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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 32 54
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -35
Contract jobs citing Oracle 255 74 60
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.98% 5.58% 3.09%
As % of the Vendors category 18.51% 11.21% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 53 41
10th Percentile £357 £380 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £557 £638 £625
90th Percentile £645 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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 £40.21 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +60.38% -58.57%

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 1,378 660 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.52% 49.77% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 434 555
10th Percentile £293 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 58
10th Percentile £16.06 £12.25 £11.11
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.40 £13.44
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.50 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% +1.43% +8.49%
75th Percentile £30.56 £30.17 £26.98
90th Percentile £65.72 £34.03 £46.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +1 133 £470 -1.47% 25
Birmingham -11 39 £488 -13.33% 20
Coventry -1 26 £439 - 3
Warwickshire -15 19 £563 -7.33% 1
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 - 1
Staffordshire -4 1 £375 -31.82% 4
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 72 (28.24%) SAS
2 13 (5.10%) Confluence
3 12 (4.71%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.96%) Apache
5 4 (1.57%) Tuxedo
6 2 (0.78%) Liferay
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Geronimo
7 1 (0.39%) Apache ServiceMix
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.96%) Primavera
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.78%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 64 (25.10%) AWS
2 22 (8.63%) Azure
3 14 (5.49%) OCI
4 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.75%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.35%) SaaS
7 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.57%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.18%) GitHub
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.78%) PaaS
9 2 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) VSAN
2 2 (0.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.78%) Pentaho
2 50 (19.61%) Oracle Database
3 34 (13.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 33 (12.94%) Oracle Reports
5 22 (8.63%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (7.06%) MySQL
7 10 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.92%) Power BI
8 9 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.14%) Metadata
9 8 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.57%) IDMS
10 4 (1.57%) Ingres
10 4 (1.57%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.18%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 49 (19.22%) Git
1 49 (19.22%) JIRA
2 31 (12.16%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.37%) GitLab
4 13 (5.10%) Zephyr
5 11 (4.31%) Postman
6 10 (3.92%) JUnit
6 10 (3.92%) Selenium
7 5 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.57%) CA Gen
8 4 (1.57%) Toad
9 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.18%) Gatling
9 3 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.78%) JMeter
10 2 (0.78%) Maven
10 2 (0.78%) Mockito
10 2 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 70 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 41 (16.08%) Finance
4 17 (6.67%) Local Government
5 11 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.53%) Legal
7 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Advertising
9 3 (1.18%) Back Office
10 2 (0.78%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (23.14%) Data Engineer
2 30 (11.76%) Analyst
3 21 (8.24%) Architect
4 18 (7.06%) Release Manager
4 18 (7.06%) Storage Analyst
5 17 (6.67%) DBA
6 15 (5.88%) Senior
7 13 (5.10%) Oracle DBA
8 12 (4.71%) Consultant
8 12 (4.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (4.71%) Lead
9 11 (4.31%) Accountant
9 11 (4.31%) SAS Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Tester
10 10 (3.92%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.92%) QA Tester
10 10 (3.92%) Senior Accountant
11 9 (3.53%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 9 (3.53%) Systems Accountant
12 8 (3.14%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (7.06%) Flash
3 11 (4.31%) REST
4 10 (3.92%) Spring
5 9 (3.53%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.14%) XML
7 7 (2.75%) JSON
7 7 (2.75%) pytest
8 5 (1.96%) Playwright
9 4 (1.57%) ADO
9 4 (1.57%) Middleware
10 3 (1.18%) .NET
10 3 (1.18%) JDBC
10 3 (1.18%) React
11 2 (0.78%) OAuth
11 2 (0.78%) OpenID
11 2 (0.78%) PySpark
11 2 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.78%) WebCenter
11 2 (0.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Linux Command Line
1 18 (7.06%) Replication
2 11 (4.31%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.57%) Robotics
5 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.18%) SCADA
5 3 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.78%) IoT
6 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.39%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.98%) Linux
2 27 (10.59%) Unix
3 10 (3.92%) Windows
4 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.08%) Agile
2 73 (28.63%) ETL
3 66 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 54 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (20.39%) Test Automation
6 50 (19.61%) Scrum
7 47 (18.43%) Data Integration
8 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (16.86%) Analytics
10 42 (16.47%) Migration
10 42 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (15.29%) Data Modelling
12 38 (14.90%) DevOps
13 34 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (11.76%) ERP
16 27 (10.59%) Test Scripting
16 27 (10.59%) Validation
17 26 (10.20%) Architectural Patterns
17 26 (10.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 112 (43.92%) SQL
2 28 (10.98%) Java
3 22 (8.63%) Python
4 16 (6.27%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.71%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.35%) Bash
7 5 (1.96%) Perl
8 4 (1.57%) VB
9 3 (1.18%) Bicep
9 3 (1.18%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.78%) VB6
11 1 (0.39%) COBOL
11 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 127 (49.80%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.10%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.35%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.57%) OCP
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.78%) ACCA
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.78%) CIMA
9 2 (0.78%) ISEB
9 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.78%) PMP
9 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.24%) QA
3 7 (2.75%) SLA
4 5 (1.96%) PMO
5 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.18%) FATCA
6 3 (1.18%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) GDPR
7 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.78%) ITGC
8 1 (0.39%) GAAP
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (11.37%) Docker
2 18 (7.06%) GPFS
2 18 (7.06%) NFS
3 15 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.88%) vSphere
4 4 (1.57%) HDFS
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.88%) vRealize
3 7 (2.75%) Grafana
4 5 (1.96%) Ansible
4 5 (1.96%) Terraform
5 4 (1.57%) Kibana
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.18%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.18%) VxRail
7 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 66 (25.88%) Talend
2 39 (15.29%) Informatica
3 29 (11.37%) Denodo
4 20 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.84%) SAP
5 18 (7.06%) IBM
5 18 (7.06%) ServiceNow
6 16 (6.27%) Cisco
7 15 (5.88%) VMware
8 7 (2.75%) Sage
9 6 (2.35%) Cloudera
9 6 (2.35%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.96%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.18%) Databricks
11 3 (1.18%) Splunk
12 2 (0.78%) Actian
12 2 (0.78%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.78%) Remedy
12 2 (0.78%) webMethods