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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 357 453
Rank change year-on-year -127 +96 +21
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 198 199 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.60% 0.31%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.14% 6.95% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 133 70
10th Percentile £456 £415 £409
25th Percentile £500 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £589
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +5.31% +2.39%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £744 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £505
% change year-on-year -12.00% +23.76% -12.17%
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 3,850 2,864 2,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 8.65% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 1,627 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £359 £361
25th Percentile £463 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £754 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 50 73
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.98 £25.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.18 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -21.69% -26.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.44 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.50 £85.10 £67.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.87 £38.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year -0.36% -5.77% -28.62%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -128 165 £600 - 56
London -64 110 £588 -1.26% 24
Work from Home -79 60 £600 -4.00% 43
UK excluding London -112 46 £550 -12.00% 38
South East -101 16 £630 +0.80% 3
North of England -70 15 £425 -37.96% 13
Scotland -16 7 £563 +11.39% 5
North West -49 6 £415 -36.15% 7
East of England -31 5 £500 +13.64% 1
North East - 5 £453 - 4
Yorkshire -31 4 £425 -40.97% 2
Midlands -41 3 £525 +5.00% 7
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 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 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.56%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (3.03%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (15.66%) Oracle EBS R12
2 24 (12.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 23 (11.62%) Oracle General Ledger
4 22 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll
5 21 (10.61%) Oracle Payables
6 20 (10.10%) Oracle Financials
7 18 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
8 15 (7.58%) NetSuite
9 13 (6.57%) Oracle ERP
10 12 (6.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 12 (6.06%) Oracle iProcurement
11 8 (4.04%) Oracle Internet Expenses
12 7 (3.54%) Oracle Applications
12 7 (3.54%) Oracle Cash Management
12 7 (3.54%) Oracle FAH
13 6 (3.03%) Magento
14 4 (2.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
16 2 (1.01%) Infor CloudSuite
16 2 (1.01%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.19%) OCI
2 15 (7.58%) AWS
3 13 (6.57%) AtomSphere
3 13 (6.57%) Boomi
4 9 (4.55%) Azure
5 7 (3.54%) PaaS
5 7 (3.54%) Serverless
6 6 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.03%) GitHub
7 5 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.02%) SaaS
9 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) DNS
1 1 (0.51%) Firewall
1 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.60%) Oracle Database
1 19 (9.60%) Oracle Reports
2 12 (6.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
3 6 (3.03%) Oracle Database 11g
3 6 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.51%) AlloyDB
6 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Power BI
6 1 (0.51%) QlikView
6 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (6.06%) Git
3 7 (3.54%) JDeveloper
4 5 (2.53%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (2.02%) Flyway
6 2 (1.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.01%) Toad
7 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.51%) HP UFT
General
1 80 (40.40%) Finance
2 38 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.62%) General Ledger
6 15 (7.58%) Banking
7 8 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.04%) Legal
8 7 (3.54%) Billing
8 7 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Military
10 3 (1.52%) Back Office
10 3 (1.52%) Retail
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Local Government
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (42.42%) Consultant
1 84 (42.42%) Oracle Consultant
2 32 (16.16%) Functional Consultant
2 32 (16.16%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 28 (14.14%) Senior
4 27 (13.64%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
4 27 (13.64%) Payroll Consultant
5 24 (12.12%) Developer
6 19 (9.60%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
7 16 (8.08%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 16 (8.08%) Technical Consultant
8 15 (7.58%) Oracle Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Architect
9 14 (7.07%) DBA
9 14 (7.07%) Oracle DBA
10 13 (6.57%) Analyst
11 12 (6.06%) Lead
12 11 (5.56%) Business Analyst
12 11 (5.56%) Senior Developer
13 10 (5.05%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (12.12%) XML
3 18 (9.09%) REST
4 16 (8.08%) SOAP
5 13 (6.57%) JSON
5 13 (6.57%) Middleware
6 4 (2.02%) Web Services
7 2 (1.01%) .NET
7 2 (1.01%) ADO
7 2 (1.01%) LangChain
7 2 (1.01%) pydantic
7 2 (1.01%) Terraform
8 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.51%) EDI
8 1 (0.51%) pgvector
8 1 (0.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.03%) Clustering
3 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.51%) FMCG
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.07%) Unix
2 11 (5.56%) Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (22.73%) ERP
2 41 (20.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 36 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (17.17%) Migration
6 21 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (9.60%) Impact Assessments
7 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (8.59%) System Testing
9 16 (8.08%) Agile
9 16 (8.08%) Data Modelling
9 16 (8.08%) System Integration Testing
10 15 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (7.58%) DevOps
10 15 (7.58%) Process Improvement
11 14 (7.07%) Data Migration
11 14 (7.07%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (6.57%) Validation
13 12 (6.06%) API Management
13 12 (6.06%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.69%) SQL
2 27 (13.64%) PL/SQL
3 13 (6.57%) Groovy
3 13 (6.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.04%) Java
5 7 (3.54%) Python
6 4 (2.02%) Ruby
6 4 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) Bicep
7 1 (0.51%) C#
7 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.55%) Degree
4 7 (3.54%) ACCA
4 7 (3.54%) CIMA
5 3 (1.52%) APMG
5 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.02%) IFRS
2 4 (2.02%) PMO
3 2 (1.01%) QA
3 2 (1.01%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 11 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (2.53%) Data Guard
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 198 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (10.10%) Salesforce
3 14 (7.07%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.54%) SAP
5 4 (2.02%) Talend
5 4 (2.02%) Workday
6 3 (1.52%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.01%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (1.01%) Anaplan
7 2 (1.01%) Epicor
7 2 (1.01%) IFS
7 2 (1.01%) Infor
7 2 (1.01%) QAD
7 2 (1.01%) Sage
7 2 (1.01%) Zuora
8 1 (0.51%) Databricks
8 1 (0.51%) Foundry
8 1 (0.51%) Google
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow