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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 372 449
Rank change year-on-year -112 +77 +30
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 203 191 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.58% 0.30%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.23% 6.60% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 127 62
10th Percentile £456 £414 £463
25th Percentile £500 £498 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.04% +3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £741 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £509
% change year-on-year -12.00% +22.85% -11.52%
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 3,882 2,896 2,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.07% 8.76% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,137 1,652 1,481
10th Percentile £360 £360 £353
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £652 £673 £675
90th Percentile £755 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 48 75
10th Percentile £15.04 £12.95 £24.70
25th Percentile £19.70 £25.23 £35.36
Median hourly rate £38.93 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £90.70 £75.75 £65.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.68 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -8.09% -8.89% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -101 166 £600 - 54
London -59 115 £560 -5.88% 28
Work from Home -79 61 £591 -5.46% 35
UK excluding London -118 45 £550 -12.00% 36
South East -90 16 £630 -2.78% 7
North of England -70 14 £425 -37.96% 9
Scotland -16 8 £563 +11.39% 3
North West -48 5 £415 -36.15% 4
North East - 5 £453 - 3
Yorkshire -42 4 £425 -40.97% 2
Midlands -48 4 £525 +5.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
East of England - 3 £500 - 3

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 13 (6.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.42%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (2.96%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (17.24%) Oracle EBS R12
2 23 (11.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 23 (11.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 22 (10.84%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (9.85%) Oracle Financials
4 20 (9.85%) Oracle Payroll
5 18 (8.87%) Oracle Assets
6 14 (6.90%) NetSuite
7 12 (5.91%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 12 (5.91%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (5.91%) Oracle iProcurement
8 10 (4.93%) Oracle Applications
9 8 (3.94%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 7 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (3.45%) Oracle FAH
11 6 (2.96%) Magento
12 4 (1.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 3 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
14 2 (0.99%) Infor CloudSuite
14 2 (0.99%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.23%) OCI
2 15 (7.39%) AWS
3 12 (5.91%) AtomSphere
3 12 (5.91%) Boomi
4 9 (4.43%) Azure
5 7 (3.45%) PaaS
5 7 (3.45%) Serverless
6 6 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.96%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.96%) GitHub
7 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.97%) SaaS
9 3 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.99%) Apigee
10 2 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) DNS
1 1 (0.49%) Firewall
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) Oracle Database
2 21 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (5.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database 10g
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (2.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.97%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (1.48%) Power BI
8 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.49%) QlikView
9 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.39%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (5.91%) Git
3 7 (3.45%) JDeveloper
4 5 (2.46%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.97%) Flyway
6 3 (1.48%) JIRA
6 3 (1.48%) Selenium
7 2 (0.99%) Toad
8 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.49%) HP UFT
General
1 80 (39.41%) Finance
2 36 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.82%) General Ledger
5 23 (11.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.39%) Banking
7 8 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.94%) Legal
8 7 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.96%) Billing
10 4 (1.97%) Military
10 4 (1.97%) Retail
11 3 (1.48%) Back Office
12 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.99%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.49%) Aviation
13 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.49%) Local Government
13 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (41.38%) Consultant
1 84 (41.38%) Oracle Consultant
2 31 (15.27%) Functional Consultant
2 31 (15.27%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 28 (13.79%) Senior
4 27 (13.30%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
4 27 (13.30%) Payroll Consultant
5 25 (12.32%) Developer
6 18 (8.87%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
7 17 (8.37%) Oracle Developer
8 16 (7.88%) DBA
8 16 (7.88%) Oracle DBA
8 16 (7.88%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 16 (7.88%) Technical Consultant
9 14 (6.90%) Analyst
9 14 (6.90%) Architect
10 13 (6.40%) Lead
11 11 (5.42%) Business Analyst
11 11 (5.42%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.93%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (11.33%) XML
3 17 (8.37%) REST
4 15 (7.39%) SOAP
5 13 (6.40%) Middleware
6 12 (5.91%) JSON
7 3 (1.48%) Web Services
8 2 (0.99%) .NET
8 2 (0.99%) ADO
8 2 (0.99%) LangChain
8 2 (0.99%) pydantic
8 2 (0.99%) Terraform
9 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.49%) EDI
9 1 (0.49%) pgvector
9 1 (0.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.96%) Clustering
3 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.97%) Data Structures
3 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.49%) FMCG
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.90%) Unix
2 11 (5.42%) Linux
3 3 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.67%) ERP
2 39 (19.21%) User Acceptance Testing
3 37 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (16.75%) Migration
5 33 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (8.37%) Data Modelling
8 17 (8.37%) Impact Assessments
9 16 (7.88%) Agile
9 16 (7.88%) System Integration Testing
9 16 (7.88%) System Testing
10 15 (7.39%) DevOps
10 15 (7.39%) Process Improvement
11 14 (6.90%) Data Migration
11 14 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (6.90%) Validation
12 13 (6.40%) SOA
13 12 (5.91%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.70%) SQL
2 29 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 12 (5.91%) Groovy
3 12 (5.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.94%) Java
5 7 (3.45%) Python
6 4 (1.97%) Ruby
6 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.49%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) C#
7 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 48 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) Degree
4 6 (2.96%) ACCA
4 6 (2.96%) CIMA
5 3 (1.48%) APMG
5 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.97%) IFRS
2 4 (1.97%) PMO
3 2 (0.99%) QA
3 2 (0.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 11 (5.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (2.46%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 203 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (9.85%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.39%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.45%) SAP
5 4 (1.97%) Talend
5 4 (1.97%) Workday
6 3 (1.48%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.99%) Adaptive Insights
7 2 (0.99%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.99%) Epicor
7 2 (0.99%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.99%) IFS
7 2 (0.99%) Infor
7 2 (0.99%) QAD
7 2 (0.99%) Sage
7 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.99%) Zuora
8 1 (0.49%) Databricks
8 1 (0.49%) Foundry
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI