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 10 October 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 348 129 124
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.81% 6.84% 6.52%
As % of the Vendors category 22.29% 12.90% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 87 81
10th Percentile £350 £394 £413
25th Percentile £408 £442 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -8.70% +16.46%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £713
90th Percentile £602 £688 £763
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.72
25th Percentile £51.25 - £19.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £23.60
75th Percentile £53.75 - £23.80
90th Percentile £56.75 - £23.92
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +38.89% -56.49%

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 1,561 1,000 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.98% 53.05% 47.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 641 594
10th Percentile £313 £251 £213
25th Percentile £402 £393 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £675 £651 £713
England median daily rate £515 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 36 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.71 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.48 £19.69 £17.32
Median hourly rate £20.62 £30.00 £28.81
Median % change year-on-year -31.28% +4.12% +25.27%
75th Percentile £33.98 £35.63 £42.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £56.63
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.18%

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 10 October 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
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 10 October 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 +1 179 £459 -12.57% 13
Birmingham +35 66 £525 -10.64% 82
Staffordshire +13 49 £475 - 1
Warwickshire -30 18 £400 -8.57% 10
Coventry -22 15 £325 -46.94% 4
Dudley - 1 £375 -
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 28 (8.05%) Confluence
2 25 (7.18%) SAS
3 15 (4.31%) WebLogic
4 9 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.72%) Tuxedo
6 3 (0.86%) Apache
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.74%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (3.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 12 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (3.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.15%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.57%) iTrent
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.16%) AWS
2 44 (12.64%) OCI
3 29 (8.33%) Azure
4 10 (2.87%) GitHub
4 10 (2.87%) PaaS
5 9 (2.59%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 7 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (2.01%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.44%) Tricentis Tosca
9 4 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.15%) Serverless
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) IPsec
2 1 (0.29%) Network Security
2 1 (0.29%) Telnet
2 1 (0.29%) VPN
2 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.22%) Pentaho
2 42 (12.07%) Oracle Reports
3 35 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (9.20%) Oracle Database
5 23 (6.61%) MySQL
6 21 (6.03%) SQL Server
7 19 (5.46%) MongoDB
8 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.16%) Ingres
10 10 (2.87%) BusinessObjects
10 10 (2.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 10 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.59%) Oracle Exadata
12 7 (2.01%) Power BI
12 7 (2.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 7 (2.01%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 6 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.72%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (19.54%) GitLab
2 60 (17.24%) JIRA
3 53 (15.23%) Git
4 28 (8.05%) Zephyr
5 24 (6.90%) Postman
6 17 (4.89%) Selenium
7 12 (3.45%) Maven
8 11 (3.16%) Artifactory
8 11 (3.16%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.16%) JUnit
9 10 (2.87%) Gatling
9 10 (2.87%) Jenkins
10 6 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.44%) Toad
12 4 (1.15%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.29%) Mockito
14 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 72 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 57 (16.38%) Finance
4 24 (6.90%) Local Government
5 19 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.01%) Police
7 4 (1.15%) Legal
8 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
8 3 (0.86%) Military
9 2 (0.57%) Automotive
9 2 (0.57%) Billing
9 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Banking
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (16.09%) Data Engineer
2 42 (12.07%) Lead
3 29 (8.33%) Analyst
4 27 (7.76%) Developer
5 25 (7.18%) Administrator
6 21 (6.03%) Consultant
6 21 (6.03%) Oracle Consultant
7 19 (5.46%) Senior
7 19 (5.46%) Test Analyst
8 16 (4.60%) Architect
9 14 (4.02%) DBA
9 14 (4.02%) Finance Manager
9 14 (4.02%) Java Engineer
10 13 (3.74%) Oracle Developer
10 13 (3.74%) Tester
11 12 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.45%) QA Tester
12 11 (3.16%) Release Manager
13 10 (2.87%) Oracle Project Manager
13 10 (2.87%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (28.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
3 18 (5.17%) REST
4 16 (4.60%) JSON
5 14 (4.02%) React
6 12 (3.45%) .NET
6 12 (3.45%) SOAP
7 11 (3.16%) Playwright
8 7 (2.01%) Middleware
8 7 (2.01%) Spring
8 7 (2.01%) Web Services
8 7 (2.01%) XML
9 6 (1.72%) Terraform
10 5 (1.44%) ADO
10 5 (1.44%) COM
10 5 (1.44%) ODBC
11 4 (1.15%) Flash
12 3 (0.86%) Gherkin
12 3 (0.86%) OAuth
12 3 (0.86%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.72%) Replication
5 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.15%) SCADA
7 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.57%) IoT
9 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.29%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.33%) Linux
2 22 (6.32%) Unix
3 12 (3.45%) Windows
4 5 (1.44%) SUSE
5 2 (0.57%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) HPUX
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (35.92%) Agile
2 89 (25.57%) ETL
3 83 (23.85%) Migration
4 75 (21.55%) Test Automation
5 62 (17.82%) Data Migration
6 55 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (14.66%) ERP
8 48 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (12.36%) Data Modelling
11 42 (12.07%) CI/CD
11 42 (12.07%) Data Integration
11 42 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 39 (11.21%) System Testing
12 39 (11.21%) Test Scripting
13 37 (10.63%) Integration Testing
13 37 (10.63%) Scrum
14 35 (10.06%) End-to-End Testing
15 34 (9.77%) Scenario Testing
16 33 (9.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 145 (41.67%) SQL
2 44 (12.64%) Java
3 31 (8.91%) PL/SQL
4 21 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.46%) Python
6 13 (3.74%) C
7 11 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.30%) ProC
9 6 (1.72%) VB
9 6 (1.72%) VB6
10 3 (0.86%) Bash
11 2 (0.57%) Bicep
11 2 (0.57%) R
11 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) C#
12 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 160 (45.98%) Security Cleared
2 149 (42.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (7.47%) ISTQB
5 9 (2.59%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.59%) OCP
5 9 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.44%) ISEB
7 4 (1.15%) ACCA
7 4 (1.15%) CCAB
7 4 (1.15%) CIMA
7 4 (1.15%) Degree
8 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.86%) PMP
9 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.64%) QA
2 21 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.16%) WCAG
4 10 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.72%) FATCA
6 4 (1.15%) SLA
7 3 (0.86%) GDPR
7 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.29%) GMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 13 (3.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.15%) GPFS
2 4 (1.15%) NFS
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.86%) vSphere
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.86%) vRealize
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (20.11%) Talend
2 37 (10.63%) Informatica
3 29 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 24 (6.90%) SAP
5 21 (6.03%) Denodo
6 11 (3.16%) IBM
7 7 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.72%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.44%) Actian
9 5 (1.44%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.44%) Sage
9 5 (1.44%) Siemens
10 4 (1.15%) webMethods
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco
11 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.86%) VMware
12 2 (0.57%) Databricks
12 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.29%) Workday