Oracle Contract Job Trends 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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 36 27
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 20 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.57% 2.58% 6.34%
As % of the Vendors category 14.18% 6.40% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile £292 £225 £205
25th Percentile £313 £414 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £338
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +44.44% -35.71%
75th Percentile £405 £547 £545
90th Percentile £444 £583 £744
UK median daily rate £512 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £60.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -37.50% +4.67% +63.79%

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 141 172 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.28% 40.38% 52.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 104 177
10th Percentile £187 £146 £180
25th Percentile £230 £210 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £483 £544 £588
90th Percentile £623 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 9
10th Percentile £14.16 £22.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.69 £25.60 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £43.64 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -53.02% +82.48% +44.94%
75th Percentile £21.50 £54.69 £27.25
90th Percentile £21.90 £79.00 £49.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Wales over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Wales

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Oracle

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 20 September 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 +17 19 £375 -23.08% 2
Dyfed - 1 £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 12 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 11 (55.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 11 (55.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) JBoss
3 1 (5.00%) nginx
3 1 (5.00%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (5.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) OCI
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Power Query
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Consultant
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 5 (25.00%) SOA Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Lead
5 3 (15.00%) BPM Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Middleware Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
7 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) JSON
1 8 (40.00%) OAuth
1 8 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 8 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 8 (40.00%) REST
1 8 (40.00%) SOAP
1 8 (40.00%) Swagger
1 8 (40.00%) XML
1 8 (40.00%) XSD
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) SOA
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 9 (45.00%) API Management
5 8 (40.00%) API Design
5 8 (40.00%) BPEL
5 8 (40.00%) SDLC
5 8 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
5 8 (40.00%) Validation
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.00%) ETL
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
9 2 (10.00%) Batch Processing
9 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
9 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JCL
5 2 (10.00%) Korn
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Control-M
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) BT
3 1 (5.00%) Commvault
3 1 (5.00%) Micro Focus
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Xerox
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler