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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 38 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Oracle 327 65 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.13% 4.51% 3.70%
As % of the Vendors category 22.55% 9.27% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 48 49
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +3.59% -9.72%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £593 £643 £701
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.60
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.95 - -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £31.36 £26.00
% change year-on-year +33.03% +20.60% -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 1,450 701 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.93% 48.65% 42.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 433 560
10th Percentile £313 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £554 £588 £620
90th Percentile £650 £674 £700
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 29 54
10th Percentile £20.31 £14.86 £11.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.33 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +15.89% +74.38% -14.19%
75th Percentile £53.75 £37.50 £28.31
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.88
England median hourly rate £33.98 £27.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.07% +15.07% -39.01%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +20 193 £459 -10.00% 18
Birmingham +13 57 £519 -7.78% 19
Warwickshire -23 20 £475 - 6
Coventry -10 15 £402 -5.41% 1
Staffordshire +1 7 £900 +204.57% 13
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 75 (22.94%) SAS
2 37 (11.31%) Confluence
3 16 (4.89%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.45%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.14%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (1.22%) Apache
9 2 (0.61%) Liferay
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.31%) Apache Geronimo
10 1 (0.31%) Apache ServiceMix
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (4.59%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (3.98%) Oracle General Ledger
2 13 (3.98%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (3.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (1.83%) Oracle HRMS
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (33.64%) AWS
2 42 (12.84%) Azure
3 11 (3.36%) PaaS
3 11 (3.36%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.14%) GitHub
4 7 (2.14%) OCI
5 6 (1.83%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.53%) Serverless
7 4 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.22%) SaaS
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Firewall
2 5 (1.53%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.53%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.22%) VSAN
4 3 (0.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.74%) Pentaho
2 52 (15.90%) Oracle Reports
3 46 (14.07%) Oracle Database
4 45 (13.76%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (7.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 17 (5.20%) MySQL
7 15 (4.59%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.28%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (4.28%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 12 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (3.36%) Power BI
11 9 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.75%) Ingres
12 8 (2.45%) Metadata
13 7 (2.14%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.53%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 68 (20.80%) JIRA
2 63 (19.27%) GitLab
3 41 (12.54%) Git
4 32 (9.79%) Zephyr
5 26 (7.95%) Postman
6 22 (6.73%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.36%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.45%) Selenium
9 6 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.22%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.61%) JMeter
13 2 (0.61%) JUnit
13 2 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
14 1 (0.31%) NeoLoad
General
1 76 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.88%) Public Sector
3 55 (16.82%) Finance
4 35 (10.70%) Local Government
5 19 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.36%) Legal
7 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.92%) Advertising
8 3 (0.92%) Billing
8 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Police
10 1 (0.31%) Banking
10 1 (0.31%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Law
10 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (27.83%) Data Engineer
2 28 (8.56%) Analyst
3 27 (8.26%) Lead
4 23 (7.03%) Release Manager
5 22 (6.73%) Architect
6 21 (6.42%) Senior
7 20 (6.12%) Tester
8 18 (5.50%) QA Tester
9 16 (4.89%) DBA
9 16 (4.89%) SAS Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Finance Manager
11 12 (3.67%) Developer
11 12 (3.67%) Storage Analyst
11 12 (3.67%) Test Analyst
12 11 (3.36%) Accountant
12 11 (3.36%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (3.36%) Senior Accountant
12 11 (3.36%) Senior Systems Accountant
12 11 (3.36%) Systems Accountant
13 9 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (4.59%) Flash
3 7 (2.14%) ADO
4 5 (1.53%) COM
4 5 (1.53%) ODBC
4 5 (1.53%) Spring
5 4 (1.22%) Middleware
5 4 (1.22%) REST
5 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.22%) Web Services
6 3 (0.92%) JSON
6 3 (0.92%) Kafka
6 3 (0.92%) XML
7 2 (0.61%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle ADF
7 2 (0.61%) pytest
8 1 (0.31%) JDBC
8 1 (0.31%) JSP
8 1 (0.31%) OLE
8 1 (0.31%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (4.59%) Replication
3 12 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.83%) SCADA
7 5 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.22%) Robotics
9 3 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.92%) IoT
10 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.31%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.31%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.82%) Unix
2 38 (11.62%) Linux
3 7 (2.14%) Windows
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.31%) AIX
6 1 (0.31%) HPUX
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
6 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (36.09%) ETL
2 112 (34.25%) Agile
3 83 (25.38%) Migration
4 77 (23.55%) Test Automation
5 63 (19.27%) CI/CD
6 60 (18.35%) Data Integration
7 53 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (15.60%) Data Modelling
9 47 (14.37%) Data Migration
9 47 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (13.15%) ERP
10 43 (13.15%) Scrum
11 41 (12.54%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (12.54%) DevOps
12 40 (12.23%) Analytics
13 37 (11.31%) Validation
14 34 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (10.09%) Integration Testing
15 33 (10.09%) Test Scripting
16 32 (9.79%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (52.60%) SQL
2 39 (11.93%) PL/SQL
3 25 (7.65%) Python
4 17 (5.20%) Java
5 13 (3.98%) Shell Script
6 9 (2.75%) Bash
7 7 (2.14%) VB
8 5 (1.53%) C
8 5 (1.53%) VB6
9 4 (1.22%) Bicep
9 4 (1.22%) Perl
10 3 (0.92%) HiveQL
11 2 (0.61%) ProC
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 200 (61.16%) Security Cleared
2 188 (57.49%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.34%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.83%) Degree
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.22%) OCP
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.92%) ACCA
7 3 (0.92%) CCAB
7 3 (0.92%) CIMA
7 3 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) PMP
8 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.01%) QA
2 23 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.75%) FATCA
4 8 (2.45%) SLA
5 4 (1.22%) GDPR
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.31%) ITGC
7 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (4.59%) GPFS
1 15 (4.59%) NFS
2 14 (4.28%) Docker
3 12 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (3.36%) vSphere
5 6 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.92%) HDFS
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Clusterware
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.36%) vRealize
3 7 (2.14%) Grafana
3 7 (2.14%) Terraform
4 5 (1.53%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (1.22%) VxRail
6 3 (0.92%) Ansible
7 2 (0.61%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 97 (29.66%) Talend
2 61 (18.65%) Informatica
3 41 (12.54%) Denodo
4 22 (6.73%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.20%) IBM
7 16 (4.89%) SAP
8 14 (4.28%) VMware
9 11 (3.36%) Cisco
10 9 (2.75%) Cloudera
10 9 (2.75%) Sage
11 6 (1.83%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.53%) Actian
12 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.22%) Databricks
13 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.61%) HP
15 1 (0.31%) Citrix
15 1 (0.31%) Siemens
15 1 (0.31%) TIBCO