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 6 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 22 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 -37
Contract jobs citing Oracle 202 104 63
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.05% 6.86% 3.32%
As % of the Vendors category 16.30% 13.79% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 72 43
10th Percentile £384 £414 £375
25th Percentile £450 £477 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £560 £661 £625
90th Percentile £624 £775 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.55% +3.68%
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 £63.47 £30.59 £45.88
% change year-on-year +107.49% -33.33% -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 1,239 754 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 49.36% 49.77% 45.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 491 520
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +7.79% -2.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 48
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.09 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.74 £18.13 £14.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +10.50% +26.98%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.57 £26.62
90th Percentile £52.50 £39.88 £41.98
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.35% -6.12%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +1 100 £520 +9.01% 15
Birmingham -31 32 £488 -15.22% 19
Coventry +6 28 £439 -53.84% 2
Warwickshire -12 18 £525 -14.77% 8
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 -
Herefordshire -20 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 62 (30.69%) SAS
2 14 (6.93%) WebLogic
3 9 (4.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.98%) Confluence
5 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.99%) Liferay
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Geronimo
7 1 (0.50%) Apache ServiceMix
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.97%) Primavera
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.99%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.99%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.27%) AWS
2 21 (10.40%) Azure
3 9 (4.46%) OCI
4 6 (2.97%) OpenShift
4 6 (2.97%) SaaS
5 5 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.98%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (1.49%) PaaS
8 2 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) GCP
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.50%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) VSAN
1 2 (0.99%) Wireless
2 1 (0.50%) BGP
2 1 (0.50%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) IPsec
2 1 (0.50%) OSPF
2 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (23.27%) Oracle Database
2 40 (19.80%) Pentaho
3 39 (19.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 12 (5.94%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (4.46%) MySQL
6 8 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.96%) Metadata
6 8 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.48%) Power BI
8 5 (2.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.98%) Ingres
9 4 (1.98%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.49%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.99%) EDMS
11 2 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.99%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 41 (20.30%) Git
2 33 (16.34%) JIRA
3 30 (14.85%) Jenkins
4 19 (9.41%) GitLab
5 9 (4.46%) JUnit
5 9 (4.46%) Selenium
6 4 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.98%) Toad
7 3 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.49%) Gatling
7 3 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.99%) JMeter
8 2 (0.99%) Maven
8 2 (0.99%) Mockito
8 2 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.50%) Deequ
9 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.34%) Finance
3 29 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Local Government
6 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.49%) Back Office
7 3 (1.49%) Legal
8 2 (0.99%) Aeronautics
8 2 (0.99%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (16.83%) Data Engineer
2 24 (11.88%) Analyst
3 20 (9.90%) Release Manager
4 16 (7.92%) Storage Analyst
5 14 (6.93%) Architect
6 12 (5.94%) DBA
6 12 (5.94%) Oracle DBA
6 12 (5.94%) SAS Engineer
7 11 (5.45%) Consultant
7 11 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (5.45%) Lead
8 9 (4.46%) Senior
9 8 (3.96%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.47%) Test Specialist
11 6 (2.97%) Accountant
11 6 (2.97%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.97%) Denodo Engineer
11 6 (2.97%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.48%) Monitoring Engineer
12 5 (2.48%) Senior Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.90%) Flash
2 19 (9.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (5.45%) REST
4 8 (3.96%) Spring
4 8 (3.96%) XML
5 7 (3.47%) JSON
5 7 (3.47%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.97%) pytest
7 5 (2.48%) Playwright
8 4 (1.98%) ADO
8 4 (1.98%) Middleware
9 3 (1.49%) .NET
9 3 (1.49%) JDBC
9 3 (1.49%) React
10 2 (0.99%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.99%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.99%) OpenID
10 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.99%) Spring Batch
10 2 (0.99%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.90%) Linux Command Line
1 20 (9.90%) Replication
2 5 (2.48%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (2.48%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.50%) FMCG
6 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.84%) Linux
2 21 (10.40%) Unix
3 14 (6.93%) Windows
4 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.64%) Agile
2 61 (30.20%) CI/CD
3 46 (22.77%) Analytics
4 43 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (21.29%) Scrum
5 42 (20.79%) Data Integration
5 42 (20.79%) ETL
6 39 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (18.81%) DevOps
8 36 (17.82%) Test Automation
9 33 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (15.84%) Data Modelling
10 32 (15.84%) Migration
11 30 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (13.37%) Enterprise Architecture
13 26 (12.87%) Integration Patterns
13 26 (12.87%) Validation
14 25 (12.38%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (11.39%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 80 (39.60%) SQL
2 23 (11.39%) Java
3 12 (5.94%) Python
4 10 (4.95%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.96%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.98%) VB
7 3 (1.49%) Perl
8 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) VB6
9 1 (0.50%) COBOL
9 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (47.03%) Security Cleared
2 88 (43.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.97%) Degree
5 5 (2.48%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.49%) ACCA
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.49%) CIMA
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.99%) ISEB
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.46%) QA
3 5 (2.48%) SLA
4 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.98%) PMO
5 3 (1.49%) FATCA
5 3 (1.49%) WCAG
6 2 (0.99%) ITGC
System Software
1 33 (16.34%) Docker
2 20 (9.90%) GPFS
2 20 (9.90%) NFS
3 17 (8.42%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (8.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (8.42%) vSphere
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (21.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.42%) vRealize
3 4 (1.98%) Grafana
3 4 (1.98%) Kibana
3 4 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.49%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.99%) Terraform
5 2 (0.99%) VxRail
6 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 44 (21.78%) Talend
2 27 (13.37%) Denodo
3 22 (10.89%) Cisco
4 20 (9.90%) IBM
4 20 (9.90%) ServiceNow
5 18 (8.91%) SAP
6 17 (8.42%) Informatica
6 17 (8.42%) VMware
7 13 (6.44%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.95%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.47%) Splunk
10 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.48%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.49%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.99%) Ariba
13 2 (0.99%) HP
13 2 (0.99%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.99%) Remedy
13 2 (0.99%) Sage
13 2 (0.99%) webMethods