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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 - 600
Rank change year-on-year - - +150
Contract jobs citing Oracle Service Bus 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% - 0.002%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.32% - 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £401 - -
90th Percentile £410 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -

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 3,753 3,726 4,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 11.10% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,583 2,293 2,913
10th Percentile £290 £255 £255
25th Percentile £400 £385 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% -2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 77 129
10th Percentile £15.53 £17.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.37 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +40.00% +35.50%
75th Percentile £65.33 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.41 £71.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +93.18% +25.71%

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
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 28 December 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
Work from Home - 7 £393 - 4
UK excluding London - 7 £375 - 2
Wales - 6 £375 -
England - 5 £410 - 4
London - 3 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 1

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 12 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (66.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 12 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Consultant
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) BPM Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) IT Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (8.33%) ERP Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Programme Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) JSON
1 12 (100.00%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) OAuth
2 11 (91.67%) OAuth2
2 11 (91.67%) REST
2 11 (91.67%) SOAP
2 11 (91.67%) XSD
3 8 (66.67%) OpenAPI
3 8 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (66.67%) Swagger
4 4 (33.33%) XSLT
5 3 (25.00%) Middleware
6 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SOA
2 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (75.00%) Validation
4 8 (66.67%) Agile
4 8 (66.67%) API Design
4 8 (66.67%) API Management
4 8 (66.67%) BPEL
4 8 (66.67%) DevOps
4 8 (66.67%) SDLC
5 7 (58.33%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (33.33%) ERP
7 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
8 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
8 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (8.33%) Analytics
9 1 (8.33%) Business Development
9 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
9 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle