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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 347 436
Rank change year-on-year -106 +89 +76
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 190 178 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 0.35%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.53% 7.31% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 122 90
10th Percentile £453 £413 £358
25th Percentile £505 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £637
90th Percentile £739 £686 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £599 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -4.16% +20.48% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 - -

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 3,438 2,435 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 8.47% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,943 1,376 1,819
10th Percentile £359 £400 £368
25th Percentile £450 £468 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.37% +2.43% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 55 118
10th Percentile £26.35 £16.71 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £36.49 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £57.33
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -23.81%

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 29 May 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
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 29 May 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 -123 154 £563 -9.27% 28
UK excluding London -113 79 £599 -4.16% 12
London -60 72 £550 +10.00% 19
Work from Home -51 63 £575 -8.00% 14
South East -72 47 £625 - 6
North of England -73 17 £490 -24.87% 4
Yorkshire - 10 £620 - 3
Midlands -52 9 £525 +5.00% 1
Scotland - 5 £616 - 1
North East -27 4 £480 -8.13%
West Midlands -58 4 £663 +32.50%
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
North West -43 3 £475 -28.03% 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 8 (4.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.68%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (3.16%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.11%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (1.05%) Liferay
Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 43 (22.63%) Oracle EBS R12
2 24 (12.63%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (8.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 13 (6.84%) Oracle Assets
5 12 (6.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 12 (6.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 11 (5.79%) Oracle Financials
7 10 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (4.74%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (4.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 8 (4.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (2.63%) Oracle Payroll
11 4 (2.11%) NetSuite
11 4 (2.11%) Oracle AGIS
11 4 (2.11%) Oracle iProcurement
11 4 (2.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 3 (1.58%) Infor CloudSuite
12 3 (1.58%) Magento
12 3 (1.58%) Sage X3
12 3 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.63%) OCI
2 13 (6.84%) AWS
3 8 (4.21%) GitHub
3 8 (4.21%) PaaS
3 8 (4.21%) SaaS
4 6 (3.16%) Azure
5 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.53%) Apigee
8 1 (0.53%) Sentry
8 1 (0.53%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.42%) Oracle Reports
2 21 (11.05%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (2.11%) Power BI
6 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.53%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) OLTP
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.42%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (4.21%) Git
3 3 (1.58%) JIRA
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.05%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.05%) Postman
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
4 2 (1.05%) Toad
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 53 (27.89%) Finance
2 43 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.53%) General Ledger
5 16 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.21%) Banking
6 8 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.16%) Military
8 5 (2.63%) Legal
8 5 (2.63%) Retail
9 4 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.05%) Law
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
11 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (36.84%) Consultant
2 69 (36.32%) Oracle Consultant
3 32 (16.84%) Lead
4 30 (15.79%) Functional Consultant
4 30 (15.79%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 20 (10.53%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 20 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
6 18 (9.47%) Architect
7 17 (8.95%) Payroll Consultant
8 16 (8.42%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
9 15 (7.89%) DBA
9 15 (7.89%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (6.32%) Analyst
10 12 (6.32%) Developer
10 12 (6.32%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Oracle Financials Consultant
11 9 (4.74%) Senior
11 9 (4.74%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.21%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.68%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (24.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (6.84%) Middleware
3 4 (2.11%) XML
4 3 (1.58%) REST
4 3 (1.58%) Web Services
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle ADF
5 2 (1.05%) Playwright
5 2 (1.05%) pytest
5 2 (1.05%) SOAP
6 1 (0.53%) .NET
6 1 (0.53%) EDI
6 1 (0.53%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.58%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.05%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.53%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) FMCG
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.63%) Unix
2 3 (1.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.58%) Migration
2 51 (26.84%) ERP
3 44 (23.16%) Data Migration
4 33 (17.37%) Validation
5 30 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (15.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (8.95%) System Integration Testing
10 16 (8.42%) Accounts Payable
11 15 (7.89%) Data Modelling
12 14 (7.37%) Agile
13 13 (6.84%) Data Validation
14 12 (6.32%) Cash Management
14 12 (6.32%) Data Cleansing
14 12 (6.32%) Translating Business Requirements
15 11 (5.79%) CI/CD
15 11 (5.79%) Risk Management
16 10 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
17 9 (4.74%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.74%) SQL
2 38 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 10 (5.26%) Python
4 8 (4.21%) Java
4 8 (4.21%) Ruby
5 2 (1.05%) Perl
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) Korn
6 1 (0.53%) ProC
6 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.16%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.63%) Degree
4 5 (2.63%) PMP
5 3 (1.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.53%) APMG
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.16%) COBIT
2 6 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.16%) NIST
2 6 (3.16%) QA
3 4 (2.11%) PMO
4 3 (1.58%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) GxP
5 2 (1.05%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.68%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (2.63%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.05%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 190 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.21%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.11%) Epicor
4 4 (2.11%) SAP
4 4 (2.11%) Talend
5 3 (1.58%) Adaptive Insights
5 3 (1.58%) Anaplan
5 3 (1.58%) IFS
5 3 (1.58%) Infor
5 3 (1.58%) QAD
5 3 (1.58%) Sage
5 3 (1.58%) Workday
5 3 (1.58%) Zuora
6 2 (1.05%) HP
6 2 (1.05%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.05%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow