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 17 February 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
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 28 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -31
Contract jobs citing Oracle 204 87 64
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.87% 6.05% 3.37%
As % of the Vendors category 16.18% 12.13% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 58 43
10th Percentile £391 £407 £355
25th Percentile £450 £464 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £571 £648 £625
90th Percentile £645 £758 £705
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -9.23% +116.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +103.85% -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 1,261 717 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.67% 49.83% 45.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 462 535
10th Percentile £268 £200 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £699 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 51
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.48 £11.06
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.13 £13.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.80 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -3.11% +26.98%
75th Percentile £28.61 £31.49 £26.50
90th Percentile £49.00 £35.00 £41.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £26.78
% change year-on-year -22.87% +15.35% -20.06%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -1 98 £520 +9.94% 43
Birmingham -22 34 £506 -15.63% 22
Coventry +4 27 £439 -
Warwickshire -14 18 £525 -14.77% 7
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 -
Herefordshire -18 1 £513 -
Solihull - 1 £447 -
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 59 (28.92%) SAS
2 15 (7.35%) WebLogic
3 8 (3.92%) Apache
4 6 (2.94%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) Liferay
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Geronimo
6 1 (0.49%) Apache ServiceMix
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.94%) Primavera
2 3 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.98%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.98%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 48 (23.53%) AWS
2 20 (9.80%) Azure
3 11 (5.39%) OCI
4 6 (2.94%) OpenShift
4 6 (2.94%) SaaS
5 5 (2.45%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) GCP
8 1 (0.49%) GitHub
8 1 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.49%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) VSAN
1 2 (0.98%) Wireless
2 1 (0.49%) BGP
2 1 (0.49%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.49%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) IPsec
2 1 (0.49%) OSPF
2 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.53%) Oracle Database
2 38 (18.63%) Pentaho
3 35 (17.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 15 (7.35%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (4.90%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.41%) MySQL
7 8 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.92%) Metadata
7 8 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.45%) Power BI
10 4 (1.96%) Ingres
10 4 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.47%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.47%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.47%) SQLPlus
12 2 (0.98%) EDMS
12 2 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (0.98%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 40 (19.61%) Git
2 32 (15.69%) JIRA
3 27 (13.24%) Jenkins
4 18 (8.82%) GitLab
5 9 (4.41%) JUnit
5 9 (4.41%) Selenium
6 5 (2.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.96%) Toad
8 3 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.47%) Gatling
8 3 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.98%) JMeter
9 2 (0.98%) Maven
9 2 (0.98%) Mockito
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.49%) Deequ
10 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Finance
3 32 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.90%) Local Government
5 5 (2.45%) Legal
5 5 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.47%) Back Office
6 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Aeronautics
7 2 (0.98%) General Ledger
7 2 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Billing
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Marketing
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 24 (11.76%) Analyst
3 19 (9.31%) Architect
4 17 (8.33%) Release Manager
5 16 (7.84%) Storage Analyst
6 12 (5.88%) Consultant
6 12 (5.88%) DBA
6 12 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
6 12 (5.88%) Senior
7 11 (5.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (5.39%) Lead
7 11 (5.39%) SAS Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Accountant
8 8 (3.92%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.43%) Senior Accountant
9 7 (3.43%) Test Specialist
10 6 (2.94%) Denodo Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.45%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 5 (2.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (9.31%) Flash
3 12 (5.88%) REST
4 10 (4.90%) Spring
5 9 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.92%) XML
7 7 (3.43%) JSON
8 6 (2.94%) pytest
9 5 (2.45%) Middleware
9 5 (2.45%) Playwright
10 4 (1.96%) ADO
11 3 (1.47%) .NET
11 3 (1.47%) JDBC
11 3 (1.47%) React
12 2 (0.98%) Gherkin
12 2 (0.98%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.98%) OpenID
12 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.98%) Spring Batch
12 2 (0.98%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (9.31%) Replication
2 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.47%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.49%) FMCG
8 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.69%) Linux
2 20 (9.80%) Unix
3 13 (6.37%) Windows
4 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.80%) Agile
2 58 (28.43%) CI/CD
3 47 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (20.59%) Scrum
5 40 (19.61%) ETL
6 39 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (18.63%) Analytics
7 38 (18.63%) Data Integration
8 35 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 31 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (15.20%) DevOps
11 30 (14.71%) Data Modelling
12 28 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
12 28 (13.73%) Migration
13 26 (12.75%) Integration Patterns
14 25 (12.25%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (12.25%) ERP
15 23 (11.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (38.73%) SQL
2 25 (12.25%) Java
3 13 (6.37%) Python
4 12 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.92%) PL/SQL
6 5 (2.45%) Perl
7 4 (1.96%) VB
8 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.98%) VB6
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) COBOL
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (46.57%) Security Cleared
2 88 (43.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.43%) Degree
4 5 (2.45%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.47%) ACCA
6 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.47%) CIMA
6 3 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.98%) ISEB
7 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.98%) PMP
7 2 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.90%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) SLA
4 4 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.96%) PMO
5 3 (1.47%) FATCA
5 3 (1.47%) WCAG
6 2 (0.98%) ITGC
7 1 (0.49%) GAAP
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS
7 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (14.22%) Docker
2 19 (9.31%) GPFS
2 19 (9.31%) NFS
3 16 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.84%) vSphere
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.84%) vRealize
3 4 (1.96%) Grafana
3 4 (1.96%) Kibana
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.47%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.98%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.98%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.98%) Terraform
5 2 (0.98%) VxRail
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 45 (22.06%) Talend
2 27 (13.24%) Denodo
3 21 (10.29%) Cisco
4 19 (9.31%) IBM
4 19 (9.31%) ServiceNow
5 18 (8.82%) Informatica
6 17 (8.33%) SAP
7 16 (7.84%) VMware
8 11 (5.39%) Microsoft
9 9 (4.41%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.94%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.94%) Splunk
11 5 (2.45%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.96%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.98%) Actian
13 2 (0.98%) HP
13 2 (0.98%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.98%) Remedy
13 2 (0.98%) Sage
13 2 (0.98%) webMethods