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 28 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 35 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing Oracle 265 66 58
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.16% 5.00% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 19.22% 10.36% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 50 40
10th Percentile £350 £369 £350
25th Percentile £413 £434 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £502 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +0.30% -7.41%
75th Percentile £543 £600 £625
90th Percentile £645 £669 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £22.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £38.56 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.25% +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 1,379 637 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.68% 48.29% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 431 547
10th Percentile £304 £200 £253
25th Percentile £400 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £689 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 24 56
10th Percentile £16.09 £12.25 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.40 £13.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.50 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% +1.43% +7.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +5 137 £481 +0.84% 22
Birmingham +1 42 £475 -9.52% 19
Coventry +1 26 £475 - 2
Warwickshire -8 22 £525 -16.00% 7
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 -
Staffordshire -6 1 £375 +26.90% 1
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 77 (29.06%) SAS
2 13 (4.91%) Confluence
3 12 (4.53%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.89%) Apache
6 4 (1.51%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 4 (1.51%) Tuxedo
7 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.75%) Liferay
9 1 (0.38%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.38%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.64%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.51%) Primavera
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.91%) AWS
2 29 (10.94%) Azure
3 13 (4.91%) OCI
4 9 (3.40%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.64%) OpenShift
6 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.89%) SaaS
7 4 (1.51%) GitHub
7 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.51%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.13%) PaaS
8 3 (1.13%) Serverless
9 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) Firewall
2 3 (1.13%) SSL
2 3 (1.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (20.75%) Pentaho
2 53 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 36 (13.58%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 35 (13.21%) Oracle Reports
5 21 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (6.79%) MySQL
7 10 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.40%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.40%) Power BI
8 9 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.02%) Metadata
9 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.51%) IDMS
10 4 (1.51%) Ingres
10 4 (1.51%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (1.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 3 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (19.25%) JIRA
2 50 (18.87%) Git
3 33 (12.45%) Jenkins
4 29 (10.94%) GitLab
5 13 (4.91%) Zephyr
6 11 (4.15%) Postman
7 9 (3.40%) JUnit
7 9 (3.40%) Selenium
8 5 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.51%) CA Gen
9 4 (1.51%) Toad
10 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.75%) Gatling
11 2 (0.75%) JMeter
11 2 (0.75%) Maven
11 2 (0.75%) Mockito
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
General
1 70 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.36%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.72%) Finance
4 20 (7.55%) Local Government
5 16 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.77%) Legal
7 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.51%) Advertising
9 3 (1.13%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (23.02%) Data Engineer
2 29 (10.94%) Analyst
3 22 (8.30%) Architect
4 19 (7.17%) Release Manager
5 18 (6.79%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (6.42%) DBA
7 15 (5.66%) Lead
7 15 (5.66%) Senior
8 13 (4.91%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (4.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (4.53%) SAS Engineer
10 11 (4.15%) Accountant
10 11 (4.15%) Consultant
10 11 (4.15%) Tester
11 10 (3.77%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.77%) QA Tester
11 10 (3.77%) Senior Accountant
11 10 (3.77%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 10 (3.77%) Systems Accountant
12 8 (3.02%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (6.79%) Flash
3 10 (3.77%) Spring
4 9 (3.40%) REST
4 9 (3.40%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.02%) XML
6 7 (2.64%) pytest
7 6 (2.26%) JSON
8 4 (1.51%) ADO
8 4 (1.51%) Middleware
8 4 (1.51%) Playwright
9 3 (1.13%) JDBC
9 3 (1.13%) Kafka
10 2 (0.75%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.75%) OpenID
10 2 (0.75%) React
10 2 (0.75%) Spring Batch
10 2 (0.75%) WebCenter
10 2 (0.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.79%) Linux Command Line
1 18 (6.79%) Replication
2 12 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.64%) SCADA
5 6 (2.26%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.51%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.51%) Robotics
7 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.13%) IoT
7 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.70%) Linux
2 27 (10.19%) Unix
3 13 (4.91%) Windows
4 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.47%) Agile
2 77 (29.06%) ETL
3 70 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 58 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (20.38%) Test Automation
6 52 (19.62%) Scrum
7 51 (19.25%) Data Integration
8 49 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (17.74%) Analytics
10 43 (16.23%) DevOps
10 43 (16.23%) Migration
10 43 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (15.47%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.32%) ERP
15 28 (10.57%) Validation
16 27 (10.19%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (10.19%) Test Scripting
17 26 (9.81%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.91%) SQL
2 27 (10.19%) Java
3 21 (7.92%) Python
4 18 (6.79%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.53%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.26%) Bash
7 5 (1.89%) Perl
8 4 (1.51%) Bicep
8 4 (1.51%) VB
9 3 (1.13%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.75%) VB6
11 1 (0.38%) COBOL
11 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (53.58%) Security Cleared
2 134 (50.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.91%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.64%) Degree
6 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.51%) OCP
8 4 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.13%) PMP
9 3 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.75%) ISEB
10 2 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.38%) ACCA
11 1 (0.38%) CIMA
11 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.92%) QA
3 7 (2.64%) SLA
4 5 (1.89%) PMO
5 3 (1.13%) FATCA
5 3 (1.13%) GDPR
5 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) ITGC
6 2 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) GAAP
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (11.70%) Docker
2 18 (6.79%) GPFS
2 18 (6.79%) NFS
2 18 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (5.66%) vSphere
4 5 (1.89%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.13%) HDFS
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.66%) vRealize
3 7 (2.64%) Grafana
4 6 (2.26%) Terraform
5 5 (1.89%) Ansible
6 4 (1.51%) Kibana
6 4 (1.51%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.13%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.13%) VxRail
8 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 69 (26.04%) Talend
2 40 (15.09%) Informatica
3 32 (12.08%) Denodo
4 23 (8.68%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.92%) SAP
6 18 (6.79%) IBM
6 18 (6.79%) ServiceNow
6 18 (6.79%) VMware
7 16 (6.04%) Cisco
8 7 (2.64%) Sage
9 6 (2.26%) Cloudera
9 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.51%) Databricks
12 3 (1.13%) Splunk
13 2 (0.75%) Actian
13 2 (0.75%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.75%) Remedy
13 2 (0.75%) webMethods