Oracle Service Bus Contract Job Trends

Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Service Bus skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 - 646
Rank change year-on-year - - +182
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 15 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% - 0.012%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.42% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile - - £579
25th Percentile £363 - £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - £624
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.41%
75th Percentile £447 - £663
90th Percentile £568 - £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 - £624
% change year-on-year - - +16.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Oracle Service Bus falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,551 4,086 5,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.94% 10.71% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 2,695 3,539
10th Percentile £277 £267 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +3.75% -3.62%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £703 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 165
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -29.63% +140.00%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.18
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.15% +132.64%

Oracle Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle Service Bus as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Service Bus in the UK

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Service Bus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Service Bus over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Service Bus in the UK

Oracle Service Bus
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Service Bus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus
Top 6 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 Service Bus within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
UK excluding London - 12 £405 -
Wales - 11 £390 -
Work from Home - 5 £410 -
England - 3 £522 -
London - 1 £522 -
South East - 1 £600 -

Oracle Service Bus
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (86.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) OCI
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Consultant
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 5 (33.33%) SOA Consultant
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
4 3 (20.00%) BPM Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Middleware Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) IT Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Oracle Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Middleware Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) OAuth
1 12 (80.00%) OAuth2
1 12 (80.00%) REST
1 12 (80.00%) SOAP
2 10 (66.67%) JSON
2 10 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 10 (66.67%) Swagger
2 10 (66.67%) XML
2 10 (66.67%) XSD
3 8 (53.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (40.00%) Middleware
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
6 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) SOA
2 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) API Management
2 12 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (66.67%) API Design
3 10 (66.67%) BPEL
3 10 (66.67%) SDLC
4 9 (60.00%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (60.00%) Validation
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow