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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 369 432
Rank change year-on-year -77 +63 +75
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 229 196 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.93% 7.05% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 137 85
10th Percentile £450 £413 £499
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £665 £688
90th Percentile £726 £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 3,859 2,780 2,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.24% 8.45% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 1,600 1,727
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% - -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £679
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 60 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £18.28 £22.98
25th Percentile £28.38 £27.23 £35.90
Median hourly rate £46.50 £44.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -0.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.50 £82.75 £65.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.91% +30.56% -18.18%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -102 186 £561 -6.46% 23
London -40 117 £550 -6.78% 15
Work from Home -70 66 £573 -8.40% 18
UK excluding London -110 61 £563 -10.00% 10
South East -91 27 £630 +0.80% 1
North of England -66 20 £425 -35.61% 4
Yorkshire -28 12 £513 - 3
Scotland -9 6 £550 +8.91%
Midlands -49 6 £525 +5.00%
North East - 5 £453 -
East Midlands - 4 £525 -
North West -63 3 £415 -37.12% 1
West Midlands -63 1 - -
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
East of England - 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 (5.24%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (17.03%) Oracle EBS R12
2 22 (9.61%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (6.99%) Oracle Financials
4 15 (6.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (6.11%) NetSuite
5 14 (6.11%) Oracle Payroll
6 12 (5.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (4.80%) Oracle Applications
7 11 (4.80%) Oracle Assets
8 9 (3.93%) Oracle iProcurement
9 8 (3.49%) Oracle Cash Management
9 8 (3.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (3.06%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (3.06%) Oracle FAH
10 7 (3.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (2.18%) Magento
12 4 (1.75%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 4 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
13 3 (1.31%) Infor CloudSuite
13 3 (1.31%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.21%) OCI
2 15 (6.55%) AWS
3 13 (5.68%) PaaS
4 12 (5.24%) GitHub
5 11 (4.80%) AtomSphere
5 11 (4.80%) Boomi
6 9 (3.93%) Azure
7 5 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.31%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.31%) SaaS
9 2 (0.87%) Apigee
10 1 (0.44%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.44%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.21%) Oracle Reports
2 20 (8.73%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.62%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (0.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) AlloyDB
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (10.48%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (5.68%) Git
3 7 (3.06%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.31%) Selenium
5 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.87%) JIRA
5 2 (0.87%) Postman
5 2 (0.87%) Toad
6 1 (0.44%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
General
1 72 (31.44%) Finance
2 50 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.30%) General Ledger
6 11 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.37%) Banking
8 6 (2.62%) Legal
8 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.18%) Military
9 5 (2.18%) Retail
10 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.87%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.44%) Aviation
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (40.17%) Consultant
2 91 (39.74%) Oracle Consultant
3 34 (14.85%) Functional Consultant
3 34 (14.85%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 30 (13.10%) Senior
5 27 (11.79%) Payroll Consultant
6 26 (11.35%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
7 25 (10.92%) Developer
8 24 (10.48%) Architect
9 23 (10.04%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 23 (10.04%) Technical Consultant
10 22 (9.61%) Lead
11 19 (8.30%) Oracle Developer
12 14 (6.11%) Analyst
12 14 (6.11%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
13 12 (5.24%) Technical Architect
14 11 (4.80%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.37%) DBA
15 10 (4.37%) Oracle DBA
16 9 (3.93%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (9.61%) XML
3 17 (7.42%) REST
4 14 (6.11%) SOAP
5 11 (4.80%) JSON
6 10 (4.37%) Middleware
7 2 (0.87%) .NET
7 2 (0.87%) ADO
7 2 (0.87%) LangChain
7 2 (0.87%) Playwright
7 2 (0.87%) pydantic
7 2 (0.87%) pytest
7 2 (0.87%) Web Services
8 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.44%) EDI
8 1 (0.44%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.18%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.31%) NHS
6 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.87%) Life Science
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.44%) FMCG
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.44%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.62%) Unix
2 4 (1.75%) Windows
3 3 (1.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.89%) Migration
2 52 (22.71%) ERP
3 41 (17.90%) Data Migration
4 40 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (16.59%) User Acceptance Testing
6 35 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (14.41%) Validation
8 21 (9.17%) Data Modelling
9 18 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (7.86%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (7.42%) System Integration Testing
11 16 (6.99%) Agile
11 16 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (6.55%) CI/CD
12 15 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (5.68%) Analytics
13 13 (5.68%) Event-Driven
13 13 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (5.68%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (5.68%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.58%) SQL
2 44 (19.21%) PL/SQL
3 15 (6.55%) Python
4 13 (5.68%) Java
5 11 (4.80%) Groovy
5 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.80%) Ruby
6 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.44%) Bicep
7 1 (0.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.18%) Degree
4 4 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.75%) PMP
5 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) ACCA
7 1 (0.44%) APMG
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CIMA
7 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.62%) QA
3 5 (2.18%) PMO
4 3 (1.31%) COBIT
4 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.31%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) GxP
5 2 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.31%) Data Guard
2 3 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.44%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 229 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (8.30%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.62%) SAP
5 4 (1.75%) Talend
6 3 (1.31%) Adaptive Insights
6 3 (1.31%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.31%) Epicor
6 3 (1.31%) IFS
6 3 (1.31%) Infor
6 3 (1.31%) QAD
6 3 (1.31%) Sage
6 3 (1.31%) Workday
6 3 (1.31%) Zuora
7 2 (0.87%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.87%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.87%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.44%) Foundry
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAI