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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 359 449
Rank change year-on-year -108 +90 +31
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 223 203 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.62% 0.30%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.78% 7.23% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 139 71
10th Percentile £450 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £498 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -1.64% +10.41%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £700
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £623 £575
% change year-on-year -8.63% +8.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £41.19 £53.38 -
25th Percentile £48.59 £54.69 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% - -
75th Percentile £80.47 £62.19 -
90th Percentile £88.81 £63.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 - -

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 3,859 2,807 2,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.17% 8.56% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 1,605 1,617
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £458 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £660 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 54 85
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.76 £23.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.16% -15.62%
75th Percentile £71.91 £62.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.80 £74.25 £65.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -1.69% -20.34%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -105 184 £563 -6.25% 15
London -52 117 £550 -5.58% 9
Work from Home -72 61 £575 -8.00% 9
UK excluding London -116 61 £569 -8.63% 10
South East -97 25 £630 +0.80% 4
North of England -57 20 £425 -33.07%
Yorkshire -28 12 £513 -
Scotland -11 8 £575 +13.86% 1
Midlands -46 6 £525 +5.00%
North East - 5 £453 -
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West -54 3 £415 -34.65%
East of England - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 12 (5.38%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (17.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 21 (9.42%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (7.17%) Oracle Payroll
4 15 (6.73%) Oracle Financials
5 14 (6.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 14 (6.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 13 (5.83%) NetSuite
7 11 (4.93%) Oracle Applications
7 11 (4.93%) Oracle Assets
8 10 (4.48%) Oracle iProcurement
9 8 (3.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (3.14%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (2.69%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (2.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (2.24%) Magento
12 5 (2.24%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
14 2 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
14 2 (0.90%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.28%) OCI
2 15 (6.73%) AWS
3 13 (5.83%) PaaS
4 11 (4.93%) AtomSphere
4 11 (4.93%) Boomi
4 11 (4.93%) GitHub
5 9 (4.04%) Azure
6 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.35%) SaaS
9 2 (0.90%) Apigee
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.45%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.73%) Oracle Reports
2 17 (7.62%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.69%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (0.90%) Power BI
5 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.45%) AlloyDB
6 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (9.42%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (5.38%) Git
3 7 (3.14%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.35%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) JIRA
5 2 (0.90%) Toad
6 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.45%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 75 (33.63%) Finance
2 51 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.97%) General Ledger
6 13 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.38%) Banking
8 6 (2.69%) Legal
8 6 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.24%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.45%) Aviation
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (40.36%) Consultant
2 89 (39.91%) Oracle Consultant
3 34 (15.25%) Functional Consultant
3 34 (15.25%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 30 (13.45%) Senior
5 28 (12.56%) Payroll Consultant
6 27 (12.11%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
7 23 (10.31%) Architect
7 23 (10.31%) Developer
7 23 (10.31%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 23 (10.31%) Technical Consultant
8 19 (8.52%) Lead
9 17 (7.62%) Oracle Developer
10 15 (6.73%) Analyst
10 15 (6.73%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.93%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.48%) DBA
12 10 (4.48%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.04%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (9.87%) XML
3 16 (7.17%) REST
4 14 (6.28%) SOAP
5 11 (4.93%) JSON
6 10 (4.48%) Middleware
7 2 (0.90%) .NET
7 2 (0.90%) ADO
7 2 (0.90%) LangChain
7 2 (0.90%) pydantic
7 2 (0.90%) Terraform
7 2 (0.90%) Web Services
8 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.45%) EDI
8 1 (0.45%) pgvector
8 1 (0.45%) Playwright
8 1 (0.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.35%) NHS
5 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.90%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.90%) Life Science
6 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.45%) FMCG
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.45%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.69%) Unix
2 4 (1.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.42%) ERP
1 50 (22.42%) Migration
2 40 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (17.49%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (14.80%) Data Migration
6 27 (12.11%) Validation
7 20 (8.97%) Data Modelling
7 20 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (8.07%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (8.07%) System Integration Testing
9 15 (6.73%) Agile
9 15 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (6.28%) CI/CD
11 13 (5.83%) Analytics
11 13 (5.83%) Event-Driven
11 13 (5.83%) Impact Assessments
11 13 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (5.83%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (22.87%) SQL
2 40 (17.94%) PL/SQL
3 14 (6.28%) Python
4 13 (5.83%) Java
5 11 (4.93%) Groovy
5 11 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.93%) Ruby
6 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.14%) Degree
4 4 (1.79%) ACCA
4 4 (1.79%) CIMA
4 4 (1.79%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.79%) PMP
5 3 (1.35%) APMG
5 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.69%) PMO
3 3 (1.35%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) GxP
4 2 (0.90%) IFRS
4 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.35%) Data Guard
1 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 223 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (8.52%) Salesforce
3 13 (5.83%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.14%) SAP
5 4 (1.79%) Talend
5 4 (1.79%) Workday
6 2 (0.90%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (0.90%) Anaplan
6 2 (0.90%) Epicor
6 2 (0.90%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.90%) IFS
6 2 (0.90%) Infor
6 2 (0.90%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.90%) QAD
6 2 (0.90%) Sage
6 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.90%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.90%) Zuora
7 1 (0.45%) Foundry
7 1 (0.45%) Google