Oracle Contracts in Wales

Oracle
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 4.05% 4.88%
As % of the Vendors category 6.30% 10.39% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £271 £381 £433
25th Percentile £330 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -9.52% +0.48%
75th Percentile £392 £588 £550
90th Percentile £400 £623 £645
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.64% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.40 £38.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year -21.04% -40.31% +77.32%

All Vendors
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 127 154 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.34% 38.99% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 108 214
10th Percentile £185 £207 £189
25th Percentile £250 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £550
90th Percentile £578 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £14.11 £11.02 £14.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.56 £16.13
Median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%
75th Percentile £32.25 £86.45 £44.31
90th Percentile £41.25 £87.80 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in Wales

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in Wales

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Wales

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in Wales

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales -3 6 £321 -32.37% 12
Dyfed - 2 £375 -
Oracle
UK

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) JBoss
2 3 (37.50%) nginx
2 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
3 2 (25.00%) Confluence
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Commvault Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) LXC
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Commvault
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) VMware