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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 357 453
Rank change year-on-year -122 +96 +26
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 205 185 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.57% 0.29%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.34% 6.51% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 122 61
10th Percentile £456 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £493 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile £755 £744 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -12.00% +20.48% -9.78%
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 3,841 2,840 2,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.74% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 1,609 1,511
10th Percentile £360 £360 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 52 77
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £24.80
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £38.75 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -21.16% -18.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.30 £74.75 £65.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.23% -1.69% -19.01%

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 September 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 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle EBS in the UK

Oracle EBS
Top 13 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 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 -132 166 £590 -1.67% 68
London -54 112 £550 -6.78% 40
Work from Home -67 62 £575 -8.00% 49
UK excluding London -115 49 £550 -12.00% 39
North of England -64 16 £425 -37.96% 10
South East -91 16 £630 +0.80% 5
Scotland -18 9 £563 +11.39% 2
Yorkshire -42 8 £513 -28.82%
Midlands -47 6 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 5 £453 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £525 - 1
North West -53 3 £415 -36.15% 6
East of England - 2 £500 - 4

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 (5.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 10 (4.88%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.93%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (18.05%) Oracle EBS R12
2 21 (10.24%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (9.27%) Oracle Payroll
4 16 (7.80%) Oracle Financials
4 16 (7.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 16 (7.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (6.83%) NetSuite
6 11 (5.37%) Oracle Assets
6 11 (5.37%) Oracle iProcurement
7 10 (4.88%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle Cash Management
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle FAH
8 7 (3.41%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 6 (2.93%) Magento
9 6 (2.93%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 4 (1.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 3 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
12 2 (0.98%) Infor CloudSuite
12 2 (0.98%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.59%) OCI
2 14 (6.83%) AWS
3 12 (5.85%) AtomSphere
3 12 (5.85%) Boomi
4 9 (4.39%) Azure
5 8 (3.90%) PaaS
6 7 (3.41%) Serverless
7 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.93%) GitHub
8 5 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.95%) SaaS
10 3 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.98%) Apigee
11 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) DNS
1 1 (0.49%) Firewall
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.66%) Oracle Reports
2 21 (10.24%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.93%) Oracle Database 10g
4 6 (2.93%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (2.93%) Oracle Database 12c
4 6 (2.93%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.46%) Power BI
7 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.49%) AlloyDB
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.49%) QlikView
8 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.24%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (5.85%) Git
3 7 (3.41%) JDeveloper
4 5 (2.44%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.95%) Flyway
6 3 (1.46%) JIRA
6 3 (1.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.98%) Toad
8 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.49%) HP UFT
General
1 73 (35.61%) Finance
2 38 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.76%) General Ledger
6 14 (6.83%) Banking
7 8 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.90%) Legal
8 7 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.44%) Retail
10 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.98%) Military
10 2 (0.98%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.49%) Aviation
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (42.93%) Consultant
2 87 (42.44%) Oracle Consultant
3 33 (16.10%) Functional Consultant
3 33 (16.10%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 31 (15.12%) Payroll Consultant
5 30 (14.63%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 27 (13.17%) Senior
7 26 (12.68%) Developer
8 21 (10.24%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 21 (10.24%) Technical Consultant
9 18 (8.78%) Oracle Developer
9 18 (8.78%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
10 15 (7.32%) Architect
10 15 (7.32%) DBA
10 15 (7.32%) Oracle DBA
11 14 (6.83%) Lead
12 13 (6.34%) Analyst
13 11 (5.37%) Business Analyst
13 11 (5.37%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.39%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (11.22%) XML
3 17 (8.29%) REST
4 15 (7.32%) SOAP
5 12 (5.85%) JSON
5 12 (5.85%) Middleware
6 3 (1.46%) Web Services
7 2 (0.98%) .NET
7 2 (0.98%) ADO
7 2 (0.98%) LangChain
7 2 (0.98%) pydantic
7 2 (0.98%) Terraform
8 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.49%) EDI
8 1 (0.49%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.93%) Clustering
1 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.49%) FMCG
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.34%) Unix
2 10 (4.88%) Linux
3 3 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (18.54%) ERP
3 37 (18.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 34 (16.59%) Migration
5 31 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (9.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (8.78%) Data Modelling
9 16 (7.80%) Agile
9 16 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (7.80%) Data Migration
9 16 (7.80%) Impact Assessments
9 16 (7.80%) System Integration Testing
10 15 (7.32%) DevOps
10 15 (7.32%) Process Improvement
10 15 (7.32%) System Testing
10 15 (7.32%) Validation
11 14 (6.83%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (5.85%) API Management
12 12 (5.85%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.41%) SQL
2 39 (19.02%) PL/SQL
3 12 (5.85%) Groovy
3 12 (5.85%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.39%) Java
5 7 (3.41%) Python
6 5 (2.44%) Ruby
7 4 (1.95%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.49%) Bicep
8 1 (0.49%) C#
8 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.39%) Degree
4 6 (2.93%) ACCA
4 6 (2.93%) CIMA
5 3 (1.46%) APMG
5 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.95%) IFRS
2 4 (1.95%) PMO
3 2 (0.98%) QA
3 2 (0.98%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 10 (4.88%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (1.95%) Data Guard
2 4 (1.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 205 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (9.76%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.41%) SAP
5 4 (1.95%) Talend
5 4 (1.95%) Workday
6 3 (1.46%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.98%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (0.98%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.98%) Epicor
7 2 (0.98%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.98%) IFS
7 2 (0.98%) Infor
7 2 (0.98%) QAD
7 2 (0.98%) Sage
7 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.98%) Zuora
8 1 (0.49%) Databricks
8 1 (0.49%) Foundry
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI