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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 434 485
Rank change year-on-year -91 +51 +75
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 94 92 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 65 103
10th Percentile £406 £277 £388
25th Percentile £475 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -4.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £575
90th Percentile £650 £745 £819
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +64.29% -22.22% -12.20%
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 39,127 27,402 41,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.96% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,467 17,684 27,246
10th Percentile £312 £293 £270
25th Percentile £410 £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 £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 859 2,507
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +2.17% -22.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.16 £76.44 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.95 £32.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +7.52% -0.60% -18.26%

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 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 11 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 -73 82 £550 +3.77% 33
UK excluding London -82 48 £575 +64.29% 33
London -43 33 £500 -14.53% 3
South East -20 32 £575 +64.29% 13
Work from Home -29 31 £540 +15.51% 29
North of England -56 13 £625 +50.42% 3
North West -29 8 £485 +36.24% 1
North East - 5 £625 - 1
East of England - 2 £525 - 6
South West -24 1 £500 -2.44% 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 94 (100.00%) Oracle
2 46 (48.94%) SQL
3 39 (41.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 35 (37.23%) Oracle Reports
5 33 (35.11%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (35.11%) PL/SQL
6 28 (29.79%) OCI
6 28 (29.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 26 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
8 23 (24.47%) ERP
9 21 (22.34%) Oracle Database
10 19 (20.21%) Migration
11 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
13 14 (14.89%) REST
14 13 (13.83%) Agile
14 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
15 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
15 11 (11.70%) ETL
15 11 (11.70%) Oracle EBS
16 10 (10.64%) Data Migration
16 10 (10.64%) Oracle ERP
16 10 (10.64%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (9.57%) Batch Processing
17 9 (9.57%) OLTP
17 9 (9.57%) SOAP
18 8 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
18 8 (8.51%) Shell Script
18 8 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing

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 5 (5.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (10.64%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (7.45%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (6.38%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (6.38%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (6.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle 11i
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (2.13%) Cloudability
8 2 (2.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.79%) OCI
2 5 (5.32%) AWS
3 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (4.26%) Collibra
3 4 (4.26%) PaaS
4 3 (3.19%) Azure
5 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.13%) SaaS
5 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.06%) IaaS
6 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (37.23%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (29.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 21 (22.34%) Oracle Database
4 9 (9.57%) OLTP
5 6 (6.38%) Metadata
6 5 (5.32%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.26%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.13%) OLAP
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.06%) MySQL
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.06%) Power BI
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.26%) GitLab
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (4.26%) Toad
3 2 (2.13%) Git
3 2 (2.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (1.06%) ERwin
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (29.79%) Finance
2 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Local Government
5 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.26%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.19%) Retail
9 2 (2.13%) Aviation
9 2 (2.13%) Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (41.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (14.89%) REST
3 9 (9.57%) SOAP
4 6 (6.38%) JSON
4 6 (6.38%) XML
5 5 (5.32%) CSS
5 5 (5.32%) HTML
5 5 (5.32%) Web Services
6 4 (4.26%) .NET
6 4 (4.26%) Middleware
7 2 (2.13%) JWT
7 2 (2.13%) OAuth
7 2 (2.13%) XSLT
8 1 (1.06%) jQuery
8 1 (1.06%) RESTful
8 1 (1.06%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Legacy Code
3 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
3 23 (24.47%) ERP
4 19 (20.21%) Migration
5 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.83%) Agile
7 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
7 11 (11.70%) ETL
8 10 (10.64%) Data Migration
8 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.57%) Batch Processing
10 8 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (6.38%) Analytics
12 6 (6.38%) Decision-Making
12 6 (6.38%) DevOps
13 5 (5.32%) CI/CD
13 5 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (5.32%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) SQL
2 33 (35.11%) PL/SQL
3 8 (8.51%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.32%) C#
5 5 (5.32%) ProC
5 5 (5.32%) Python
6 4 (4.26%) Perl
6 4 (4.26%) PHP
7 2 (2.13%) C
7 2 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) Groovy
8 1 (1.06%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) COBIT
2 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (1.06%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.06%) CEMLI
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 94 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (1.06%) Google
5 1 (1.06%) Teradata