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 23 January 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
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 -39
Contract jobs citing Oracle 211 121 61
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.88% 7.62% 3.37%
As % of the Vendors category 17.22% 15.49% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 85 40
10th Percentile £402 £425 £375
25th Percentile £484 £493 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £561 £713 £625
90th Percentile £650 £771 £705
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -9.23% +116.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £30.40 £45.88
% change year-on-year +37.68% -33.74% -26.59%

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 1,225 781 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.54% 49.18% 46.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 500 505
10th Percentile £263 £208 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +7.84% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £678
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 40
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.48 £11.25
25th Percentile £16.80 £18.13 £14.83
Median hourly rate £23.50 £21.80 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% -3.11% +26.98%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.68 £26.62
90th Percentile £66.49 £35.00 £41.83
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -1 110 £525 +10.06% 17
Birmingham -35 33 £575 -8.00% 15
Coventry +5 29 £439 -53.84% 1
Warwickshire -7 19 £525 -16.00% 13
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 - 2
Herefordshire -19 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 74 (35.07%) SAS
2 22 (10.43%) WebLogic
3 17 (8.06%) Apache
4 8 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.95%) Liferay
8 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.84%) Primavera
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.95%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.49%) AWS
2 34 (16.11%) Azure
3 14 (6.64%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (4.27%) OCI
5 6 (2.84%) SaaS
6 5 (2.37%) OpenShift
6 5 (2.37%) PaaS
6 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.90%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.47%) GCP
9 1 (0.47%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) VSAN
1 2 (0.95%) Wireless
2 1 (0.47%) BGP
2 1 (0.47%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.47%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) IPsec
2 1 (0.47%) OSPF
2 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.33%) Pentaho
2 44 (20.85%) Oracle Database
3 42 (19.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (5.21%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 10 (4.74%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.84%) Metadata
7 6 (2.84%) MySQL
8 5 (2.37%) Power BI
9 4 (1.90%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.42%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.42%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.95%) EDMS
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.95%) QlikView
11 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (22.27%) Git
2 41 (19.43%) JIRA
3 38 (18.01%) Jenkins
4 18 (8.53%) GitLab
5 8 (3.79%) JUnit
5 8 (3.79%) Selenium
6 4 (1.90%) Toad
7 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.42%) Gatling
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.95%) Maven
8 2 (0.95%) Mockito
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.47%) Deequ
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 33 (15.64%) Finance
4 10 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.84%) Local Government
7 5 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Back Office
9 2 (0.95%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.95%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (14.69%) Data Engineer
2 23 (10.90%) Analyst
2 23 (10.90%) Release Manager
3 15 (7.11%) Storage Analyst
4 12 (5.69%) Architect
4 12 (5.69%) DBA
4 12 (5.69%) Oracle DBA
5 11 (5.21%) Consultant
5 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (5.21%) SAS Engineer
6 9 (4.27%) Lead
6 9 (4.27%) Senior
7 8 (3.79%) Monitoring Engineer
7 8 (3.79%) Project Manager
8 6 (2.84%) Change Manager
8 6 (2.84%) Data Architect
8 6 (2.84%) Oracle Project Manager
8 6 (2.84%) Test Specialist
9 5 (2.37%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (1.90%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (9.00%) Flash
3 10 (4.74%) REST
4 6 (2.84%) Spring
4 6 (2.84%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.37%) Playwright
5 5 (2.37%) pytest
5 5 (2.37%) XML
6 4 (1.90%) JSON
7 3 (1.42%) .NET
7 3 (1.42%) Middleware
7 3 (1.42%) React
8 2 (0.95%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.95%) GraalVM
8 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.95%) OpenID
8 2 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.95%) Spring Batch
8 2 (0.95%) WebCenter
8 2 (0.95%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (9.00%) Replication
2 6 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.47%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.47%) FMCG
6 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.01%) Linux
2 25 (11.85%) Unix
3 23 (10.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (35.55%) Agile
2 72 (34.12%) CI/CD
3 69 (32.70%) Analytics
4 57 (27.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (26.54%) Data Integration
6 52 (24.64%) DevOps
7 51 (24.17%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (22.75%) Scrum
9 47 (22.27%) Test Automation
10 45 (21.33%) ETL
10 45 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (18.96%) Data Modelling
12 39 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (18.01%) Migration
14 33 (15.64%) Deployment Automation
15 32 (15.17%) Data Virtualisation
16 31 (14.69%) Test Strategy
17 29 (13.74%) Data Analytics
18 27 (12.80%) Risk Assessment
18 27 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.76%) SQL
2 15 (7.11%) Java
3 11 (5.21%) Python
4 7 (3.32%) PL/SQL
5 6 (2.84%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.95%) Perl
7 2 (0.95%) VB
8 1 (0.47%) COBOL
8 1 (0.47%) Scala
8 1 (0.47%) VB6
Qualifications
1 105 (49.76%) Security Cleared
2 96 (45.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.37%) Degree
4 3 (1.42%) ACCA
4 3 (1.42%) CIMA
4 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.95%) ISEB
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.47%) CCNP
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.84%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) PMO
3 4 (1.90%) SLA
4 3 (1.42%) WCAG
5 2 (0.95%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (21.33%) Docker
2 19 (9.00%) GPFS
2 19 (9.00%) NFS
3 17 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.06%) vSphere
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (25.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.06%) vRealize
3 4 (1.90%) Grafana
3 4 (1.90%) Kibana
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.42%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.95%) Ansible
5 2 (0.95%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) VxRail
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 48 (22.75%) Talend
2 34 (16.11%) Denodo
3 31 (14.69%) Cisco
4 20 (9.48%) IBM
5 19 (9.00%) Dynatrace
5 19 (9.00%) SAP
5 19 (9.00%) ServiceNow
6 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
7 17 (8.06%) VMware
8 16 (7.58%) Splunk
9 14 (6.64%) AppDynamics
10 13 (6.16%) Informatica
11 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.95%) Ariba
12 2 (0.95%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.95%) webMethods
12 2 (0.95%) Workday
13 1 (0.47%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.47%) UiPath