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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 368 453
Rank change year-on-year -108 +85 +15
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 213 189 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.58% 0.29%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.50% 6.71% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 129 64
10th Percentile £453 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £492 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +3.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £753 £739 £721
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 3,870 2,815 2,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.10% 8.60% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,148 1,592 1,524
10th Percentile £363 £360 £353
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
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 £537 £530
% change year-on-year -2.23% +1.32% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 54 79
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.76 £24.90
25th Percentile £23.06 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.16% -16.15%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.44 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £74.25 £66.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -1.69% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -103 176 £550 -8.33% 44
London -60 116 £550 -5.58% 29
Work from Home -86 62 £575 -8.00% 34
UK excluding London -118 54 £550 -12.00% 27
North of England -58 19 £425 -31.45% 5
South East -97 18 £630 +0.80% 4
Yorkshire -25 11 £513 -
Scotland -20 9 £575 +13.86% 4
Midlands -47 6 £525 +5.00% 2
North East - 5 £453 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West -55 3 £415 -33.06% 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 10 (4.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (3.29%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.35%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
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 39 (18.31%) 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 Applications
8 11 (5.16%) Oracle Assets
9 7 (3.29%) Oracle Cash Management
9 7 (3.29%) Oracle FAH
9 7 (3.29%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 6 (2.82%) Magento
10 6 (2.82%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 6 (2.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
13 2 (0.94%) Infor CloudSuite
13 2 (0.94%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 36 (16.90%) OCI
2 18 (8.45%) AWS
3 11 (5.16%) AtomSphere
3 11 (5.16%) Boomi
3 11 (5.16%) PaaS
4 9 (4.23%) GitHub
5 8 (3.76%) Azure
6 6 (2.82%) Serverless
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.41%) SaaS
10 2 (0.94%) Apigee
10 2 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.96%) Oracle Reports
2 19 (8.92%) 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 2 (0.94%) Power BI
6 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.47%) AlloyDB
7 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.33%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (6.57%) Git
3 7 (3.29%) JDeveloper
4 4 (1.88%) Flyway
4 4 (1.88%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.94%) Toad
7 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
General
1 76 (35.68%) Finance
2 45 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.39%) General Ledger
6 13 (6.10%) Banking
7 11 (5.16%) 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%) Back Office
14 1 (0.47%) Front Office
14 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (42.72%) Consultant
2 90 (42.25%) Oracle Consultant
3 35 (16.43%) Functional Consultant
3 35 (16.43%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 31 (14.55%) Payroll Consultant
5 30 (14.08%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 28 (13.15%) Senior
7 24 (11.27%) Developer
8 23 (10.80%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 23 (10.80%) Technical Consultant
9 19 (8.92%) Architect
10 18 (8.45%) Lead
10 18 (8.45%) Oracle Developer
10 18 (8.45%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
11 13 (6.10%) Analyst
11 13 (6.10%) DBA
11 13 (6.10%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (5.16%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.69%) Business Analyst
14 9 (4.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (10.33%) XML
3 16 (7.51%) REST
4 14 (6.57%) SOAP
5 11 (5.16%) JSON
5 11 (5.16%) Middleware
6 2 (0.94%) .NET
6 2 (0.94%) ADO
6 2 (0.94%) LangChain
6 2 (0.94%) pydantic
6 2 (0.94%) Terraform
6 2 (0.94%) Web Services
7 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.47%) EDI
7 1 (0.47%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.76%) Cloud Native
1 8 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.35%) Clustering
4 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.94%) Life Science
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.47%) FMCG
7 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) NHS
7 1 (0.47%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.16%) Unix
2 8 (3.76%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.19%) ERP
2 41 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (18.31%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (16.43%) Migration
5 34 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (9.86%) Data Modelling
7 20 (9.39%) Data Migration
7 20 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (8.92%) Validation
9 17 (7.98%) Agile
10 16 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (7.51%) Impact Assessments
10 16 (7.51%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (7.51%) System Integration Testing
11 15 (7.04%) System Testing
12 14 (6.57%) DevOps
13 13 (6.10%) Process Improvement
13 13 (6.10%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (5.63%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.94%) SQL
2 42 (19.72%) PL/SQL
3 12 (5.63%) Java
4 11 (5.16%) Groovy
4 11 (5.16%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.16%) Python
5 9 (4.23%) Ruby
6 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.47%) Bicep
7 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.78%) 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
3 3 (1.41%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) GxP
4 2 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 8 (3.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (1.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.41%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 213 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (9.39%) Salesforce
3 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.29%) SAP
5 4 (1.88%) Talend
5 4 (1.88%) Workday
6 2 (0.94%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (0.94%) Anaplan
6 2 (0.94%) Epicor
6 2 (0.94%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.94%) IFS
6 2 (0.94%) Infor
6 2 (0.94%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.94%) QAD
6 2 (0.94%) Sage
6 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.94%) Zuora
7 1 (0.47%) Foundry
7 1 (0.47%) Google