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 25 December 2025, 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing Oracle 195 121 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.53% 7.21% 3.64%
As % of the Vendors category 16.05% 14.99% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 84 45
10th Percentile £385 £434 £350
25th Percentile £495 £498 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -7.06%
75th Percentile £578 £716 £638
90th Percentile £688 £772 £748
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% - -
75th Percentile £22.50 - -
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.60 £61.10
% change year-on-year +58.90% -61.37% -2.25%

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 1,215 807 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.13% 48.09% 50.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 528 569
10th Percentile £263 £209 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £582 £611 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £682
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 22
10th Percentile £14.74 £12.79 £17.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.68 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +4.89% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £31.46 £23.75
90th Percentile £56.00 £35.00 £34.50
England median hourly rate £23.60 £30.52 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.67% -33.48% +69.93%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 98 £525 +10.06% 28
Birmingham -35 33 £563 -10.00% 24
Warwickshire +7 27 £525 -13.51% 13
Coventry +1 22 £538 +13.16% 15
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 14
Worcestershire - 2 £738 - 9
Herefordshire -15 1 £513 -
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 67 (34.36%) SAS
2 19 (9.74%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.18%) Apache
4 8 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (3.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.03%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) FileNet
6 2 (1.03%) Liferay
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (3.08%) Primavera
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.03%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.10%) AWS
2 32 (16.41%) Azure
3 14 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (4.62%) OCI
5 7 (3.59%) PaaS
6 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.56%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.05%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.54%) SaaS
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.51%) GCP
11 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) Serverless
11 1 (0.51%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Wireless
2 1 (0.51%) BGP
2 1 (0.51%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.51%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) IPsec
2 1 (0.51%) OSPF
2 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.51%) VSAN
2 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.03%) Oracle Database
1 41 (21.03%) Pentaho
2 38 (19.49%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 11 (5.64%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (5.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.08%) Metadata
4 6 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.08%) MySQL
5 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.05%) Power BI
5 4 (2.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 3 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.54%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.03%) EDMS
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.03%) QlikView
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (22.56%) Git
2 41 (21.03%) JIRA
3 37 (18.97%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.21%) GitLab
5 8 (4.10%) JUnit
5 8 (4.10%) Selenium
6 4 (2.05%) Toad
7 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.54%) Gatling
8 2 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (1.03%) Mockito
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.03%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) Deequ
General
1 59 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Finance
3 32 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.56%) Local Government
6 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.54%) Back Office
7 3 (1.54%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.03%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.03%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (12.82%) Data Engineer
2 19 (9.74%) Analyst
2 19 (9.74%) Release Manager
3 12 (6.15%) Consultant
4 11 (5.64%) DBA
4 11 (5.64%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (4.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (4.62%) Oracle Specialist
5 9 (4.62%) Project Manager
5 9 (4.62%) Storage Analyst
6 8 (4.10%) Monitoring Engineer
6 8 (4.10%) SAS Engineer
7 7 (3.59%) Architect
7 7 (3.59%) Lead
7 7 (3.59%) Oracle Project Manager
7 7 (3.59%) Senior
8 6 (3.08%) Change Manager
8 6 (3.08%) Data Architect
8 6 (3.08%) Test Analyst
8 6 (3.08%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (6.67%) Flash
3 9 (4.62%) REST
4 6 (3.08%) Spring
4 6 (3.08%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.56%) Middleware
5 5 (2.56%) Playwright
5 5 (2.56%) pytest
5 5 (2.56%) XML
6 4 (2.05%) JSON
7 3 (1.54%) .NET
7 3 (1.54%) React
8 2 (1.03%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.03%) GraalVM
8 2 (1.03%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.03%) OpenID
8 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.03%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.03%) WebCenter
8 2 (1.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 13 (6.67%) Replication
2 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.54%) SCADA
4 3 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.51%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.51%) FMCG
6 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.36%) Linux
2 22 (11.28%) Windows
3 19 (9.74%) Unix
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) Agile
2 68 (34.87%) Analytics
3 65 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 51 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (26.15%) Data Integration
5 50 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (25.64%) DevOps
6 49 (25.13%) Scrum
7 45 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 41 (21.03%) ETL
9 38 (19.49%) Data Modelling
9 38 (19.49%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (17.44%) Migration
11 32 (16.41%) Deployment Automation
11 32 (16.41%) Test Strategy
12 31 (15.90%) Data Virtualisation
13 28 (14.36%) Data Analytics
14 25 (12.82%) Risk Assessment
14 25 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (38.46%) SQL
2 16 (8.21%) Java
3 11 (5.64%) Python
4 6 (3.08%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.51%) COBOL
7 1 (0.51%) Perl
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (45.64%) Security Cleared
2 80 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.56%) Degree
4 3 (1.54%) ACCA
4 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.54%) CIMA
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.03%) ISEB
5 2 (1.03%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CCNP
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.56%) PMO
4 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.05%) SLA
5 3 (1.54%) WCAG
6 2 (1.03%) ITGC
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (23.08%) Docker
2 13 (6.67%) GPFS
2 13 (6.67%) NFS
3 12 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.15%) vSphere
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (25.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.15%) vRealize
3 4 (2.05%) Grafana
3 4 (2.05%) Kibana
3 4 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.54%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.03%) Terraform
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (21.54%) Talend
2 33 (16.92%) Denodo
3 26 (13.33%) Cisco
4 21 (10.77%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.72%) IBM
6 16 (8.21%) Dynatrace
6 16 (8.21%) SAP
6 16 (8.21%) Splunk
7 14 (7.18%) AppDynamics
8 13 (6.67%) ServiceNow
9 12 (6.15%) VMware
10 8 (4.10%) Informatica
11 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.05%) Adobe
13 3 (1.54%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.03%) Ariba
14 2 (1.03%) PagerDuty
14 2 (1.03%) webMethods
14 2 (1.03%) Workday
15 1 (0.51%) Remedy