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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 374 440
Rank change year-on-year -90 +66 +53
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 198 182 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.37% 6.91% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 121 81
10th Percentile £453 £413 £488
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £624 £665 £688
90th Percentile £649 £738 £700
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 3,690 2,632 3,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.13% 8.29% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,062 1,486 1,861
10th Percentile £363 £386 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £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 174 65 122
10th Percentile £20.31 £20.19 £17.13
25th Percentile £30.07 £30.25 £22.43
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +43.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £72.50 £57.24
90th Percentile £89.63 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% +50.00% -27.27%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -112 160 £563 -7.79% 35
London -56 94 £550 -4.35% 19
Work from Home -58 60 £575 -8.00% 19
UK excluding London -139 58 £599 -3.78% 17
South East -79 30 £628 +0.52% 5
North of England -74 17 £490 -24.87% 4
Yorkshire -46 10 £620 - 2
Midlands -55 6 £525 +5.00% 2
Scotland -12 4 £599 +18.61%
North East -35 4 £480 -8.13%
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
North West -52 3 £415 -37.12% 2
West Midlands -63 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 5 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (2.53%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (18.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 16 (8.08%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (5.56%) Oracle Payroll
4 9 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (4.04%) NetSuite
6 7 (3.54%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (3.54%) Oracle Cash Management
6 7 (3.54%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (3.54%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (3.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (2.53%) Magento
8 5 (2.53%) Oracle iProcurement
9 4 (2.02%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 3 (1.52%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (1.52%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (1.52%) Dynamics SL
10 3 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 3 (1.52%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.70%) OCI
2 14 (7.07%) AWS
3 11 (5.56%) GitHub
3 11 (5.56%) PaaS
4 8 (4.04%) Azure
5 5 (2.53%) AtomSphere
5 5 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.53%) Boomi
5 5 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.53%) SaaS
6 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.01%) Apigee
8 1 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
2 16 (8.08%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.03%) Oracle ODI
4 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.01%) Power BI
6 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.51%) AlloyDB
7 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (6.06%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) JDeveloper
3 3 (1.52%) Selenium
4 2 (1.01%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Postman
4 2 (1.01%) Toad
5 1 (0.51%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
General
1 49 (24.75%) Finance
2 42 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.59%) General Ledger
6 10 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.04%) Banking
8 6 (3.03%) Legal
8 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.53%) Military
9 5 (2.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.01%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.51%) Billing
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (41.92%) Consultant
2 82 (41.41%) Oracle Consultant
3 30 (15.15%) Functional Consultant
3 30 (15.15%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 24 (12.12%) Lead
4 24 (12.12%) Payroll Consultant
5 23 (11.62%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 21 (10.61%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 21 (10.61%) Technical Consultant
7 20 (10.10%) Architect
8 16 (8.08%) Senior
9 13 (6.57%) Developer
10 12 (6.06%) Analyst
11 11 (5.56%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
11 11 (5.56%) Technical Architect
12 10 (5.05%) DBA
12 10 (5.05%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (5.05%) Oracle Developer
13 6 (3.03%) Oracle Financials Consultant
13 6 (3.03%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (24.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (5.56%) Middleware
2 11 (5.56%) REST
3 9 (4.55%) XML
4 8 (4.04%) SOAP
5 5 (2.53%) JSON
6 3 (1.52%) Web Services
7 2 (1.01%) .NET
7 2 (1.01%) ADO
7 2 (1.01%) LangChain
7 2 (1.01%) Playwright
7 2 (1.01%) pydantic
7 2 (1.01%) pytest
8 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.51%) EDI
8 1 (0.51%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.53%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.52%) NHS
5 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.01%) Life Science
7 1 (0.51%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.51%) FMCG
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.51%) PMI
7 1 (0.51%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.01%) Linux
1 2 (1.01%) Unix
1 2 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.77%) Migration
2 48 (24.24%) ERP
3 41 (20.71%) Data Migration
4 35 (17.68%) Validation
5 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (8.59%) Data Modelling
7 16 (8.08%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (8.08%) System Integration Testing
8 14 (7.07%) Agile
8 14 (7.07%) CI/CD
8 14 (7.07%) Data Validation
9 12 (6.06%) Data Cleansing
9 12 (6.06%) Event-Driven
9 12 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (6.06%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (6.06%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (5.56%) Analytics
10 11 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.72%) SQL
2 35 (17.68%) PL/SQL
3 14 (7.07%) Python
4 12 (6.06%) Java
5 10 (5.05%) Ruby
6 5 (2.53%) Groovy
6 5 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.51%) Bicep
7 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) Degree
4 5 (2.53%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.02%) PMP
6 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) MBA
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.03%) QA
3 5 (2.53%) COBIT
3 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.53%) NIST
3 5 (2.53%) PMO
4 3 (1.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) GxP
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.52%) Data Guard
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.01%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 198 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.57%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.53%) SAP
4 4 (2.02%) Talend
5 3 (1.52%) Adaptive Insights
5 3 (1.52%) Anaplan
5 3 (1.52%) Epicor
5 3 (1.52%) IFS
5 3 (1.52%) Infor
5 3 (1.52%) QAD
5 3 (1.52%) Sage
5 3 (1.52%) Workday
5 3 (1.52%) Zuora
6 2 (1.01%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.01%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.51%) Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) HP