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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 343 445
Rank change year-on-year -106 +102 +29
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 224 213 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.64% 0.32%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.80% 7.47% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 145 81
10th Percentile £450 £413 £488
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £610
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +1.64% +10.41%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
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 3,863 2,850 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.19% 8.61% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,172 1,629 1,659
10th Percentile £360 £360 £353
25th Percentile £456 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £665 £676
90th Percentile £745 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 57 85
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.52 £23.65
25th Percentile £26.32 £26.72 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -10.02% -16.15%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.40 £79.50 £65.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £51.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +14.43% -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 16 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 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle EBS in the UK

Oracle EBS
Top 15 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 16 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 -116 186 £563 -6.25% 24
London -47 117 £550 -7.56% 15
Work from Home -89 62 £575 -8.00% 16
UK excluding London -116 61 £563 -10.00% 8
South East -103 26 £630 +0.80% 2
North of England -74 20 £425 -35.61%
Yorkshire -33 12 £513 -
Midlands -42 7 £525 +5.00%
Scotland -8 6 £550 +8.91% 1
North East - 5 £453 -
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West -55 3 £415 -37.12%
West Midlands -52 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
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 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.13%) 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 (17.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 22 (9.82%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (7.14%) Oracle Payroll
4 15 (6.70%) Oracle Financials
4 15 (6.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (6.25%) NetSuite
6 13 (5.80%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (4.91%) Oracle Applications
7 11 (4.91%) Oracle Assets
8 10 (4.46%) Oracle iProcurement
9 8 (3.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (2.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (2.23%) Magento
12 5 (2.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
14 3 (1.34%) Infor CloudSuite
14 3 (1.34%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.64%) OCI
2 15 (6.70%) AWS
3 13 (5.80%) PaaS
4 11 (4.91%) AtomSphere
4 11 (4.91%) Boomi
4 11 (4.91%) GitHub
5 9 (4.02%) Azure
6 5 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.34%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.34%) SaaS
8 2 (0.89%) Apigee
8 2 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.45%) Serverless
9 1 (0.45%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.64%) Oracle Reports
2 18 (8.04%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.68%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (0.89%) Power BI
5 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.89%) 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 Database 10g
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (9.82%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (5.36%) Git
3 7 (3.13%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.34%) Selenium
5 2 (0.89%) JIRA
5 2 (0.89%) 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 73 (32.59%) Finance
2 50 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.93%) General Ledger
6 12 (5.36%) Banking
7 11 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.68%) Legal
8 6 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.23%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Military
11 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.89%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.45%) Aviation
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Local Government
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (40.63%) Consultant
2 90 (40.18%) Oracle Consultant
3 34 (15.18%) Functional Consultant
3 34 (15.18%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 31 (13.84%) Senior
5 28 (12.50%) Payroll Consultant
6 27 (12.05%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
7 24 (10.71%) Developer
8 23 (10.27%) Architect
8 23 (10.27%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 23 (10.27%) Technical Consultant
9 20 (8.93%) Lead
10 18 (8.04%) Oracle Developer
11 15 (6.70%) Analyst
11 15 (6.70%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
12 11 (4.91%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.91%) Technical Architect
13 10 (4.46%) DBA
13 10 (4.46%) Oracle DBA
14 9 (4.02%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (9.82%) XML
3 16 (7.14%) REST
4 14 (6.25%) SOAP
5 11 (4.91%) JSON
6 10 (4.46%) Middleware
7 2 (0.89%) .NET
7 2 (0.89%) ADO
7 2 (0.89%) LangChain
7 2 (0.89%) pydantic
7 2 (0.89%) 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 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.34%) NHS
6 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Life Science
7 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.45%) FMCG
8 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.45%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.68%) Unix
2 4 (1.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (23.21%) ERP
1 52 (23.21%) Migration
2 39 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (16.96%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (15.63%) Data Migration
5 34 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (12.95%) Validation
7 21 (9.38%) Data Modelling
8 18 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (7.59%) System Integration Testing
10 15 (6.70%) Agile
10 15 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (6.25%) CI/CD
12 13 (5.80%) Analytics
12 13 (5.80%) Event-Driven
12 13 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (5.80%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (5.80%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.21%) SQL
2 42 (18.75%) PL/SQL
3 14 (6.25%) Python
4 13 (5.80%) Java
5 11 (4.91%) Groovy
5 11 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.91%) Ruby
6 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 41 (18.30%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.68%) Degree
4 4 (1.79%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.79%) PMP
5 3 (1.34%) ACCA
5 3 (1.34%) CIMA
5 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) APMG
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 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.68%) PMO
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 2 (0.89%) GxP
4 2 (0.89%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) COBIT
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) IFRS
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) Data Guard
1 3 (1.34%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.34%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (0.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 224 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (8.48%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.68%) SAP
5 4 (1.79%) Talend
6 3 (1.34%) Adaptive Insights
6 3 (1.34%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.34%) Epicor
6 3 (1.34%) IFS
6 3 (1.34%) Infor
6 3 (1.34%) QAD
6 3 (1.34%) Sage
6 3 (1.34%) Workday
6 3 (1.34%) Zuora
7 2 (0.89%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.89%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.45%) Foundry
8 1 (0.45%) Google