5 6 (6.12%) Middleware
6 5 (5.10%) CSS
6 5 (5.10%) HTML
6 5 (5.10%) JSON
7 4 (4.08%) .NET
7 4 (4.08%) jQuery
7 4 (4.08%) Web Services
7 4 (4.08%) XSL
8 1 (1.02%) JWT
8 1 (1.02%) OAuth
8 1 (1.02%) RESTful
8 1 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.10%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.08%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (28.57%) ERP
3 26 (26.53%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (18.37%) Migration
5 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.31%) Agile
7 11 (11.22%) SOA
8 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
8 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.18%) Batch Processing
9 9 (9.18%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (9.18%) Data Migration
9 9 (9.18%) ETL
9 9 (9.18%) Workflow
10 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.12%) Decision-Making
12 5 (5.10%) CI/CD
12 5 (5.10%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.08%) SQL
2 37 (37.76%) PL/SQL
3 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.16%) C#
4 8 (8.16%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.14%) Groovy
6 5 (5.10%) Java
6 5 (5.10%) ProC
6 5 (5.10%) Python
7 4 (4.08%) Perl
7 4 (4.08%) PHP
8 2 (2.04%) C
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) SLA
2 2 (2.04%) COBIT
2 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) GDPR
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.02%) CEMLI
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 98 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.04%) IBM
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) Teradata