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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 351 425
Rank change year-on-year -88 +74 +88
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 197 175 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.78% 7.21% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 119 91
10th Percentile £453 £411 £315
25th Percentile £513 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £636
90th Percentile £742 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 3,409 2,426 3,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.02% 8.48% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 1,378 1,832
10th Percentile £360 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £787
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 117
10th Percentile £26.25 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £38.11 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.19 £57.33
90th Percentile £88.00 £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 26 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 26 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 -108 162 £595 -4.50% 34
UK excluding London -113 90 £600 -4.00% 15
London -53 69 £550 +10.00% 22
Work from Home -59 67 £575 -8.00% 17
South East -72 57 £625 - 6
North of England -72 18 £501 -23.30% 7
Yorkshire - 10 £620 - 6
Midlands -55 9 £525 +5.00% 1
Scotland - 5 £616 - 1
North East -22 4 £480 -8.13%
North West -45 4 £555 -15.91% 1
West Midlands -58 4 £663 +32.50%
East Midlands - 4 £525 - 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 (4.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.55%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (3.05%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (1.02%) Liferay
Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 45 (22.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 29 (14.72%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (10.66%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (9.14%) Oracle Assets
5 16 (8.12%) Oracle Cash Management
5 16 (8.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (6.09%) Oracle Financials
6 12 (6.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (5.08%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (4.57%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (4.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (3.55%) Oracle AGIS
11 4 (2.03%) NetSuite
11 4 (2.03%) Oracle iProcurement
11 4 (2.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 3 (1.52%) Infor CloudSuite
12 3 (1.52%) Magento
12 3 (1.52%) Oracle Payroll
12 3 (1.52%) Sage X3
12 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.34%) OCI
2 12 (6.09%) AWS
3 10 (5.08%) SaaS
4 7 (3.55%) GitHub
4 7 (3.55%) PaaS
5 6 (3.05%) Azure
6 5 (2.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.51%) Apigee
9 1 (0.51%) Sentry
9 1 (0.51%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.78%) Oracle Reports
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (3.05%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (2.54%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (2.03%) Power BI
6 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.02%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.51%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.51%) OLTP
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.63%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (3.55%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) JIRA
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.02%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.02%) Postman
4 2 (1.02%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) Toad
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
General
1 63 (31.98%) Finance
2 45 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.69%) General Ledger
5 17 (8.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.06%) Banking
6 8 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Military
8 5 (2.54%) Legal
8 5 (2.54%) Retail
9 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.02%) Law
11 2 (1.02%) Local Government
11 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.51%) Billing
12 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (36.55%) Consultant
2 70 (35.53%) Oracle Consultant
3 33 (16.75%) Functional Consultant
3 33 (16.75%) Lead
4 32 (16.24%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 20 (10.15%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 20 (10.15%) Technical Consultant
6 19 (9.64%) Architect
7 16 (8.12%) Payroll Consultant
8 15 (7.61%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
9 14 (7.11%) DBA
9 14 (7.11%) Oracle DBA
10 13 (6.60%) Developer
10 13 (6.60%) Oracle Developer
11 12 (6.09%) Analyst
11 12 (6.09%) Project Manager
12 11 (5.58%) Oracle Financials Consultant
13 10 (5.08%) Oracle Project Manager
14 9 (4.57%) Senior
15 8 (4.06%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (7.11%) Middleware
3 4 (2.03%) XML
4 3 (1.52%) REST
4 3 (1.52%) Web Services
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle ADF
5 2 (1.02%) Playwright
5 2 (1.02%) pytest
5 2 (1.02%) SOAP
6 1 (0.51%) .NET
6 1 (0.51%) EDI
6 1 (0.51%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.54%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.52%) NHS
5 2 (1.02%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (0.51%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.51%) FMCG
6 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.96%) Migration
2 55 (27.92%) ERP
3 44 (22.34%) Data Migration
4 33 (16.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 33 (16.75%) Validation
5 31 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (10.66%) Accounts Payable
8 18 (9.14%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (9.14%) System Integration Testing
9 16 (8.12%) Cash Management
10 15 (7.61%) Agile
11 14 (7.11%) Data Modelling
12 13 (6.60%) Accounts Receivable
12 13 (6.60%) Data Validation
12 13 (6.60%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (6.09%) Data Cleansing
13 12 (6.09%) Procure-to-Pay
14 11 (5.58%) Risk Management
15 10 (5.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (24.37%) SQL
2 39 (19.80%) PL/SQL
3 9 (4.57%) Python
4 7 (3.55%) Java
4 7 (3.55%) Ruby
5 2 (1.02%) Perl
6 1 (0.51%) Bash
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) Korn
6 1 (0.51%) ProC
6 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.05%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.54%) Degree
4 5 (2.54%) PMP
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.51%) APMG
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.05%) COBIT
2 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.05%) NIST
2 6 (3.05%) QA
3 4 (2.03%) PMO
4 3 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) GxP
5 2 (1.02%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.03%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 7 (3.55%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (2.54%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (1.02%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 197 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (5.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.06%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.03%) Epicor
4 4 (2.03%) SAP
4 4 (2.03%) Talend
5 3 (1.52%) Adaptive Insights
5 3 (1.52%) Anaplan
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 (1.02%) HP
6 2 (1.02%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow