WebLogic Contract Job Trends

Oracle WebLogic Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebLogic skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 470 526
Rank change year-on-year -158 +56 +56
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 69 91 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.27% 0.098%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.46% 2.53% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 29
10th Percentile £402 £363 £396
25th Percentile £409 £404 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £438 £555
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -21.17% +8.29%
75th Percentile £521 £539 £605
90th Percentile £575 £734 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -2.63% -11.26% +7.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

WebLogic 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 4,734 3,602 4,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.56% 10.85% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,035 2,373 2,588
10th Percentile £286 £277 £263
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £645
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +4.22% -2.70% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 87 75
10th Percentile £14.80 £16.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £33.88 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -8.43% +20.33%
75th Percentile £54.50 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.87 £72.50 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £33.33 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.56% -36.52% +75.00%

WebLogic
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebLogic job vacancy trend in the UK

WebLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WebLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebLogic over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebLogic in the UK

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

WebLogic
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -129 58 £466 +3.50% 21
UK excluding London -129 41 £463 -2.63% 12
Work from Home -66 30 £469 +9.07% 7
Midlands -49 20 £459 -12.57% 5
West Midlands -47 17 £438 -16.67% 5
London -76 14 £420 +4.70% 9
North of England -63 12 £492 +18.29% 5
East of England -37 7 - -
Yorkshire - 6 £492 -
North East - 6 £490 - 5
East Midlands -9 3 £463 +29.19%
South East -70 3 £402 -14.24% 1
Scotland -35 1 - - 1

WebLogic
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 14 (20.29%) WebSphere
2 13 (18.84%) nginx
2 13 (18.84%) Tomcat
3 11 (15.94%) WebLogic Portal
4 10 (14.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (13.04%) Apache
6 5 (7.25%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (7.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 5 (7.25%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (7.25%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (2.90%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (1.45%) Confluence
8 1 (1.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (8.70%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) AWS
2 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
2 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (8.70%) Serverless
2 6 (8.70%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (1.45%) Azure
3 1 (1.45%) MinIO
3 1 (1.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.09%) Oracle Database
2 15 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (11.59%) Oracle Database 10g
3 8 (11.59%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (11.59%) Oracle Database 12c
4 6 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.90%) GIS
6 2 (2.90%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Git
2 12 (17.39%) Maven
3 7 (10.14%) JIRA
4 6 (8.70%) Toad
5 5 (7.25%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (5.80%) Flyway
6 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
6 4 (5.80%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (4.35%) GitLab
8 1 (1.45%) Claude Code
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Finance
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Developer
1 23 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 14 (20.29%) DBA
2 14 (20.29%) Oracle DBA
3 12 (17.39%) Oracle Developer
3 12 (17.39%) WebLogic Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Consultant
4 7 (10.14%) Java Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) JDE CNC Consultant
4 7 (10.14%) JDE Consultant
5 6 (8.70%) Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) SAP Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) SAP Test Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) Test Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Oracle Specialist
6 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Platform Specialist
7 2 (2.90%) Senior
7 2 (2.90%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.03%) Middleware
2 9 (13.04%) Spring
3 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
4 6 (8.70%) Node.js
4 6 (8.70%) XML
5 4 (5.80%) EJB
5 4 (5.80%) Java SE
5 4 (5.80%) JSP
6 3 (4.35%) JDBC
6 3 (4.35%) JWT
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth
6 3 (4.35%) ODBC
6 3 (4.35%) REST
7 2 (2.90%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (2.90%) OpenLayers
7 2 (2.90%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.45%) SOAP
8 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.70%) Clustering
3 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (40.58%) Linux
2 15 (21.74%) Unix
3 7 (10.14%) Windows
4 5 (7.25%) Solaris
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.45%) AIX
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
2 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
4 12 (17.39%) Batch Processing
4 12 (17.39%) DevOps
5 11 (15.94%) Agile
5 11 (15.94%) SOA
6 9 (13.04%) Dependency Management
6 9 (13.04%) Validation
7 7 (10.14%) JVM Tuning
7 7 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (10.14%) Project Management
8 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 6 (8.70%) Defect Management
8 6 (8.70%) ETL
8 6 (8.70%) ITIL
8 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 42 (60.87%) SQL
2 40 (57.97%) Java
3 16 (23.19%) PL/SQL
4 11 (15.94%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.80%) Python
6 1 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (57.97%) Security Cleared
2 38 (55.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (8.70%) ISEB
4 6 (8.70%) ISTQB
4 6 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (7.25%) CISSP
6 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.84%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (8.70%) Data Guard
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 62 (89.86%) Oracle
2 11 (15.94%) IBM
3 7 (10.14%) JD Edwards
4 6 (8.70%) SAP
4 6 (8.70%) webMethods
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.90%) VMware
6 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk