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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 378 451
Rank change year-on-year -91 +73 +31
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 213 181 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.56% 0.29%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.53% 6.49% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 122 63
10th Percentile £454 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £492 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £700
90th Percentile £754 £744 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
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 3,852 2,789 2,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.08% 8.59% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 1,579 1,520
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £528 £535
% change year-on-year -0.47% -1.40% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 52 79
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £24.90
25th Percentile £21.73 £25.25 £35.18
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -25.58% -18.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £62.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £72.50 £66.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £39.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.27% -12.22% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -106 174 £550 -8.33% 70
London -58 116 £550 -4.35% 42
Work from Home -71 63 £575 -8.00% 46
UK excluding London -116 54 £550 -12.00% 43
North of England -59 19 £425 -34.62% 9
South East -92 16 £630 +0.80% 8
Scotland -9 11 £575 +13.86% 3
Yorkshire -23 11 £513 - 1
Midlands -41 6 £525 +5.00% 3
North East - 5 £453 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £525 - 1
North West -48 3 £415 -36.15% 4
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 (5.63%) Oracle Workflow
2 11 (5.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (4.23%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.35%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (17.37%) Oracle EBS R12
2 21 (9.86%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (8.92%) Oracle Payroll
4 16 (7.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (7.04%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (7.04%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (6.10%) NetSuite
7 12 (5.63%) Oracle iProcurement
8 11 (5.16%) Oracle Assets
9 10 (4.69%) Oracle Applications
10 7 (3.29%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (3.29%) Oracle FAH
10 7 (3.29%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 6 (2.82%) Magento
11 6 (2.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 5 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
13 4 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 3 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
15 2 (0.94%) Infor CloudSuite
15 2 (0.94%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.43%) OCI
2 17 (7.98%) AWS
3 11 (5.16%) AtomSphere
3 11 (5.16%) Boomi
4 9 (4.23%) PaaS
5 8 (3.76%) Azure
6 7 (3.29%) GitHub
7 6 (2.82%) Serverless
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.35%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.41%) SaaS
11 2 (0.94%) Apigee
11 2 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.96%) Oracle Reports
2 20 (9.39%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.82%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.35%) Oracle Database 10g
5 5 (2.35%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (2.35%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.41%) Power BI
7 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) QlikView
8 1 (0.47%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (11.27%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (6.10%) Git
3 7 (3.29%) JDeveloper
4 5 (2.35%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.88%) Flyway
6 3 (1.41%) JIRA
6 3 (1.41%) Selenium
7 2 (0.94%) Toad
8 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
General
1 75 (35.21%) Finance
2 40 (18.78%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.39%) General Ledger
6 13 (6.10%) Banking
7 9 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.76%) Legal
9 7 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.82%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.35%) Retail
12 3 (1.41%) Military
13 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.47%) Aviation
14 1 (0.47%) Back Office
14 1 (0.47%) Front Office
14 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 92 (43.19%) Consultant
2 91 (42.72%) Oracle Consultant
3 34 (15.96%) Functional Consultant
3 34 (15.96%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 31 (14.55%) Payroll Consultant
5 30 (14.08%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 28 (13.15%) Senior
7 25 (11.74%) Developer
7 25 (11.74%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 25 (11.74%) Technical Consultant
8 18 (8.45%) Oracle Developer
8 18 (8.45%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
9 17 (7.98%) Lead
10 16 (7.51%) Architect
11 14 (6.57%) DBA
11 14 (6.57%) Oracle DBA
12 13 (6.10%) Analyst
13 11 (5.16%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.69%) Business Analyst
15 9 (4.23%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (10.33%) XML
3 16 (7.51%) REST
4 14 (6.57%) SOAP
5 12 (5.63%) Middleware
6 11 (5.16%) JSON
7 2 (0.94%) .NET
7 2 (0.94%) ADO
7 2 (0.94%) LangChain
7 2 (0.94%) pydantic
7 2 (0.94%) Terraform
7 2 (0.94%) Web Services
8 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.47%) EDI
8 1 (0.47%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.82%) Cloud Native
1 6 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.35%) Clustering
3 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.94%) Life Science
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.47%) FMCG
6 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.63%) Unix
2 9 (4.23%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.25%) ERP
2 40 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (17.84%) User Acceptance Testing
4 36 (16.90%) Migration
5 32 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (9.39%) Data Modelling
8 18 (8.45%) Data Migration
8 18 (8.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (8.45%) Validation
9 17 (7.98%) Agile
9 17 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (7.98%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (7.51%) Impact Assessments
11 15 (7.04%) System Integration Testing
11 15 (7.04%) System Testing
12 14 (6.57%) DevOps
13 13 (6.10%) Process Improvement
14 12 (5.63%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (5.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 52 (24.41%) SQL
2 43 (20.19%) PL/SQL
3 11 (5.16%) Groovy
3 11 (5.16%) Java
3 11 (5.16%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.23%) Python
5 7 (3.29%) Ruby
6 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.47%) Bicep
7 1 (0.47%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.76%) Degree
4 5 (2.35%) ACCA
4 5 (2.35%) CIMA
5 3 (1.41%) APMG
5 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.41%) PMP
6 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.88%) PMO
3 3 (1.41%) IFRS
4 2 (0.94%) GxP
4 2 (0.94%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 9 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (1.88%) Data Guard
2 4 (1.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 213 (100.00%) Oracle
2 21 (9.86%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.04%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.29%) SAP
5 4 (1.88%) Talend
5 4 (1.88%) Workday
6 3 (1.41%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.94%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (0.94%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.94%) Epicor
7 2 (0.94%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.94%) IFS
7 2 (0.94%) Infor
7 2 (0.94%) QAD
7 2 (0.94%) Sage
7 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.94%) Zuora
8 1 (0.47%) Databricks
8 1 (0.47%) OpenAI