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 August 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 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 333 107 112
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.67% 6.13% 5.89%
As % of the Vendors category 21.36% 12.71% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 75 74
10th Percentile £350 £391 £400
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £675
90th Percentile £588 £688 £759
England median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
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 £41.71 £37.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +11.23% +22.59% -47.79%

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 1,559 842 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.28% 48.25% 45.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 545 594
10th Percentile £322 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £638 £713
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 26 17
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.56 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.74 £27.66 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £41.90 £48.31 £45.50
90th Percentile £61.40 £50.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%

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 August 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 28 August 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 +2 180 £459 -12.57% 12
Birmingham +23 67 £525 -12.72% 62
Staffordshire +13 32 £625 +1424.39% 13
Warwickshire -17 19 £400 -5.88% 4
Coventry -20 14 £325 -23.53% 1
Dudley - 1 £375 -
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 48 (14.41%) SAS
2 26 (7.81%) Confluence
3 18 (5.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.00%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.80%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (1.80%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Notepad++
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (5.71%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (5.41%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (5.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 17 (5.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (2.10%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.80%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.90%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.30%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.33%) AWS
2 45 (13.51%) Azure
3 24 (7.21%) OCI
4 15 (4.50%) PaaS
5 10 (3.00%) GitHub
6 7 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.10%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.10%) Serverless
7 6 (1.80%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.10%) Firewall
2 5 (1.50%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.50%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.90%) SSL
4 2 (0.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.21%) Pentaho
2 41 (12.31%) Oracle Reports
3 38 (11.41%) Oracle Database
4 36 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (6.31%) MySQL
5 21 (6.31%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 16 (4.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 12 (3.60%) BusinessObjects
8 11 (3.30%) Ingres
9 10 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.70%) Oracle Exadata
10 9 (2.70%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.10%) Metadata
11 7 (2.10%) Power BI
11 7 (2.10%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (16.52%) GitLab
1 55 (16.52%) JIRA
2 41 (12.31%) Git
3 25 (7.51%) Zephyr
4 21 (6.31%) Postman
5 13 (3.90%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.30%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.30%) Selenium
7 7 (2.10%) Maven
8 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.50%) Gatling
8 5 (1.50%) JUnit
8 5 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.20%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.90%) Toad
11 1 (0.30%) NeoLoad
General
1 70 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.42%) Public Sector
3 67 (20.12%) Finance
4 35 (10.51%) Local Government
5 21 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.20%) Legal
7 4 (1.20%) Police
8 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.60%) Billing
9 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Advertising
10 1 (0.30%) Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.30%) Military
10 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (21.02%) Data Engineer
2 37 (11.11%) Lead
3 26 (7.81%) Analyst
4 20 (6.01%) Administrator
5 19 (5.71%) Finance Manager
5 19 (5.71%) Senior
6 18 (5.41%) Architect
6 18 (5.41%) Release Manager
7 15 (4.50%) Consultant
7 15 (4.50%) DBA
7 15 (4.50%) Oracle Consultant
8 14 (4.20%) Finance Systems Manager
8 14 (4.20%) Test Analyst
9 13 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.90%) Tester
10 12 (3.60%) Developer
10 12 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.60%) Oracle Project Manager
11 11 (3.30%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (25.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.70%) Terraform
3 6 (1.80%) Flash
3 6 (1.80%) REST
4 5 (1.50%) .NET
4 5 (1.50%) ADO
4 5 (1.50%) COM
4 5 (1.50%) JSON
4 5 (1.50%) Kafka
4 5 (1.50%) ODBC
4 5 (1.50%) Playwright
4 5 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.50%) React
4 5 (1.50%) SOAP
5 4 (1.20%) Middleware
5 4 (1.20%) Web Services
5 4 (1.20%) XML
6 2 (0.60%) Spring
7 1 (0.30%) OLE
7 1 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.11%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.00%) SCADA
4 8 (2.40%) Replication
5 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.50%) IoT
6 5 (1.50%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.30%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.91%) Unix
2 32 (9.61%) Linux
3 8 (2.40%) Windows
4 5 (1.50%) SUSE
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.60%) AIX
7 1 (0.30%) HPUX
7 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (33.03%) Agile
2 93 (27.93%) ETL
3 81 (24.32%) Migration
4 66 (19.82%) Test Automation
5 53 (15.92%) Data Integration
6 51 (15.32%) CI/CD
7 49 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 47 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (13.51%) ERP
10 44 (13.21%) Data Migration
11 39 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (11.41%) Analytics
12 38 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (10.21%) DevOps
15 32 (9.61%) Validation
16 30 (9.01%) Scrum
17 29 (8.71%) Integration Testing
18 28 (8.41%) End-to-End Testing
18 28 (8.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 147 (44.14%) SQL
2 34 (10.21%) PL/SQL
3 24 (7.21%) Java
4 17 (5.11%) Python
5 14 (4.20%) C
6 12 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.40%) ProC
8 6 (1.80%) Bash
8 6 (1.80%) VB
8 6 (1.80%) VB6
9 5 (1.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.60%) R
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 169 (50.75%) Security Cleared
2 156 (46.85%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.91%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.70%) OCP
5 9 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.20%) ISEB
8 3 (0.90%) ACCA
8 3 (0.90%) CCAB
8 3 (0.90%) CIMA
8 3 (0.90%) Degree
8 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.90%) PMP
9 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.61%) QA
2 24 (7.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.10%) GDPR
3 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.80%) FATCA
4 6 (1.80%) SLA
5 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) GRC
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (4.50%) Docker
2 6 (1.80%) GPFS
2 6 (1.80%) NFS
2 6 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.50%) vSphere
4 4 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.50%) vRealize
3 4 (1.20%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.60%) VxRail
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 72 (21.62%) Talend
2 42 (12.61%) Informatica
3 32 (9.61%) Microsoft
4 31 (9.31%) Denodo
5 21 (6.31%) SAP
6 12 (3.60%) IBM
7 9 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.40%) VMware
9 6 (1.80%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.80%) Sage
10 5 (1.50%) Actian
10 5 (1.50%) Cisco
10 5 (1.50%) Databricks
10 5 (1.50%) MathWorks
10 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.50%) Siemens
11 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.90%) webMethods
12 2 (0.60%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.30%) Sparx
100 Oracle jobs in the West Midlands