Oracle EBS Contract Job Trends

Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle EBS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 373 428
Rank change year-on-year -54 +55 +135
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 209 154 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.12% 6.38% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 98 90
10th Percentile £453 £412 £314
25th Percentile £525 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £643
90th Percentile £751 £683 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £619 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% +19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.20 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Oracle EBS falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,415 2,412 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.23% 8.24% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 1,351 1,894
10th Percentile £362 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 50 118
10th Percentile £20.36 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.88 £38.58 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £88.45 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% +50.00% -18.37%

Oracle EBS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle EBS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle EBS job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle EBS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle EBS

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle EBS over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle EBS in the UK

Oracle EBS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle EBS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle EBS

Oracle EBS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle EBS over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle EBS in the UK

Oracle EBS
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 EBS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -58 171 £600 -0.08% 17
UK excluding London -63 112 £619 -1.00% 9
South East -29 83 £623 -0.40% 4
Work from Home -27 75 £599 -4.16% 8
London -47 55 £550 +10.00% 10
North of England -68 15 £555 -14.94% 4
Yorkshire - 9 £639 - 4
Midlands -69 8 £525 - 1
Scotland - 5 £616 -
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £663 -
North East -21 2 £280 -46.41%
North West -52 2 £555 -15.91%
Wales - 1 £550 -

Oracle EBS
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 8 (3.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 7 (3.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.91%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.96%) Liferay
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 53 (25.36%) Oracle EBS R12
2 30 (14.35%) Oracle Payables
3 26 (12.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (10.53%) Oracle Assets
5 20 (9.57%) Oracle General Ledger
6 19 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (7.66%) Oracle Cash Management
8 11 (5.26%) Oracle AGIS
8 11 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (4.78%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (3.83%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (3.83%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 4 (1.91%) NetSuite
11 4 (1.91%) Oracle Payroll
12 3 (1.44%) Dynamics AX
12 3 (1.44%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (1.44%) Dynamics SL
12 3 (1.44%) Infor CloudSuite
12 3 (1.44%) Sage X3
12 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.79%) OCI
2 14 (6.70%) SaaS
3 10 (4.78%) AWS
4 7 (3.35%) GitHub
4 7 (3.35%) PaaS
5 6 (2.87%) Azure
5 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.48%) Apigee
8 1 (0.48%) Sentry
8 1 (0.48%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
2 17 (8.13%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.87%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (2.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (2.39%) Oracle ODI
5 4 (1.91%) Power BI
6 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.96%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.48%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.48%) OLTP
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (8.61%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (3.35%) Git
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (1.44%) Selenium
4 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.96%) Postman
4 2 (0.96%) Toad
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.48%) TestComplete
General
1 68 (32.54%) Finance
2 62 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.48%) General Ledger
5 16 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.87%) Banking
8 5 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.96%) Billing
11 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.96%) Legal
11 2 (0.96%) Local Government
11 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Law
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (37.32%) Consultant
2 73 (34.93%) Oracle Consultant
3 48 (22.97%) Lead
4 39 (18.66%) Functional Consultant
5 35 (16.75%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 21 (10.05%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 21 (10.05%) Technical Consultant
7 16 (7.66%) Architect
8 14 (6.70%) Developer
8 14 (6.70%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (6.70%) Oracle Financials Consultant
9 13 (6.22%) Payroll Consultant
10 12 (5.74%) Analyst
10 12 (5.74%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
10 12 (5.74%) Project Manager
11 11 (5.26%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
11 11 (5.26%) Service Transition Leader
12 10 (4.78%) DBA
12 10 (4.78%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.31%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (4.31%) Middleware
3 3 (1.44%) Web Services
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle ADF
4 2 (0.96%) Playwright
4 2 (0.96%) pytest
4 2 (0.96%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) EDI
5 1 (0.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.48%) WebCenter
5 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.44%) NHS
5 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.96%) Life Science
7 1 (0.48%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.48%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.48%) FMCG
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.48%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.91%) Unix
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.45%) Migration
2 61 (29.19%) ERP
3 53 (25.36%) Data Migration
4 42 (20.10%) User Acceptance Testing
5 40 (19.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (17.22%) Validation
7 23 (11.00%) Accounts Payable
8 22 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.57%) System Integration Testing
10 19 (9.09%) Accounts Receivable
10 19 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
11 17 (8.13%) Data Validation
12 16 (7.66%) Agile
12 16 (7.66%) Data Cleansing
13 15 (7.18%) Cash Management
14 14 (6.70%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (6.22%) Data Modelling
15 13 (6.22%) ITIL
16 12 (5.74%) ITSM
16 12 (5.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.97%) SQL
2 37 (17.70%) PL/SQL
3 9 (4.31%) Python
4 7 (3.35%) Java
4 7 (3.35%) Ruby
5 2 (0.96%) Perl
5 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) C
6 1 (0.48%) Korn
6 1 (0.48%) ProC
Qualifications
1 21 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.35%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.87%) PMP
5 5 (2.39%) Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.48%) APMG
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) QA
2 10 (4.78%) COBIT
2 10 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.78%) NIST
3 9 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (2.39%) PMO
6 3 (1.44%) ITGC
6 3 (1.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) GxP
8 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.91%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.91%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (0.96%) CEMLI
2 2 (0.96%) Data Guard
2 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (0.96%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) Kibana
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 209 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.91%) Epicor
4 4 (1.91%) SAP
5 3 (1.44%) Adaptive Insights
5 3 (1.44%) Anaplan
5 3 (1.44%) ExaGrid
5 3 (1.44%) IFS
5 3 (1.44%) Infor
5 3 (1.44%) QAD
5 3 (1.44%) Sage
5 3 (1.44%) Workday
5 3 (1.44%) Zuora
6 2 (0.96%) HP
6 2 (0.96%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.48%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Talend