Oracle Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 April 2026, 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
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 35 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -38
Contract jobs citing Oracle 288 68 53
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.54% 5.03% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 20.48% 10.35% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 52 36
10th Percentile £358 £375 £350
25th Percentile £415 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £505 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% -2.51% -4.07%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £628
90th Percentile £625 £662 £703
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £17.06 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +60.38% -58.40%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,406 657 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.59% 48.59% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 442 536
10th Percentile £305 £200 £258
25th Percentile £400 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £689 £698
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 53
10th Percentile £17.39 £12.25 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.22 £13.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.76 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +59.96% -5.99% +10.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.17 £26.98
90th Percentile £70.35 £34.03 £55.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -41.75%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the West Midlands

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the West Midlands

Oracle
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 April 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 +5 157 £470 -1.47% 22
Birmingham +2 47 £500 -6.98% 19
Coventry -1 25 £402 - 2
Warwickshire -13 20 £525 -16.00% 7
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 -
Staffordshire 0 1 £375 +26.90% 1
Oracle
England

Oracle
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 92 (31.94%) SAS
2 12 (4.17%) Confluence
2 12 (4.17%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.08%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 5 (1.74%) Apache
7 4 (1.39%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.69%) Liferay
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.35%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.74%) Notepad++
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.43%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (2.43%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (2.08%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.69%) Primavera
3 2 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.35%) AWS
2 35 (12.15%) Azure
3 12 (4.17%) OCI
4 8 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.43%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.08%) PaaS
7 5 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.74%) SaaS
8 4 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.39%) GitHub
8 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.04%) Serverless
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) Firewall
2 5 (1.74%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.74%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.39%) VSAN
4 3 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.10%) Pentaho
2 50 (17.36%) Oracle Database
3 42 (14.58%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 40 (13.89%) Oracle Reports
5 30 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (5.56%) MySQL
7 14 (4.86%) Metadata
8 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (3.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 9 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.78%) Power BI
12 7 (2.43%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.39%) IDMS
14 4 (1.39%) Ingres
14 4 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (18.40%) JIRA
2 50 (17.36%) Git
3 36 (12.50%) GitLab
4 34 (11.81%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.21%) Zephyr
6 13 (4.51%) Postman
7 7 (2.43%) JUnit
7 7 (2.43%) Selenium
8 5 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.39%) CA Gen
9 4 (1.39%) Toad
10 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.69%) JMeter
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.35%) Gatling
General
1 75 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.36%) Public Sector
3 44 (15.28%) Finance
4 24 (8.33%) Local Government
5 19 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.82%) Legal
7 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Advertising
9 3 (1.04%) Back Office
9 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 74 (25.69%) Data Engineer
2 29 (10.07%) Analyst
3 24 (8.33%) Release Manager
4 22 (7.64%) Architect
5 19 (6.60%) Storage Analyst
6 18 (6.25%) SAS Engineer
7 16 (5.56%) Senior
8 14 (4.86%) DBA
9 13 (4.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 13 (4.51%) Tester
10 12 (4.17%) Accountant
10 12 (4.17%) Lead
11 11 (3.82%) QA Tester
11 11 (3.82%) Senior Accountant
11 11 (3.82%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 11 (3.82%) Systems Accountant
12 10 (3.47%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.47%) Oracle Specialist
13 9 (3.13%) Oracle DBA
14 8 (2.78%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (6.60%) Flash
3 10 (3.47%) REST
4 8 (2.78%) XML
5 7 (2.43%) pytest
5 7 (2.43%) Spring
6 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.39%) ADO
7 4 (1.39%) JSON
7 4 (1.39%) Middleware
8 3 (1.04%) Kafka
9 2 (0.69%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.69%) COM
9 2 (0.69%) ODBC
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle ADF
9 2 (0.69%) WebCenter
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Axis
10 1 (0.35%) JDBC
10 1 (0.35%) JSP
10 1 (0.35%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (6.60%) Replication
3 13 (4.51%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.08%) SCADA
7 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.39%) Robotics
8 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.04%) IoT
8 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.19%) Unix
2 36 (12.50%) Linux
3 13 (4.51%) Windows
4 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (34.03%) Agile
2 91 (31.60%) ETL
3 77 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 59 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 59 (20.49%) Data Integration
4 59 (20.49%) Test Automation
5 58 (20.14%) Migration
6 54 (18.75%) Analytics
7 53 (18.40%) Scrum
8 51 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (17.36%) DevOps
10 45 (15.63%) Data Modelling
11 41 (14.24%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (12.15%) Validation
14 29 (10.07%) ERP
14 29 (10.07%) Test Scripting
15 28 (9.72%) Change Management
16 27 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 138 (47.92%) SQL
2 24 (8.33%) Java
3 23 (7.99%) PL/SQL
4 22 (7.64%) Python
5 16 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.43%) Bash
7 5 (1.74%) Perl
8 4 (1.39%) Bicep
8 4 (1.39%) VB
9 3 (1.04%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.69%) VB6
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 161 (55.90%) Security Cleared
2 150 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.21%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.43%) Degree
6 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.39%) OCP
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.04%) PMP
9 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) ISEB
10 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.35%) ACCA
11 1 (0.35%) CIMA
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.99%) QA
3 7 (2.43%) SLA
4 6 (2.08%) PMO
5 4 (1.39%) GDPR
5 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.04%) FATCA
7 2 (0.69%) ITGC
8 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.35%) GAAP
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (12.15%) Docker
2 19 (6.60%) GPFS
2 19 (6.60%) NFS
2 19 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (5.56%) vSphere
4 5 (1.74%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.04%) HDFS
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle Clusterware
6 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (16.32%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.56%) vRealize
3 6 (2.08%) Terraform
4 5 (1.74%) Ansible
4 5 (1.74%) Grafana
5 4 (1.39%) VxRail
6 3 (1.04%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (25.35%) Talend
2 46 (15.97%) Informatica
3 38 (13.19%) Denodo
4 25 (8.68%) Microsoft
5 20 (6.94%) SAP
6 19 (6.60%) IBM
6 19 (6.60%) ServiceNow
6 19 (6.60%) VMware
7 17 (5.90%) Cisco
8 7 (2.43%) Cloudera
8 7 (2.43%) Sage
9 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.39%) Databricks
12 2 (0.69%) Actian
12 2 (0.69%) HP
12 2 (0.69%) Remedy
12 2 (0.69%) Splunk
12 2 (0.69%) webMethods
55 Oracle jobs in the West Midlands