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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 475 527
Rank change year-on-year -137 +52 +32
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 57 90 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.27% 0.093%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.21% 2.48% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 28
10th Percentile £406 £360 £402
25th Percentile £425 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £447 £557
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -19.68% +3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £606
90th Percentile £571 £734 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £558
% change year-on-year -6.10% -10.39% +3.33%

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 4,707 3,623 4,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 10.97% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,076 2,339 2,762
10th Percentile £281 £280 £275
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 95 88
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.59 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.06 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +8.05% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.13 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £48.56
% change year-on-year -21.22% -15.04% +6.73%

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 11 September 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 14 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 11 September 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 -128 47 £470 -6.10% 19
UK excluding London -139 34 £470 -6.10% 10
Work from Home -70 26 £469 +8.56% 8
Midlands -52 14 £463 -12.65% 2
London -71 12 £420 +4.70% 11
West Midlands -54 10 £459 -14.04% 2
North of England -67 8 £501 +24.50% 3
East of England -42 7 - - 2
North East - 6 £490 - 3
South East -57 5 £525 +5.00% 3
East Midlands -11 3 £463 +29.19%
Scotland -29 1 - -
North West -45 1 £650 +61.69%
Yorkshire - 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 8 (14.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (14.04%) Tomcat
1 8 (14.04%) WebSphere
2 7 (12.28%) nginx
3 5 (8.77%) WebLogic Portal
4 3 (5.26%) Apache
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (1.75%) Confluence
6 1 (1.75%) JBoss
6 1 (1.75%) Mule
6 1 (1.75%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) AWS
2 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
2 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (8.77%) Serverless
3 3 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (3.51%) Azure
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.75%) MinIO
5 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (26.32%) Oracle Database
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database 10g
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database 11g
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.51%) GIS
5 2 (3.51%) SQLite
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Git
2 7 (12.28%) Maven
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (7.02%) Flyway
4 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.02%) JIRA
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (5.26%) Toad
6 1 (1.75%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.75%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.75%) JUnit
General
1 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 12 (21.05%) DBA
3 12 (21.05%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (19.30%) Oracle Developer
5 10 (17.54%) WebLogic Developer
6 8 (14.04%) Consultant
7 7 (12.28%) Java Engineer
7 7 (12.28%) JDE CNC Consultant
7 7 (12.28%) JDE Consultant
8 4 (7.02%) Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Oracle Specialist
9 3 (5.26%) SAP Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) SAP Test Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Test Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Web Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) WebLogic Administrator
10 2 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (38.60%) Middleware
2 9 (15.79%) Spring
3 8 (14.04%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.77%) Java SE
4 5 (8.77%) XML
5 4 (7.02%) EJB
5 4 (7.02%) Jakarta EE
5 4 (7.02%) JSP
5 4 (7.02%) REST
6 3 (5.26%) JDBC
6 3 (5.26%) JWT
6 3 (5.26%) OAuth
6 3 (5.26%) ODBC
7 2 (3.51%) OpenLayers
7 2 (3.51%) SOAP
7 2 (3.51%) Web Services
8 1 (1.75%) JSON
8 1 (1.75%) LDAP
8 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (8.77%) Clustering
3 4 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (38.60%) Linux
2 12 (21.05%) Unix
3 5 (8.77%) Solaris
3 5 (8.77%) Windows
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (21.05%) DevOps
2 12 (21.05%) Test Automation
3 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
3 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (17.54%) Agile
5 9 (15.79%) SOA
6 8 (14.04%) Batch Processing
6 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.28%) ERP
7 7 (12.28%) ETL
7 7 (12.28%) Project Management
8 6 (10.53%) Dependency Management
8 6 (10.53%) JVM Tuning
8 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (10.53%) TDD
9 5 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.77%) Microservices
9 5 (8.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (61.40%) SQL
2 34 (59.65%) Java
3 17 (29.82%) PL/SQL
4 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.02%) Python
6 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 32 (56.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) ISEB
4 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (21.05%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) Data Guard
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) SELinux
6 1 (1.75%) systemd
Vendors
1 51 (89.47%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) JD Edwards
3 6 (10.53%) IBM
4 3 (5.26%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
4 3 (5.26%) webMethods
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.75%) Okta
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk