Oracle Contract Job Trends

Oracle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 2,127 1,681 2,173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.34% 5.43% 4.90%
As % of the Vendors category 11.88% 11.72% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,085 1,387
10th Percentile £355 £385 £385
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £536 £534
% change year-on-year -3.03% +0.52% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 36
10th Percentile £22.60 - £18.60
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.27 £25.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £54.00 £35.94
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +50.25% -42.95%
75th Percentile £74.68 £68.28 £59.35
90th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £90.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +18.52% +17.70% -23.53%

All Vendors
UK

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,911 14,349 19,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.97% 46.32% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,506 8,584 12,141
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -1.12%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 416 916
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +8.53% -16.50%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.04 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.74% +4.33% -5.45%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 February 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 +1 1,842 £525 -4.55% 417
UK excluding London +3 1,066 £520 -3.03% 370
London -3 828 £540 -1.82% 135
Work from Home -4 589 £550 +1.38% 230
South East +6 344 £564 -1.96% 118
Midlands +1 230 £520 +0.48% 74
North of England -4 202 £481 -8.33% 64
West Midlands +2 199 £520 -5.45% 54
South West +5 119 £475 -17.39% 43
North West +8 115 £460 -12.38% 33
Scotland -3 92 £500 - 48
East of England +2 67 £500 +2.04% 31
Yorkshire -30 66 £525 -4.55% 20
East Midlands -24 30 £525 +23.53% 20
North East -4 19 £625 +34.41% 11
Wales +11 12 £413 +73.68%
Northern Ireland -3 3 £553 +2.31% 1

Oracle
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 67 (3.15%) SAS
2 50 (2.35%) Confluence
3 47 (2.21%) Apache
4 39 (1.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 39 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 37 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 35 (1.65%) WebSphere
7 34 (1.60%) Tomcat
8 33 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
9 29 (1.36%) IIS
10 19 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
11 15 (0.71%) JBoss
12 14 (0.66%) Apache Geronimo
12 14 (0.66%) Apache ServiceMix
12 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
13 12 (0.56%) Apache Spark
14 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
15 9 (0.42%) Mendix
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
16 8 (0.38%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 89 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.52%) Oracle Smart View
7 9 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.094%) Windchill
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.047%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.047%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 185 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
2 126 (5.92%) Oracle Payables
3 102 (4.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 78 (3.67%) Oracle ERP
5 74 (3.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 71 (3.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 67 (3.15%) Oracle EBS R12
8 53 (2.49%) Oracle Assets
9 45 (2.12%) Oracle Cash Management
10 41 (1.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 36 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
12 17 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
13 16 (0.75%) NetSuite
14 14 (0.66%) Oracle Payroll
14 14 (0.66%) Oracle SCM
15 13 (0.61%) Oracle AGIS
15 13 (0.61%) Primavera
16 11 (0.52%) Oracle E-Business Tax
16 11 (0.52%) Oracle FAH
17 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 399 (18.76%) OCI
2 347 (16.31%) Azure
3 267 (12.55%) AWS
4 124 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (5.27%) Power Platform
6 103 (4.84%) SaaS
7 75 (3.53%) GCP
8 48 (2.26%) PaaS
9 45 (2.12%) GitHub
10 33 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (1.55%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.50%) Serverless
12 28 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 27 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (1.03%) IaaS
15 19 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
17 17 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (0.75%) Lucidchart
18 16 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.40%) Firewall
2 15 (0.71%) HTTP
2 15 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.66%) Wireless
4 13 (0.61%) DNS
4 13 (0.61%) Internet
4 13 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 10 (0.47%) SSL
6 7 (0.33%) AMQP
7 6 (0.28%) SAN
8 4 (0.19%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) Broadband
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) FTP
9 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.14%) RFID
9 3 (0.14%) SMTP
9 3 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.14%) VPN
9 3 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (14.62%) Oracle Database
2 234 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 189 (8.89%) Oracle Reports
4 142 (6.68%) Relational Database
5 125 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 102 (4.80%) Power BI
7 99 (4.65%) MySQL
8 79 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
9 72 (3.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 53 (2.49%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.07%) Metadata
11 44 (2.07%) RDBMS
12 40 (1.88%) Pentaho
13 36 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (1.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 26 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 25 (1.18%) NoSQL
16 24 (1.13%) Data Lake
17 23 (1.08%) BigQuery
18 22 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 169 (7.95%) JIRA
2 137 (6.44%) Git
3 95 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 67 (3.15%) GitLab
5 59 (2.77%) Oracle APEX
6 34 (1.60%) Postman
7 32 (1.50%) JUnit
7 32 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
8 25 (1.18%) Maven
9 22 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.03%) Selenium
10 20 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (0.89%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
12 17 (0.80%) Xcode
13 16 (0.75%) SoapUI
14 15 (0.71%) Android Studio
15 13 (0.61%) Mockito
15 13 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 687 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 672 (31.59%) Finance
3 249 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 164 (7.71%) Banking
6 73 (3.43%) General Ledger
7 71 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.21%) Retail
10 38 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 33 (1.55%) Billing
12 29 (1.36%) Legal
12 29 (1.36%) Local Government
13 26 (1.22%) Investment Banking
14 25 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (0.94%) Front Office
16 20 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 321 (15.09%) Developer
2 284 (13.35%) Consultant
3 232 (10.91%) Lead
4 208 (9.78%) Oracle Consultant
5 201 (9.45%) Senior
6 189 (8.89%) Analyst
7 188 (8.84%) Architect
8 86 (4.04%) Oracle Developer
9 82 (3.86%) DBA
10 80 (3.76%) Functional Consultant
10 80 (3.76%) Project Manager
11 77 (3.62%) Data Engineer
12 74 (3.48%) Oracle Specialist
13 73 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
14 69 (3.24%) Oracle Functional Consultant
15 68 (3.20%) Oracle DBA
16 62 (2.91%) Business Analyst
17 60 (2.82%) Oracle Architect
18 59 (2.77%) Senior Developer
19 56 (2.63%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (18.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 151 (7.10%) REST
3 118 (5.55%) .NET
4 109 (5.12%) XML
5 105 (4.94%) SOAP
6 77 (3.62%) Kafka
7 74 (3.48%) Middleware
8 72 (3.39%) JSON
8 72 (3.39%) Web Services
9 64 (3.01%) React
9 64 (3.01%) Spring
10 58 (2.73%) Spring Boot
11 50 (2.35%) .NET Framework
12 48 (2.26%) HTML
13 47 (2.21%) CSS
14 46 (2.16%) AngularJS
15 31 (1.46%) OAuth
16 28 (1.32%) RESTful
17 27 (1.27%) XSLT
18 26 (1.22%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
2 56 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 40 (1.88%) Onboarding
4 39 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 36 (1.69%) Replication
6 35 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 27 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 20 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 16 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (0.75%) Derivative
16 14 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.66%) NHS
16 14 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 257 (12.08%) Linux
2 199 (9.36%) Windows
3 171 (8.04%) Unix
4 48 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.94%) Solaris
7 19 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (0.80%) Android
9 13 (0.61%) AIX
10 10 (0.47%) CentOS
10 10 (0.47%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.38%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.14%) VMS
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (21.16%) Agile
2 417 (19.61%) ERP
3 374 (17.58%) Migration
4 355 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
5 290 (13.63%) DevOps
6 254 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 238 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
8 230 (10.81%) CI/CD
9 200 (9.40%) Data Migration
10 187 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 170 (7.99%) Data Modelling
12 168 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 168 (7.90%) Validation
13 164 (7.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 157 (7.38%) ETL
15 141 (6.63%) Test Automation
16 140 (6.58%) Analytics
16 140 (6.58%) Scrum
17 109 (5.12%) Change Management
18 101 (4.75%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 686 (32.25%) SQL
2 277 (13.02%) Java
3 247 (11.61%) PL/SQL
4 225 (10.58%) Python
5 138 (6.49%) JavaScript
6 130 (6.11%) C#
7 78 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 64 (3.01%) Perl
9 47 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 43 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.74%) C++
12 29 (1.36%) Groovy
13 24 (1.13%) Bash
14 23 (1.08%) VB
15 22 (1.03%) VBA
16 12 (0.56%) C
16 12 (0.56%) Korn
16 12 (0.56%) PHP
16 12 (0.56%) TypeScript
17 10 (0.47%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 461 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 358 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 176 (8.27%) Degree
4 50 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
8 26 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.03%) PMP
10 21 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 21 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.80%) ACCA
11 17 (0.80%) CIMA
12 14 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.61%) OCA
14 11 (0.52%) OCP
15 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.55%) QA
2 109 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.44%) GDPR
4 47 (2.21%) SLA
5 39 (1.83%) PMO
6 34 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 31 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.13%) NIST
9 23 (1.08%) COBIT
10 20 (0.94%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.80%) SEPA
12 14 (0.66%) GAAP
13 13 (0.61%) IFRS
14 12 (0.56%) ITGC
14 12 (0.56%) PSD2
15 9 (0.42%) Accessibility
15 9 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
15 9 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.33%) IFRS 17
16 7 (0.33%) SOX 404
System Software
1 129 (6.06%) Docker
2 38 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
3 35 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 22 (1.03%) NFS
6 21 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.89%) GPFS
8 16 (0.75%) vSphere
9 10 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.28%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 6 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.24%) NDS
12 5 (0.24%) NetIQ eDirectory
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Clusterware
14 2 (0.094%) GridGain
14 2 (0.094%) KVM
15 1 (0.047%) Firmware
15 1 (0.047%) HDFS
15 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 136 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 61 (2.87%) Terraform
3 48 (2.26%) Ansible
4 34 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
5 29 (1.36%) Grafana
6 27 (1.27%) Data Guard
7 18 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 16 (0.75%) vRealize
9 14 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.42%) Control-M
10 9 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.33%) CA Wily
11 7 (0.33%) Kibana
11 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.33%) TIBCO Hawk
11 7 (0.33%) Tivoli
12 6 (0.28%) CEMLI
12 6 (0.28%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 193 (9.07%) Microsoft
2 176 (8.27%) SAP
3 75 (3.53%) IBM
4 64 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.96%) Workday
6 58 (2.73%) Talend
7 53 (2.49%) Informatica
8 49 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.26%) Splunk
9 48 (2.26%) VMware
10 40 (1.88%) Citrix
11 29 (1.36%) Databricks
12 27 (1.27%) Cisco
12 27 (1.27%) Denodo
13 25 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.13%) Google
15 22 (1.03%) TIBCO
16 18 (0.85%) AppDynamics
16 18 (0.85%) Cerner
16 18 (0.85%) CyberArk