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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 495 450
Rank change year-on-year -9 -45 +34
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 185 72 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 51 72
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £465 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £556 £488
% change year-on-year -10.11% +14.10% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 50,616 30,052 35,689
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.07% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,900 18,989 21,757
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,913 1,614 1,619
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.88
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.02% -42.72% +0.34%

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 25 September 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 14 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 25 September 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 -33 151 £500 -9.09% 25
UK excluding London +10 132 £500 -10.11% 15
Work from Home -39 55 £475 -16.67% 17
South East -41 41 £475 -20.83% 1
London -97 38 £500 -7.41% 12
South West -4 35 £565 +36.14%
Scotland -9 20 £325 -33.33%
Midlands -29 18 £438 -21.35% 9
East of England - 12 £625 -
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 5
East Midlands -7 6 £525 -5.62% 4
Yorkshire - 6 - - 2
North of England - 6 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 185 (100.00%) Oracle
2 88 (47.57%) Security Cleared
3 84 (45.41%) SC Cleared
4 67 (36.22%) SQL
5 59 (31.89%) PL/SQL
6 42 (22.70%) OCI
6 42 (22.70%) Oracle Reports
7 41 (22.16%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (19.46%) Analytics
9 35 (18.92%) Oracle Fusion
10 33 (17.84%) ETL
11 32 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (17.30%) Data Modelling
12 28 (15.14%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (14.05%) Migration
14 25 (13.51%) Agile
14 25 (13.51%) Oracle Database
15 23 (12.43%) Oracle ODI
16 21 (11.35%) Java
17 18 (9.73%) ERP
18 17 (9.19%) DevOps
18 17 (9.19%) Oracle Application Server
18 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (8.65%) Oracle EBS
19 16 (8.65%) Oracle Forms
20 15 (8.11%) Business Analytics
21 14 (7.57%) Oracle Payroll
22 13 (7.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
22 13 (7.03%) REST
23 12 (6.49%) IBM

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 17 (9.19%) Oracle Application Server
2 12 (6.49%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.32%) Confluence
3 8 (4.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.62%) nginx
4 3 (1.62%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.95%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (8.65%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (7.57%) Oracle Payroll
3 9 (4.86%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (4.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (4.32%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (4.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (3.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle FAH
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.54%) BigMachines
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.70%) OCI
2 8 (4.32%) AWS
3 7 (3.78%) Azure
3 7 (3.78%) Oracle CX
4 6 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.16%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.16%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 3 (1.62%) SaaS
7 2 (1.08%) PaaS
7 2 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.54%) GitHub
8 1 (0.54%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) HTTP
2 2 (1.08%) FTP
3 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.70%) Oracle Reports
2 41 (22.16%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (13.51%) Oracle Database
4 23 (12.43%) Oracle ODI
5 13 (7.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 11 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.16%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.08%) Siebel EIM
10 2 (1.08%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.54%) DataStage
11 1 (0.54%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.54%) Power BI
11 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.65%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (5.41%) Git
3 9 (4.86%) JIRA
3 9 (4.86%) Oracle APEX
4 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.16%) Gradle
5 4 (2.16%) JDeveloper
5 4 (2.16%) Subversion
6 3 (1.62%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.62%) PVCS
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) GitLab
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 34 (18.38%) Finance
2 21 (11.35%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.27%) Social Skills
4 17 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.03%) Banking
6 5 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.62%) General Ledger
7 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Local Government
8 2 (1.08%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Back Office
9 1 (0.54%) Front Office
9 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (7.03%) REST
3 10 (5.41%) XML
4 7 (3.78%) Spring
4 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.24%) JSON
5 6 (3.24%) SOAP
6 5 (2.70%) HTML
6 5 (2.70%) Kafka
6 5 (2.70%) React
7 4 (2.16%) .NET
7 4 (2.16%) CSS
7 4 (2.16%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.16%) Redux
8 3 (1.62%) Middleware
8 3 (1.62%) Node.js
8 3 (1.62%) OAuth
8 3 (1.62%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.62%) RESTful
8 3 (1.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Linux
1 8 (4.32%) Unix
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (19.46%) Analytics
2 33 (17.84%) ETL
3 32 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (17.30%) Data Modelling
4 28 (15.14%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (14.05%) Migration
6 25 (13.51%) Agile
7 18 (9.73%) ERP
8 17 (9.19%) DevOps
8 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.11%) Business Analytics
10 11 (5.95%) Data Migration
10 11 (5.95%) Validation
11 10 (5.41%) SDLC
11 10 (5.41%) Software Engineering
12 8 (4.32%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
12 8 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (4.32%) ETL Development
12 8 (4.32%) Information Security
12 8 (4.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.22%) SQL
2 59 (31.89%) PL/SQL
3 21 (11.35%) Java
4 10 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.16%) C#
5 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.62%) C
6 3 (1.62%) ProC
7 2 (1.08%) Python
8 1 (0.54%) Groovy
8 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (47.57%) Security Cleared
2 84 (45.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.70%) Degree
4 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.62%) QA
2 3 (1.62%) SLA
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.16%) Control-M
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle Identity Management
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) SELinux
3 1 (0.54%) systemd
Vendors
1 185 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.49%) IBM
3 7 (3.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.78%) Talend
4 2 (1.08%) Siebel
4 2 (1.08%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.54%) ATG
5 1 (0.54%) Citrix
5 1 (0.54%) Denodo
5 1 (0.54%) Informatica
5 1 (0.54%) jBASE
5 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.54%) Temenos