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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 366 463
Rank change year-on-year -88 +97 +29
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 215 190 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 0.30%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.65% 7.07% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 127 78
10th Percentile £453 £412 £495
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +1.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £625 £664 £688
90th Percentile £703 £738 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £599 £623 £575
% change year-on-year -3.78% +8.26% +4.55%
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 3,803 2,688 3,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.19% 8.28% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,126 1,525 1,843
10th Percentile £363 £380 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% - -
75th Percentile £650 £665 £675
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 178 65 118
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.19 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £30.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £51.43 £57.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +42.59% -19.35%
75th Percentile £71.91 £70.00 £58.44
90th Percentile £90.30 £85.60 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -24.17% +50.00% -26.38%

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 11 July 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 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle EBS in the UK

Oracle EBS
Top 14 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 11 July 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 -96 175 £563 -6.25% 25
London -26 107 £550 -4.35% 12
Work from Home -67 60 £575 -8.00% 17
UK excluding London -122 60 £599 -3.78% 13
South East -86 30 £628 +0.52% 4
North of England -72 19 £453 -30.65% 3
Yorkshire -41 11 £600 - 1
Midlands -55 6 £525 +5.00% 1
North East -30 5 £453 -13.40%
Scotland -6 4 £599 +18.61%
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
North West -61 3 £415 -37.12% 2
West Midlands -66 1 - -
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 11 (5.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.40%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 40 (18.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 22 (10.23%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (6.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle Assets
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle Financials
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle Payroll
5 10 (4.65%) Oracle Applications
6 9 (4.19%) Oracle iProcurement
7 8 (3.72%) NetSuite
7 8 (3.72%) Oracle Cash Management
7 8 (3.72%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 7 (3.26%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (3.26%) Oracle FAH
8 7 (3.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (2.33%) Magento
10 4 (1.86%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 3 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
11 3 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 43 (20.00%) OCI
2 15 (6.98%) AWS
3 14 (6.51%) PaaS
4 12 (5.58%) GitHub
5 10 (4.65%) Azure
6 5 (2.33%) AtomSphere
6 5 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.33%) Boomi
6 5 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.33%) SaaS
7 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.93%) Apigee
9 1 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.47%) Serverless
9 1 (0.47%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.53%) Oracle Reports
2 19 (8.84%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.79%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (0.93%) Power BI
6 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.93%) 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 23 (10.70%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (6.05%) Git
3 7 (3.26%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.40%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.93%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) Postman
5 2 (0.93%) Toad
6 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
General
1 60 (27.91%) Finance
2 45 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.30%) General Ledger
4 20 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.65%) Banking
7 6 (2.79%) Legal
7 6 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.33%) Military
8 5 (2.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (40.47%) Consultant
2 86 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 32 (14.88%) Functional Consultant
3 32 (14.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 25 (11.63%) Lead
4 25 (11.63%) Payroll Consultant
5 24 (11.16%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 22 (10.23%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 22 (10.23%) Technical Consultant
7 21 (9.77%) Architect
7 21 (9.77%) Senior
8 18 (8.37%) Developer
9 15 (6.98%) Oracle Developer
10 14 (6.51%) Analyst
11 12 (5.58%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
11 12 (5.58%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.65%) DBA
12 10 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (3.26%) Business Analyst
13 7 (3.26%) Oracle Financials Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (6.98%) XML
3 11 (5.12%) Middleware
3 11 (5.12%) REST
4 8 (3.72%) SOAP
5 5 (2.33%) JSON
6 3 (1.40%) Web Services
7 2 (0.93%) .NET
7 2 (0.93%) ADO
7 2 (0.93%) LangChain
7 2 (0.93%) Playwright
7 2 (0.93%) pydantic
7 2 (0.93%) pytest
8 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.47%) EDI
8 1 (0.47%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.40%) NHS
5 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.47%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.47%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.47%) FMCG
7 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) PMI
7 1 (0.47%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.79%) Unix
2 4 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.44%) Migration
2 51 (23.72%) ERP
3 43 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 36 (16.74%) Validation
5 34 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (15.35%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (8.84%) Data Modelling
8 18 (8.37%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (8.37%) System Integration Testing
9 15 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (6.98%) CI/CD
9 15 (6.98%) Data Validation
10 14 (6.51%) Agile
11 13 (6.05%) Event-Driven
11 13 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (6.05%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (5.58%) Accounts Payable
12 12 (5.58%) Observability
12 12 (5.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.72%) SQL
2 43 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 15 (6.98%) Python
4 13 (6.05%) Java
5 11 (5.12%) Ruby
6 5 (2.33%) Groovy
6 5 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.79%) Degree
4 5 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.86%) PMP
6 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) MBA
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.26%) PMO
3 6 (2.79%) QA
4 5 (2.33%) COBIT
4 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.33%) NIST
5 3 (1.40%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.93%) GxP
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.40%) Data Guard
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.93%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) Kibana
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (6.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.05%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.33%) SAP
4 4 (1.86%) Talend
5 3 (1.40%) Adaptive Insights
5 3 (1.40%) Anaplan
5 3 (1.40%) Epicor
5 3 (1.40%) IFS
5 3 (1.40%) Infor
5 3 (1.40%) QAD
5 3 (1.40%) Sage
5 3 (1.40%) Workday
5 3 (1.40%) Zuora
6 2 (0.93%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.93%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.47%) Foundry
7 1 (0.47%) HP