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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 448 463
Rank change year-on-year -48 +15 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 166 102 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 91
10th Percentile £406 £281 £400
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £576
90th Percentile £638 £760 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £440 £450
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.22% -16.28%
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 48,729 30,023 39,779
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.87% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,502 19,148 25,568
10th Percentile £325 £287 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,285 1,392 2,719
10th Percentile £15.90 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £63.20
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +6.67%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -52 133 £509 -10.39% 26
UK excluding London -31 108 £500 +13.64% 22
Work from Home -40 54 £500 -9.09% 17
South East -44 46 £500 -16.67% 7
London -69 40 £475 -17.03% 5
South West -15 19 £565 +34.20% 7
Midlands -33 17 £448 +5.47% 5
Scotland -19 16 £325 +8.33%
East Midlands -7 8 £525 +23.53% 2
West Midlands - 8 £438 - 3
North of England -74 6 £625 +16.28% 1
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 - 3
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -
North West -54 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 166 (100.00%) Oracle
2 75 (45.18%) Security Cleared
3 72 (43.37%) SC Cleared
4 69 (41.57%) SQL
5 56 (33.73%) PL/SQL
6 53 (31.93%) Oracle Reports
7 41 (24.70%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (23.49%) OCI
9 36 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (21.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 34 (20.48%) ETL
12 32 (19.28%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (18.67%) Oracle Database
14 30 (18.07%) Analytics
15 28 (16.87%) Data Modelling
16 24 (14.46%) ERP
16 24 (14.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 23 (13.86%) Migration
18 22 (13.25%) Agile
19 19 (11.45%) Oracle ODI
20 18 (10.84%) Oracle Forms
20 18 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
21 16 (9.64%) DevOps
21 16 (9.64%) Oracle EBS
22 15 (9.04%) Data Migration
22 15 (9.04%) REST
22 15 (9.04%) Validation
23 14 (8.43%) Oracle Application Server
24 13 (7.83%) Business Analytics
24 13 (7.83%) Java

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 14 (8.43%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (4.82%) Confluence
2 8 (4.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (4.22%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.20%) nginx
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.20%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (9.64%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (5.42%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (5.42%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (3.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (3.61%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (3.61%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (3.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle 11i
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle FAH
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (1.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.60%) BigMachines
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.49%) OCI
2 8 (4.82%) AWS
3 7 (4.22%) Oracle CX
4 6 (3.61%) Azure
5 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.01%) SaaS
6 2 (1.20%) Collibra
6 2 (1.20%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.60%) GCP
7 1 (0.60%) GitHub
7 1 (0.60%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.60%) IaaS
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) FTP
1 2 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (31.93%) Oracle Reports
2 32 (19.28%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (18.67%) Oracle Database
4 24 (14.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 19 (11.45%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.61%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.81%) Metadata
8 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.20%) Power BI
9 2 (1.20%) Siebel EIM
9 2 (1.20%) SQLPlus
9 2 (1.20%) Tableau
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (10.84%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (6.02%) JIRA
3 9 (5.42%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (4.82%) Git
5 4 (2.41%) JDeveloper
5 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.41%) Subversion
6 3 (1.81%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.81%) Postman
6 3 (1.81%) PVCS
7 2 (1.20%) Gradle
7 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) ERwin
8 1 (0.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (18.07%) Finance
2 24 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.02%) Banking
6 7 (4.22%) Local Government
7 6 (3.61%) Retail
8 4 (2.41%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Aviation
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Military
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (9.04%) REST
3 11 (6.63%) XML
4 8 (4.82%) JSON
5 7 (4.22%) SOAP
6 6 (3.61%) .NET
6 6 (3.61%) HTML
7 5 (3.01%) CSS
8 4 (2.41%) OAuth
8 4 (2.41%) RESTful
8 4 (2.41%) Spring
8 4 (2.41%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.81%) Kafka
9 3 (1.81%) Middleware
9 3 (1.81%) React
9 3 (1.81%) Web Services
9 3 (1.81%) XSLT
10 2 (1.20%) jQuery
10 2 (1.20%) Node.js
10 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.81%) AI Agents
3 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.42%) Linux
1 9 (5.42%) Unix
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.70%) Performance Tuning
2 36 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (20.48%) ETL
4 30 (18.07%) Analytics
5 28 (16.87%) Data Modelling
6 24 (14.46%) ERP
7 23 (13.86%) Migration
8 22 (13.25%) Agile
9 18 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.64%) DevOps
11 15 (9.04%) Data Migration
11 15 (9.04%) Validation
12 13 (7.83%) Business Analytics
13 12 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (6.63%) SDLC
15 8 (4.82%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 8 (4.82%) Root Cause Analysis
15 8 (4.82%) Workflow
16 7 (4.22%) Release Management
16 7 (4.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 69 (41.57%) SQL
2 56 (33.73%) PL/SQL
3 13 (7.83%) Java
4 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.61%) C#
6 5 (3.01%) Python
7 4 (2.41%) C
7 4 (2.41%) ProC
7 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (45.18%) Security Cleared
2 72 (43.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.41%) Degree
4 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.81%) QA
2 3 (1.81%) SLA
3 2 (1.20%) COBIT
3 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) PMO
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.81%) Oracle Identity Management
1 3 (1.81%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 2 (1.20%) Control-M
3 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) SELinux
3 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 166 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) Talend
4 5 (3.01%) IBM
5 2 (1.20%) Siebel
5 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.60%) ATG
6 1 (0.60%) Citrix
6 1 (0.60%) Denodo
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) jBASE
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) Temenos