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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 - 638
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 13 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% - 0.008%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.36% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £576
25th Percentile £363 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.63%
75th Percentile £479 - £634
90th Percentile £576 - £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

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 3,581 4,078 4,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 10.84% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,360 2,570 3,261
10th Percentile £277 £263 £255
25th Percentile £382 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £825 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 74 148
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.00 £15.94
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.81
Median hourly rate £33.33 £36.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +17.07% +43.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £76.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -37.58% +75.00% +62.38%

Oracle Service Bus
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Service Bus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Service Bus job vacancy trend 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 - 10 £390 -
Wales - 9 £375 -
Work from Home - 5 £410 -
England - 3 £522 -
London - 1 £522 -
South East - 1 £600 -

Oracle Service Bus
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 13 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (84.62%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) OCI
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (76.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Consultant
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) SOA Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Lead
4 3 (23.08%) BPM Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Middleware Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) IT Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Oracle Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) OAuth
1 12 (92.31%) OAuth2
1 12 (92.31%) REST
1 12 (92.31%) SOAP
2 10 (76.92%) JSON
2 10 (76.92%) OpenAPI
2 10 (76.92%) Swagger
2 10 (76.92%) XML
2 10 (76.92%) XSD
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (30.77%) Middleware
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
6 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
1 13 (100.00%) SOA
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) API Management
2 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (76.92%) API Design
3 10 (76.92%) BPEL
3 10 (76.92%) SDLC
4 9 (69.23%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (69.23%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Burndown Charts
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
6 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) PL/SQL
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow