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 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 449 486
Rank change year-on-year -36 +37 +68
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Developer 76 114 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 110
10th Percentile £409 £413 £417
25th Percentile £464 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £600
90th Percentile £625 £698 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £581 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +19.23% -11.36% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,175 35,003 44,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 92.96% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,066 21,137 30,622
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 1,436 1,528
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.08 £14.60
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.52 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%

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 15 October 2025.

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 9 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 15 October 2025. 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 -22 62 £550 +8.37% 13
Work from Home +6 37 £559 +14.67% 12
London -12 37 £500 -9.09% 2
UK excluding London -34 22 £581 +19.23% 15
South East +24 18 £600 +20.00% 9
East Midlands -10 2 £556 +30.88%
Midlands -24 2 £556 +30.88%
South West +2 1 £550 +17.33% 1
Scotland -6 1 £450 -11.11% 4

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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 76 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (78.95%) SQL
3 42 (55.26%) PL/SQL
4 39 (51.32%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (44.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 31 (40.79%) Social Skills
6 31 (40.79%) Oracle Reports
7 29 (38.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 27 (35.53%) Finance
9 22 (28.95%) Agile
10 21 (27.63%) Oracle EBS
10 21 (27.63%) ERP
11 18 (23.68%) Workflow
11 18 (23.68%) Oracle Workflow
11 18 (23.68%) REST
11 18 (23.68%) OCI
12 16 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (18.42%) Oracle Payables
13 14 (18.42%) Oracle Assets
13 14 (18.42%) Data Modelling
13 14 (18.42%) Java
14 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
14 13 (17.11%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (15.79%) Oracle Database
15 12 (15.79%) Oracle General Ledger
15 12 (15.79%) General Ledger
16 11 (14.47%) SOAP
17 10 (13.16%) Unix
17 10 (13.16%) Oracle Forms

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 18 (23.68%) Oracle Workflow
2 8 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.63%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (18.42%) Oracle Assets
3 14 (18.42%) Oracle Payables
4 12 (15.79%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (13.16%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (7.89%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payroll
8 3 (3.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (3.95%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (3.95%) SAP ERP
9 2 (2.63%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (1.32%) Cloudability
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle iProcurement
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) OCI
2 4 (5.26%) PaaS
3 3 (3.95%) AWS
4 2 (2.63%) SaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.32%) Azure
5 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.32%) GitHub
5 1 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.32%) MinIO
5 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 31 (40.79%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (15.79%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.63%) MySQL
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.32%) Metadata
7 1 (1.32%) OLAP
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (11.84%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.63%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) Hudson
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 27 (35.53%) Finance
3 12 (15.79%) General Ledger
4 10 (13.16%) Banking
5 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Billing
7 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.32%) Automotive
9 1 (1.32%) Back Office
9 1 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Local Government
9 1 (1.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (38.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (23.68%) REST
3 11 (14.47%) SOAP
4 8 (10.53%) jQuery
5 7 (9.21%) CSS
5 7 (9.21%) JSON
5 7 (9.21%) XML
6 6 (7.89%) HTML
6 6 (7.89%) Web Services
7 5 (6.58%) OAuth
7 5 (6.58%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.58%) XSL
8 4 (5.26%) Ajax
8 4 (5.26%) Middleware
9 3 (3.95%) .NET
9 3 (3.95%) RESTful
9 3 (3.95%) Swagger
10 2 (2.63%) Java EE
10 2 (2.63%) JSP
11 1 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.95%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Unix
2 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Windows
4 1 (1.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (51.32%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (28.95%) Agile
3 21 (27.63%) ERP
4 18 (23.68%) Workflow
5 14 (18.42%) Data Modelling
5 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.11%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (13.16%) Accounts Payable
7 10 (13.16%) Scrum
8 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.53%) SOA
10 7 (9.21%) Information Security
10 7 (9.21%) Information Security Management
10 7 (9.21%) Migration
10 7 (9.21%) Security Management
11 6 (7.89%) Change Management
11 6 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.89%) SDLC
11 6 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (6.58%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 60 (78.95%) SQL
2 42 (55.26%) PL/SQL
3 14 (18.42%) Java
4 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.53%) C#
6 7 (9.21%) Groovy
7 4 (5.26%) PHP
8 2 (2.63%) Python
9 1 (1.32%) Perl
9 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) COBIT
1 7 (9.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (9.21%) NIST
2 3 (3.95%) SLA
3 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.95%) SAP
3 1 (1.32%) IBM
3 1 (1.32%) Informatica
3 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.32%) Teradata
3 1 (1.32%) Vertica
3 1 (1.32%) VMware