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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 358 447
Rank change year-on-year -108 +89 +39
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 217 199 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.61% 0.29%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.64% 7.14% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 135 67
10th Percentile £451 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £498 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +8.60%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £700
90th Percentile £744 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 3,846 2,787 2,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.15% 8.52% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 1,582 1,575
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £461 £447 £456
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 £539
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.32% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 54 83
10th Percentile £16.75 £14.76 £24.60
25th Percentile £23.72 £25.25 £35.18
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% -21.16% -17.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £62.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.00 £74.25 £65.03
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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -101 180 £550 -8.33% 62
London -64 116 £550 -6.78% 33
UK excluding London -117 57 £575 -8.00% 40
Work from Home -84 55 £575 -8.00% 53
South East -90 22 £648 +3.68% 5
North of England -57 19 £425 -33.07% 12
Yorkshire -35 11 £513 - 1
Scotland -6 8 £575 +13.86% 4
Midlands -45 6 £525 +5.00% 4
North East - 5 £453 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West -51 3 £415 -34.65% 7
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 (5.53%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 36 (16.59%) Oracle EBS R12
2 22 (10.14%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (7.83%) Oracle Payroll
4 15 (6.91%) Oracle Financials
4 15 (6.91%) Oracle General Ledger
4 15 (6.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 13 (5.99%) NetSuite
6 12 (5.53%) Oracle Assets
7 11 (5.07%) Oracle Applications
7 11 (5.07%) Oracle iProcurement
8 8 (3.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 8 (3.69%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
9 7 (3.23%) Oracle FAH
10 6 (2.76%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 6 (2.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (2.30%) Magento
12 3 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
13 2 (0.92%) Infor CloudSuite
13 2 (0.92%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.97%) OCI
2 15 (6.91%) AWS
3 13 (5.99%) PaaS
4 11 (5.07%) AtomSphere
4 11 (5.07%) Boomi
5 10 (4.61%) GitHub
6 9 (4.15%) Azure
7 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.38%) SaaS
10 2 (0.92%) Apigee
10 2 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.46%) Cloud Run
11 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.51%) Oracle Reports
2 16 (7.37%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.76%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (0.92%) Power BI
5 2 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) AlloyDB
6 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (9.68%) Oracle Forms
2 11 (5.07%) Git
3 7 (3.23%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.38%) Selenium
5 2 (0.92%) JIRA
5 2 (0.92%) Toad
6 1 (0.46%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 75 (34.56%) Finance
2 50 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.68%) General Ledger
6 13 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.53%) Banking
8 6 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.30%) Legal
9 5 (2.30%) Retail
10 4 (1.84%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.38%) Military
12 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.92%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.46%) Aviation
13 1 (0.46%) Front Office
13 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (42.40%) Consultant
2 91 (41.94%) Oracle Consultant
3 34 (15.67%) Functional Consultant
3 34 (15.67%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 29 (13.36%) Payroll Consultant
5 28 (12.90%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 28 (12.90%) Senior
6 24 (11.06%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 24 (11.06%) Technical Consultant
7 23 (10.60%) Developer
8 21 (9.68%) Architect
8 21 (9.68%) Lead
9 17 (7.83%) Oracle Developer
10 16 (7.37%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
11 12 (5.53%) Analyst
12 11 (5.07%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.07%) Technical Architect
13 9 (4.15%) DBA
13 9 (4.15%) E-Business Consultant
13 9 (4.15%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 22 (10.14%) XML
3 16 (7.37%) REST
4 14 (6.45%) SOAP
5 11 (5.07%) JSON
6 10 (4.61%) Middleware
7 2 (0.92%) .NET
7 2 (0.92%) ADO
7 2 (0.92%) LangChain
7 2 (0.92%) pydantic
7 2 (0.92%) Terraform
7 2 (0.92%) Web Services
8 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.46%) EDI
8 1 (0.46%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.30%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.92%) Life Science
5 2 (0.92%) NHS
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.46%) FMCG
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.46%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.76%) Unix
2 4 (1.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.12%) ERP
2 40 (18.43%) Migration
2 40 (18.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 36 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (11.52%) Data Migration
5 24 (11.06%) Validation
6 20 (9.22%) Data Modelling
7 19 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (8.29%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (7.83%) System Integration Testing
10 16 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (6.45%) Impact Assessments
11 14 (6.45%) System Testing
12 13 (5.99%) Agile
12 13 (5.99%) CI/CD
12 13 (5.99%) Event-Driven
12 13 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (5.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.04%) SQL
2 40 (18.43%) PL/SQL
3 13 (5.99%) Java
3 13 (5.99%) Python
4 11 (5.07%) Groovy
4 11 (5.07%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.07%) Ruby
5 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.46%) Bicep
6 1 (0.46%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.23%) Degree
4 4 (1.84%) ACCA
4 4 (1.84%) CIMA
5 3 (1.38%) APMG
5 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.38%) PMP
6 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.76%) PMO
3 3 (1.38%) QA
4 2 (0.92%) GxP
4 2 (0.92%) IFRS
4 2 (0.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.38%) Data Guard
1 3 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 217 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (8.76%) Salesforce
3 13 (5.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.23%) SAP
5 4 (1.84%) Talend
5 4 (1.84%) Workday
6 2 (0.92%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (0.92%) Anaplan
6 2 (0.92%) Epicor
6 2 (0.92%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.92%) IFS
6 2 (0.92%) Infor
6 2 (0.92%) JD Edwards
6 2 (0.92%) QAD
6 2 (0.92%) Sage
6 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.92%) Zuora
7 1 (0.46%) Foundry
7 1 (0.46%) Google