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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 380 441
Rank change year-on-year -34 +61 +131
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 226 143 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Business Applications category 6.63% 5.96% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 85 83
10th Percentile £457 £483 £303
25th Percentile £535 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +4.35% +7.28%
75th Percentile £648 £638 £635
90th Percentile £745 £692 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 3,410 2,398 3,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 8.21% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,353 1,956
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £648 £655 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 54 111
10th Percentile £19.00 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.75 £42.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +52.20% -15.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.25 £59.50
90th Percentile £87.90 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% +50.00% -18.37%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -28 190 £600 -2.04% 16
UK excluding London -35 134 £600 -4.00% 11
South East -2 99 £620 -0.80% 5
Work from Home -14 82 £599 -4.16% 11
London -66 51 £550 -2.31% 6
North of England -66 16 £601 -7.89% 4
Midlands -53 12 £525 -
Yorkshire - 9 £603 - 3
West Midlands - 7 £563 -
Scotland - 6 £599 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North East -17 3 - -
North West -38 2 £555 -15.91% 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 9 (3.98%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 7 (3.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.10%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.77%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.88%) Liferay
Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 56 (24.78%) Oracle EBS R12
2 27 (11.95%) Oracle Payables
3 24 (10.62%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (9.73%) Oracle Assets
5 21 (9.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 17 (7.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (6.64%) Oracle Cash Management
8 12 (5.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (5.31%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (4.87%) Oracle AGIS
10 8 (3.54%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 6 (2.65%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (2.65%) Oracle Payroll
12 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle iProcurement
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 1 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
13 1 (0.44%) Oracle FAH
13 1 (0.44%) Oracle iSupplier
13 1 (0.44%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.32%) OCI
2 16 (7.08%) SaaS
3 10 (4.42%) AWS
4 7 (3.10%) GitHub
4 7 (3.10%) PaaS
5 6 (2.65%) Azure
5 6 (2.65%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.44%) Apigee
8 1 (0.44%) Sentry
8 1 (0.44%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.37%) Oracle Reports
2 17 (7.52%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.65%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (2.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (1.77%) Oracle ODI
4 4 (1.77%) Power BI
5 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.88%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.44%) EDRMS
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) OLTP
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.52%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (3.10%) Git
3 3 (1.33%) JIRA
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.88%) Postman
4 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
General
1 82 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 74 (32.74%) Finance
3 25 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.73%) General Ledger
5 17 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.77%) Banking
8 4 (1.77%) Military
9 3 (1.33%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (31.86%) Consultant
2 67 (29.65%) Oracle Consultant
3 62 (27.43%) Lead
4 38 (16.81%) Functional Consultant
5 34 (15.04%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 18 (7.96%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 18 (7.96%) Technical Consultant
7 17 (7.52%) Architect
8 15 (6.64%) Developer
8 15 (6.64%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (6.64%) Oracle Financials Consultant
9 14 (6.19%) Project Manager
10 13 (5.75%) Service Transition Leader
11 12 (5.31%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
12 10 (4.42%) Analyst
12 10 (4.42%) Oracle Project Manager
12 10 (4.42%) Payroll Consultant
13 9 (3.98%) DBA
13 9 (3.98%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (3.98%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.54%) Middleware
3 3 (1.33%) Web Services
3 3 (1.33%) WebCenter
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle ADF
4 2 (0.88%) Playwright
4 2 (0.88%) pytest
4 2 (0.88%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (2.65%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.33%) NHS
6 2 (0.88%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.44%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.44%) PMI
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.44%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.77%) Unix
2 1 (0.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (36.73%) Migration
2 67 (29.65%) ERP
3 59 (26.11%) Data Migration
4 54 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (17.70%) User Acceptance Testing
6 37 (16.37%) Validation
7 24 (10.62%) ITIL
8 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.73%) System Integration Testing
10 20 (8.85%) Accounts Payable
10 20 (8.85%) Data Validation
11 18 (7.96%) Accounts Receivable
12 17 (7.52%) Procure-to-Pay
12 17 (7.52%) Risk Management
13 16 (7.08%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (6.64%) Business Transformation
14 15 (6.64%) Data Cleansing
15 14 (6.19%) Cash Management
15 14 (6.19%) ITSM
15 14 (6.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.91%) SQL
2 33 (14.60%) PL/SQL
3 9 (3.98%) Python
4 7 (3.10%) Java
4 7 (3.10%) Ruby
5 2 (0.88%) Perl
5 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.44%) Bash
6 1 (0.44%) C
6 1 (0.44%) Korn
6 1 (0.44%) ProC
Qualifications
1 20 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.10%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.65%) PMP
5 4 (1.77%) Degree
6 3 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.44%) APMG
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.31%) COBIT
1 12 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (5.31%) NIST
1 12 (5.31%) QA
2 10 (4.42%) SLA
3 7 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.10%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (2.65%) PMO
5 5 (2.21%) ITGC
6 3 (1.33%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (1.77%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.21%) CEMLI
2 4 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.88%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (0.88%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.44%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 226 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (5.31%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.33%) ExaGrid
5 2 (0.88%) Epicor
5 2 (0.88%) HP
5 2 (0.88%) SAP
5 2 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.44%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.44%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.44%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.44%) IFS
6 1 (0.44%) Infor
6 1 (0.44%) QAD
6 1 (0.44%) Sage
6 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.44%) Workday
6 1 (0.44%) Zuora