OCI Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 96 109
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 +66
Contract jobs citing OCI 6 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.96% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 3.20% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile - £513 £333
25th Percentile £500 £516 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +9.81% -16.08%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £739
90th Percentile £741 £713 £743
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 665 563 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.81% 29.90% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 369 520
10th Percentile £300 £228 £200
25th Percentile £420 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £595
90th Percentile £700 £688 £689
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £16.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £25.84 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 - £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OCI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OCI job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OCI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Birmingham -19 2 £650 +4.04% 5
Coventry - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £600 - 9
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Payroll Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Business Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Conversion
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Record to Report
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft