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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Oracle 118 122 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.44% 6.37% 5.87%
As % of the Vendors category 12.53% 13.71% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 81 70
10th Percentile £400 £413 £361
25th Percentile £450 £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £713 £630
90th Percentile £688 £763 £738
England median daily rate £510 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -7.27% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £34.55 £57.33
% change year-on-year +8.55% -39.74% +57.49%

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 942 890 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.45% 46.50% 50.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 590 647
10th Percentile £238 £250 £217
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 17
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £26.66 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +29.61%
75th Percentile £44.94 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle 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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 +17 47 £525 -3.67% 10
Warwickshire +8 30 £425 - 9
Birmingham -42 17 £602 -3.76% 11
Coventry +6 16 £425 -17.07% 7
Staffordshire +5 2 £41 - 11
Herefordshire - 2 £519 - 1
Solihull -5 1 £447 -
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (23.73%) SAS
2 16 (13.56%) WebLogic
3 14 (11.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (11.02%) Apache
5 10 (8.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 8 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.69%) FileNet
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.85%) Confluence
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.85%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (5.08%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (4.24%) SAP PM
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (1.69%) Primavera
7 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.66%) Azure
2 31 (26.27%) AWS
3 13 (11.02%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (6.78%) PaaS
5 6 (5.08%) OCI
5 6 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.24%) Collibra
6 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.39%) Serverless
8 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.69%) GitHub
9 2 (1.69%) SaaS
9 2 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.69%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) BGP
2 2 (1.69%) DMVPN
2 2 (1.69%) EIGRP
2 2 (1.69%) IPsec
2 2 (1.69%) OSPF
2 2 (1.69%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.69%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.85%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
3 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) Pentaho
2 17 (14.41%) Oracle Database
3 13 (11.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (9.32%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (8.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.24%) Delta Lake
6 5 (4.24%) GIS
6 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.39%) Power BI
7 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.54%) OLTP
9 2 (1.69%) DB2
9 2 (1.69%) EDMS
9 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (18.64%) JIRA
2 21 (17.80%) Git
3 18 (15.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.24%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Maven
5 2 (1.69%) TestPartner
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) Gatling
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 44 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.10%) Finance
4 14 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.54%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Electronics
7 2 (1.69%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (11.86%) Oracle Specialist
2 8 (6.78%) Senior
3 7 (5.93%) Monitoring Engineer
3 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (5.08%) Analyst
4 6 (5.08%) Project Manager
4 6 (5.08%) Release Manager
5 5 (4.24%) Architect
5 5 (4.24%) Consultant
5 5 (4.24%) Data Engineer
5 5 (4.24%) Oracle Project Manager
6 4 (3.39%) Azure Specialist
6 4 (3.39%) Lead
6 4 (3.39%) Performance Engineer
6 4 (3.39%) Software Licensing Manager
6 4 (3.39%) Software Licensing Specialist
6 4 (3.39%) Software Manager
6 4 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (2.54%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (2.54%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.24%) Kafka
3 4 (3.39%) Flash
3 4 (3.39%) Middleware
4 3 (2.54%) REST
4 3 (2.54%) SOAP
5 2 (1.69%) JSON
5 2 (1.69%) Spring
5 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.69%) Web Services
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) MACH
6 1 (0.85%) OAuth
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.85%) OpenID
6 1 (0.85%) Playwright
6 1 (0.85%) PySpark
6 1 (0.85%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) Swagger
6 1 (0.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.93%) SCADA
3 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.24%) IoT
4 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.39%) Replication
6 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.80%) Linux
2 17 (14.41%) Windows
3 15 (12.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.22%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (42.37%) Analytics
3 42 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (28.81%) DevOps
5 31 (26.27%) CI/CD
5 31 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (25.42%) Agile
6 30 (25.42%) Data Integration
7 27 (22.88%) ETL
7 27 (22.88%) Test Strategy
8 25 (21.19%) Migration
9 23 (19.49%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.49%) Scrum
9 23 (19.49%) Test Automation
10 22 (18.64%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (17.80%) Visualisation
12 20 (16.95%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (16.10%) Service Management
14 18 (15.25%) Data Analytics
14 18 (15.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.08%) SQL
2 11 (9.32%) Python
3 9 (7.63%) Java
3 9 (7.63%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.24%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.69%) Bicep
7 1 (0.85%) Bash
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) Korn
7 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) R
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.08%) Degree
4 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.54%) OCP
6 2 (1.69%) CCNP
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.85%) ACCA
7 1 (0.85%) CCNA
7 1 (0.85%) CIMA
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.85%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.02%) SLA
3 11 (9.32%) GDPR
4 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.54%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (21.19%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) GPFS
2 4 (3.39%) NFS
2 4 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.39%) vSphere
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (22.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.39%) vRealize
3 2 (1.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (1.69%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.69%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.25%) Cisco
2 18 (15.25%) Denodo
2 18 (15.25%) Talend
3 17 (14.41%) SAP
4 13 (11.02%) AppDynamics
4 13 (11.02%) Dynatrace
4 13 (11.02%) Splunk
5 10 (8.47%) IBM
6 5 (4.24%) Databricks
6 5 (4.24%) Informatica
6 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.39%) Adobe
7 4 (3.39%) VMware
8 3 (2.54%) Workday
9 2 (1.69%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.69%) Juniper
9 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.69%) UiPath