Oracle Certification Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 110 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 8 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.37% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.68% 1.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £436 £510 £527
25th Percentile £443 £526 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £552 £605
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -8.84% -
75th Percentile £448 £577 £671
90th Percentile £452 £593 £704
England median daily rate £490 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -14.78% -9.80% +8.51%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Oracle Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,174 528 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.08% 32.16% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 348 418
10th Percentile £345 £159 £307
25th Percentile £407 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -7.32% -5.09%
75th Percentile £544 £577 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 46 24
10th Percentile £16.45 £18.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.64 £20.40 £18.14
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -17.24% +34.26%
75th Percentile £67.84 £43.81 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.25 £58.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Oracle Certification job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Oracle Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
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 Oracle Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Shropshire -50 7 £447 - 1
Oracle Certification
England

Oracle Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) DBA
2 7 (87.50%) Administrator
3 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (100.00%) Database Security
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (87.50%) Data Management
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Database Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (100.00%) OCP
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle