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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 382 448
Rank change year-on-year -105 +66 +23
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 202 188 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.57% 0.30%
As % of the Business Applications category 5.25% 6.52% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 125 66
10th Percentile £456 £414 £463
25th Percentile £500 £496 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £595
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +4.20% +3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £700
90th Percentile £758 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -8.00% +21.95% -10.87%
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 3,848 2,885 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 8.74% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,131 1,637 1,518
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +2.62% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 51 77
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.00 £24.80
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.01% -23.38% -18.55%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.13 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.30 £75.00 £65.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -1.69% -19.89%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -121 164 £600 - 57
London -73 112 £555 -6.72% 34
Work from Home -69 61 £575 -8.00% 44
UK excluding London -118 47 £575 -8.00% 34
North of England -55 16 £425 -37.96% 10
South East -98 16 £630 +0.80% 3
Scotland -21 9 £563 +11.39% 3
Yorkshire -35 8 £513 -28.82%
North East - 5 £453 - 6
Midlands -44 4 £525 +5.00% 3
North West -55 3 £415 -36.15% 4
East Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
East of England - 2 £500 - 2

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 (5.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (5.45%) Oracle Workflow
3 10 (4.95%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.97%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (17.82%) Oracle EBS R12
2 21 (10.40%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (9.41%) Oracle Payroll
4 17 (8.42%) Oracle Financials
4 17 (8.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 17 (8.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (6.93%) NetSuite
6 12 (5.94%) Oracle Assets
7 11 (5.45%) Oracle iProcurement
8 10 (4.95%) Oracle Applications
9 8 (3.96%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (3.47%) Oracle Cash Management
10 7 (3.47%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 7 (3.47%) Oracle FAH
10 7 (3.47%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 6 (2.97%) Magento
12 4 (1.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
14 2 (0.99%) Infor CloudSuite
14 2 (0.99%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.83%) OCI
2 13 (6.44%) AWS
3 12 (5.94%) AtomSphere
3 12 (5.94%) Boomi
4 9 (4.46%) Azure
5 7 (3.47%) PaaS
5 7 (3.47%) Serverless
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.48%) GitHub
7 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.98%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.99%) Apigee
10 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) DNS
1 1 (0.50%) Firewall
1 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.37%) Oracle Reports
2 21 (10.40%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 6 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database 10g
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.98%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (1.49%) Power BI
8 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) AlloyDB
9 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.50%) QlikView
9 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.40%) Oracle Forms
2 11 (5.45%) Git
3 7 (3.47%) JDeveloper
4 5 (2.48%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (1.98%) Flyway
6 3 (1.49%) JIRA
6 3 (1.49%) Selenium
7 2 (0.99%) Toad
8 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.50%) HP UFT
General
1 74 (36.63%) Finance
2 37 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.40%) General Ledger
4 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.93%) Banking
6 8 (3.96%) Legal
7 7 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.47%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.99%) Military
9 2 (0.99%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.50%) Aviation
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (42.57%) Consultant
2 85 (42.08%) Oracle Consultant
3 33 (16.34%) Functional Consultant
3 33 (16.34%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 30 (14.85%) Payroll Consultant
5 29 (14.36%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 27 (13.37%) Senior
7 24 (11.88%) Developer
8 19 (9.41%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 19 (9.41%) Technical Consultant
9 18 (8.91%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
10 16 (7.92%) Oracle Developer
11 15 (7.43%) DBA
11 15 (7.43%) Oracle DBA
12 14 (6.93%) Architect
12 14 (6.93%) Lead
13 13 (6.44%) Analyst
14 11 (5.45%) Business Analyst
14 11 (5.45%) Senior Developer
15 9 (4.46%) E-Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (11.39%) XML
3 17 (8.42%) REST
4 15 (7.43%) SOAP
5 12 (5.94%) JSON
5 12 (5.94%) Middleware
6 3 (1.49%) Web Services
7 2 (0.99%) .NET
7 2 (0.99%) ADO
7 2 (0.99%) LangChain
7 2 (0.99%) pydantic
7 2 (0.99%) Terraform
8 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.50%) EDI
8 1 (0.50%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.97%) Clustering
1 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
2 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
4 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.50%) FMCG
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.44%) Unix
2 10 (4.95%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.81%) ERP
1 38 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (18.32%) User Acceptance Testing
3 32 (15.84%) Migration
4 31 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (8.42%) Data Modelling
8 16 (7.92%) Agile
8 16 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (7.92%) Impact Assessments
8 16 (7.92%) System Integration Testing
9 15 (7.43%) DevOps
9 15 (7.43%) Process Improvement
9 15 (7.43%) System Testing
10 14 (6.93%) Data Migration
10 14 (6.93%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (6.44%) Validation
12 12 (5.94%) API Management
12 12 (5.94%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.28%) SQL
2 36 (17.82%) PL/SQL
3 12 (5.94%) Groovy
3 12 (5.94%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.96%) Java
5 6 (2.97%) Python
6 4 (1.98%) Ruby
6 4 (1.98%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.50%) Bicep
7 1 (0.50%) C#
7 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) Degree
4 6 (2.97%) ACCA
4 6 (2.97%) CIMA
5 3 (1.49%) APMG
5 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
1 4 (1.98%) IFRS
1 4 (1.98%) PMO
2 2 (0.99%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 10 (4.95%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (1.98%) Data Guard
2 4 (1.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 202 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (9.90%) Salesforce
3 15 (7.43%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.47%) SAP
5 4 (1.98%) Talend
5 4 (1.98%) Workday
6 3 (1.49%) 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 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI