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 31 July 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing Oracle 362 80 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.46% 4.85% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 22.95% 10.36% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 57 52
10th Percentile £350 £385 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -3.80% -8.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £580
90th Percentile £624 £668 £704
England median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.90
25th Percentile £51.25 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.25
90th Percentile £54.95 - £23.30
England median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% -2.60% -30.00%

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 1,577 772 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.58% 46.79% 45.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 491 605
10th Percentile £315 £208 £263
25th Percentile £402 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -2.13% -1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 30 25
10th Percentile £17.57 £14.99 £12.02
25th Percentile £20.55 £24.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.25 £30.00 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +78.36% -25.24%
75th Percentile £51.06 £42.93 £38.75
90th Percentile £66.03 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +13 216 £459 -12.67% 16
Birmingham +25 71 £525 -6.67% 15
Warwickshire -28 22 £400 -11.11% 5
Coventry -19 13 £325 -23.53% 3
Staffordshire +4 11 £850 +1973.17% 8
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 64 (17.68%) SAS
2 36 (9.94%) Confluence
3 18 (4.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (3.59%) WebLogic
6 10 (2.76%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (5.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (4.97%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (4.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 17 (4.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.93%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.66%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (32.60%) AWS
2 49 (13.54%) Azure
3 19 (5.25%) OCI
4 15 (4.14%) PaaS
5 11 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.76%) GitHub
7 6 (1.66%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (1.66%) Serverless
8 5 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Firewall
2 5 (1.38%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.38%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.83%) SSL
3 3 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.30%) Pentaho
2 56 (15.47%) Oracle Reports
3 44 (12.15%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (11.60%) Oracle Database
5 28 (7.73%) MySQL
6 25 (6.91%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 14 (3.87%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (3.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 12 (3.31%) Ingres
11 11 (3.04%) Power BI
11 11 (3.04%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.93%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.66%) Metadata
16 5 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 72 (19.89%) JIRA
2 65 (17.96%) GitLab
3 50 (13.81%) Git
4 32 (8.84%) Zephyr
5 26 (7.18%) Postman
6 21 (5.80%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.31%) Selenium
8 11 (3.04%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.93%) Maven
10 6 (1.66%) JUnit
10 6 (1.66%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.10%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.10%) Gatling
11 4 (1.10%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.83%) Toad
13 1 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 81 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.44%) Public Sector
3 73 (20.17%) Finance
4 41 (11.33%) Local Government
5 18 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.49%) Legal
7 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.10%) Police
9 3 (0.83%) Advertising
9 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Billing
10 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 90 (24.86%) Data Engineer
2 32 (8.84%) Lead
3 29 (8.01%) Analyst
4 23 (6.35%) Senior
5 22 (6.08%) Architect
6 20 (5.52%) Tester
7 19 (5.25%) Finance Manager
8 18 (4.97%) QA Tester
9 17 (4.70%) DBA
9 17 (4.70%) Release Manager
10 16 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.42%) Test Analyst
11 14 (3.87%) Administrator
11 14 (3.87%) Developer
11 14 (3.87%) Finance Systems Manager
12 12 (3.31%) SAS Engineer
13 11 (3.04%) Project Manager
14 9 (2.49%) Senior Systems Accountant
14 9 (2.49%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.49%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (19.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (2.21%) Flash
3 7 (1.93%) ADO
3 7 (1.93%) REST
4 6 (1.66%) COM
4 6 (1.66%) JSON
4 6 (1.66%) ODBC
4 6 (1.66%) XML
5 5 (1.38%) Middleware
6 4 (1.10%) .NET
6 4 (1.10%) Kafka
6 4 (1.10%) Playwright
6 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.10%) React
6 4 (1.10%) SOAP
6 4 (1.10%) Spring
6 4 (1.10%) Web Services
7 3 (0.83%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.55%) pytest
9 1 (0.28%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.25%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (3.04%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.76%) Replication
4 9 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.49%) SCADA
5 8 (2.21%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.66%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.10%) IoT
8 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.10%) Robotics
9 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.71%) Unix
2 37 (10.22%) Linux
3 8 (2.21%) Windows
4 5 (1.38%) SUSE
5 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) AIX
6 1 (0.28%) HPUX
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.64%) Agile
2 119 (32.87%) ETL
3 88 (24.31%) Migration
4 85 (23.48%) Test Automation
5 59 (16.30%) CI/CD
5 59 (16.30%) Data Integration
6 56 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (14.64%) Data Modelling
9 52 (14.36%) Data Migration
9 52 (14.36%) ERP
10 45 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (12.15%) Analytics
11 44 (12.15%) Scrum
12 41 (11.33%) DevOps
13 40 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (10.50%) Validation
15 36 (9.94%) Test Scripting
16 35 (9.67%) Integration Testing
17 34 (9.39%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 179 (49.45%) SQL
2 42 (11.60%) PL/SQL
3 32 (8.84%) Java
4 26 (7.18%) Python
5 17 (4.70%) Shell Script
6 14 (3.87%) C
7 11 (3.04%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.76%) Bash
9 8 (2.21%) ProC
9 8 (2.21%) VB
10 7 (1.93%) VB6
11 5 (1.38%) Bicep
12 3 (0.83%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.83%) Perl
13 2 (0.55%) R
14 1 (0.28%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 207 (57.18%) Security Cleared
2 193 (53.31%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.46%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.76%) OCP
5 10 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (1.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.38%) Degree
8 4 (1.10%) ISEB
9 3 (0.83%) ACCA
9 3 (0.83%) CCAB
9 3 (0.83%) CIMA
10 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMP
11 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.77%) QA
2 27 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.21%) FATCA
3 8 (2.21%) SLA
4 6 (1.66%) GDPR
5 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.10%) WCAG
7 2 (0.55%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) GAAP
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (4.70%) Docker
2 8 (2.21%) GPFS
2 8 (2.21%) NFS
3 7 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.66%) vSphere
5 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.83%) HDFS
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.21%) Terraform
3 7 (1.93%) Grafana
4 6 (1.66%) vRealize
5 3 (0.83%) Ansible
5 3 (0.83%) VxRail
6 2 (0.55%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.55%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 95 (26.24%) Talend
2 57 (15.75%) Informatica
3 39 (10.77%) Denodo
4 35 (9.67%) Microsoft
5 21 (5.80%) SAP
6 14 (3.87%) IBM
7 11 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.76%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.76%) Sage
9 9 (2.49%) VMware
10 8 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.66%) Actian
11 6 (1.66%) Cisco
12 5 (1.38%) Databricks
12 5 (1.38%) MathWorks
12 5 (1.38%) Siemens
13 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.83%) webMethods
14 2 (0.55%) HP
14 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft