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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 444 457
Rank change year-on-year -70 +13 +73
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 142 99 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 76 94
10th Percentile £405 £281 £400
25th Percentile £425 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -10.23%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £589
90th Percentile £625 £763 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £428 £450
% change year-on-year +16.96% -5.00% -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 47,106 27,940 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.14% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,573 17,914 25,878
10th Percentile £325 £289 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,158 1,233 2,861
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.21% -29.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 27 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 27 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 -97 110 £500 -11.03% 19
UK excluding London -63 93 £500 +16.96% 20
Work from Home -46 50 £500 -4.76% 13
South East -33 43 £525 -12.50% 5
London -79 32 £475 -19.15% 2
Midlands -46 17 £448 +5.47% 7
Scotland -9 16 £325 +8.33% 3
East Midlands -7 8 £525 +23.53% 3
North of England -65 8 £625 +16.28% 2
West Midlands - 8 £438 - 4
South West -33 5 £565 +34.20% 3
North East - 5 £625 -
East of England - 4 £517 -
North West -49 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Oracle
2 63 (44.37%) Security Cleared
3 60 (42.25%) SC Cleared
4 55 (38.73%) SQL
5 44 (30.99%) Oracle Reports
6 43 (30.28%) PL/SQL
7 39 (27.46%) Performance Tuning
8 32 (22.54%) ETL
9 29 (20.42%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (20.42%) OCI
10 27 (19.01%) Oracle Database
11 26 (18.31%) Analytics
12 25 (17.61%) Oracle Fusion
13 23 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (16.20%) ERP
14 22 (15.49%) Data Modelling
15 20 (14.08%) Migration
16 18 (12.68%) Agile
16 18 (12.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 16 (11.27%) Oracle ODI
18 15 (10.56%) Data Migration
18 15 (10.56%) REST
19 13 (9.15%) Oracle Forms
19 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (9.15%) Validation
20 11 (7.75%) Java
20 11 (7.75%) Oracle Application Server
20 11 (7.75%) SDLC
21 10 (7.04%) DevOps
21 10 (7.04%) 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 (7.75%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (4.93%) Confluence
2 7 (4.93%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.11%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.41%) nginx
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (6.34%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (2.82%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.70%) BigMachines
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.42%) OCI
2 8 (5.63%) AWS
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle CX
4 6 (4.23%) Azure
5 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.52%) SaaS
6 3 (2.11%) Collibra
7 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.41%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.70%) GCP
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.70%) IaaS
8 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) FTP
1 2 (1.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.99%) Oracle Reports
2 29 (20.42%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (19.01%) Oracle Database
4 18 (12.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (11.27%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.23%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.82%) Metadata
7 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.11%) OLTP
8 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (2.11%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.41%) Power BI
9 2 (1.41%) Siebel EIM
9 2 (1.41%) SQLPlus
9 2 (1.41%) Tableau
10 1 (0.70%) OLAP
10 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (7.04%) JIRA
3 9 (6.34%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (5.63%) Git
5 4 (2.82%) Subversion
6 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.11%) Liquibase
6 3 (2.11%) Postman
6 3 (2.11%) PVCS
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.70%) ERwin
8 1 (0.70%) GitLab
8 1 (0.70%) Gradle
8 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (15.49%) Finance
2 21 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.93%) Local Government
6 6 (4.23%) Banking
6 6 (4.23%) Retail
7 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Aviation
8 2 (1.41%) Military
8 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Front Office
9 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (10.56%) REST
3 8 (5.63%) JSON
4 7 (4.93%) SOAP
5 6 (4.23%) .NET
5 6 (4.23%) HTML
5 6 (4.23%) XML
6 5 (3.52%) CSS
7 4 (2.82%) OAuth
7 4 (2.82%) RESTful
8 3 (2.11%) Middleware
8 3 (2.11%) Spring
8 3 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.11%) Web Services
8 3 (2.11%) XSLT
9 2 (1.41%) Ajax
9 2 (1.41%) HTML5
9 2 (1.41%) jQuery
9 2 (1.41%) JWT
9 2 (1.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Linux
2 5 (3.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.46%) Performance Tuning
2 32 (22.54%) ETL
3 26 (18.31%) Analytics
4 23 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (16.20%) ERP
5 22 (15.49%) Data Modelling
6 20 (14.08%) Migration
7 18 (12.68%) Agile
8 15 (10.56%) Data Migration
9 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (9.15%) Validation
10 11 (7.75%) SDLC
11 10 (7.04%) DevOps
11 10 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (6.34%) Business Analytics
13 8 (5.63%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 8 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
14 7 (4.93%) Batch Processing
15 6 (4.23%) Decision-Making
15 6 (4.23%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 55 (38.73%) SQL
2 43 (30.28%) PL/SQL
3 11 (7.75%) Java
4 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.23%) C#
5 6 (4.23%) Python
6 4 (2.82%) C
6 4 (2.82%) ProC
Qualifications
1 63 (44.37%) Security Cleared
2 60 (42.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.82%) Degree
4 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) SLA
3 2 (1.41%) COBIT
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
3 2 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Identity Management
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.70%) Control-M
2 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) SELinux
2 1 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 142 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.93%) Talend
3 4 (2.82%) IBM
4 2 (1.41%) Siebel
4 2 (1.41%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.70%) ATG
5 1 (0.70%) Denodo
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) Informatica
5 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow