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 14 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
14 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 362 111 95
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.42% 6.49% 5.07%
As % of the Vendors category 22.78% 13.50% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 81 65
10th Percentile £350 £385 £378
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -1.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £650
90th Percentile £588 £688 £745
England median daily rate £525 £520 £543
% change year-on-year +0.96% -4.15% -1.36%
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 £39.03 £37.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year +4.07% +28.01% -48.90%

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 1,589 822 866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.75% 48.04% 46.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 528 604
10th Percentile £316 £230 £263
25th Percentile £401 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - -
75th Percentile £549 £575 £613
90th Percentile £650 £638 £699
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 29 19
10th Percentile £14.53 £14.86 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.34 £24.66 £15.11
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +14.83% +16.11%
75th Percentile £48.25 £43.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £63.60 £50.00 £58.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%

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 14 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 14 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 +5 217 £450 -14.29% 14
Birmingham +21 69 £525 -13.62% 22
Warwickshire -20 21 £400 -11.11% 3
Coventry -20 15 £325 -23.53%
Staffordshire +5 12 £850 +1973.17% 17
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 63 (17.40%) SAS
2 34 (9.39%) Confluence
3 18 (4.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (3.04%) WebLogic
6 10 (2.76%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Notepad++
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (5.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (4.97%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (4.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 17 (4.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.93%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.66%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (32.60%) AWS
2 46 (12.71%) Azure
3 21 (5.80%) OCI
4 15 (4.14%) PaaS
5 11 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.76%) GitHub
7 7 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (1.93%) Serverless
8 6 (1.66%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Firewall
2 5 (1.38%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.38%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.83%) SSL
3 3 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.57%) Pentaho
2 56 (15.47%) Oracle Reports
3 50 (13.81%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.50%) Oracle Database
5 27 (7.46%) MySQL
6 24 (6.63%) SQL Server
7 22 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 15 (4.14%) BusinessObjects
9 15 (4.14%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 11 (3.04%) Ingres
10 11 (3.04%) Power BI
11 10 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (2.21%) Oracle Exadata
13 8 (2.21%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.93%) Metadata
15 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 78 (21.55%) JIRA
2 64 (17.68%) GitLab
3 56 (15.47%) Git
4 37 (10.22%) Zephyr
5 32 (8.84%) Postman
6 22 (6.08%) Jenkins
7 12 (3.31%) Selenium
8 11 (3.04%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.93%) Maven
10 6 (1.66%) JUnit
11 5 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.38%) Gatling
11 5 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.10%) CA Gen
12 4 (1.10%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.83%) Toad
14 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
General
1 81 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 75 (20.72%) Public Sector
3 70 (19.34%) Finance
4 39 (10.77%) Local Government
5 21 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.93%) Legal
7 4 (1.10%) Police
8 3 (0.83%) Advertising
8 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.55%) Billing
9 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.28%) Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (24.86%) Data Engineer
2 32 (8.84%) Lead
3 30 (8.29%) Analyst
4 23 (6.35%) Tester
5 20 (5.52%) QA Tester
5 20 (5.52%) Senior
6 19 (5.25%) Finance Manager
7 18 (4.97%) Architect
8 17 (4.70%) DBA
8 17 (4.70%) Release Manager
8 17 (4.70%) Test Analyst
9 14 (3.87%) Administrator
9 14 (3.87%) Developer
9 14 (3.87%) Finance Systems Manager
10 13 (3.59%) SAS Engineer
10 13 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.04%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.49%) Oracle Project Manager
12 9 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (19.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.93%) Flash
3 6 (1.66%) REST
4 5 (1.38%) .NET
4 5 (1.38%) ADO
4 5 (1.38%) COM
4 5 (1.38%) JSON
4 5 (1.38%) Kafka
4 5 (1.38%) ODBC
4 5 (1.38%) Playwright
4 5 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.38%) React
4 5 (1.38%) SOAP
5 4 (1.10%) Middleware
5 4 (1.10%) Web Services
5 4 (1.10%) XML
6 3 (0.83%) Spring
7 2 (0.55%) PySpark
8 1 (0.28%) OLE
8 1 (0.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.97%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.31%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.76%) SCADA
5 9 (2.49%) Replication
6 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.38%) IoT
7 5 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.38%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.10%) Robotics
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.88%) Unix
2 33 (9.12%) Linux
3 8 (2.21%) Windows
4 5 (1.38%) SUSE
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) AIX
6 1 (0.28%) HPUX
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (36.46%) Agile
2 125 (34.53%) ETL
3 94 (25.97%) Migration
4 89 (24.59%) Test Automation
5 61 (16.85%) Data Integration
6 60 (16.57%) CI/CD
7 58 (16.02%) Data Modelling
8 57 (15.75%) Data Migration
9 55 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (14.36%) ERP
11 51 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (13.26%) Analytics
13 47 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (12.15%) Scrum
15 42 (11.60%) DevOps
16 41 (11.33%) Integration Testing
17 39 (10.77%) Test Scripting
18 38 (10.50%) End-to-End Testing
19 37 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 37 (10.22%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.55%) SQL
2 42 (11.60%) PL/SQL
3 28 (7.73%) Java
4 25 (6.91%) Python
5 14 (3.87%) C
6 13 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.76%) Bash
9 8 (2.21%) ProC
10 6 (1.66%) Bicep
10 6 (1.66%) VB
10 6 (1.66%) VB6
11 3 (0.83%) HiveQL
12 2 (0.55%) R
12 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 203 (56.08%) Security Cleared
2 189 (52.21%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.56%) ISTQB
4 14 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.76%) OCP
5 10 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (2.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.10%) Degree
7 4 (1.10%) ISEB
8 3 (0.83%) ACCA
8 3 (0.83%) CCAB
8 3 (0.83%) CIMA
9 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.60%) QA
2 28 (7.73%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.93%) GDPR
3 7 (1.93%) SLA
4 6 (1.66%) FATCA
4 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.38%) WCAG
6 2 (0.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (5.52%) Docker
2 7 (1.93%) GPFS
2 7 (1.93%) NFS
2 7 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (1.66%) vSphere
4 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.83%) HDFS
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.49%) Terraform
3 7 (1.93%) Grafana
4 6 (1.66%) vRealize
5 3 (0.83%) Ansible
5 3 (0.83%) VxRail
6 2 (0.55%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 93 (25.69%) Talend
2 58 (16.02%) Informatica
3 38 (10.50%) Denodo
4 35 (9.67%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.08%) SAP
6 13 (3.59%) IBM
7 10 (2.76%) Cloudera
7 10 (2.76%) Sage
7 10 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.49%) VMware
9 6 (1.66%) Cisco
9 6 (1.66%) Databricks
9 6 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.38%) Actian
10 5 (1.38%) MathWorks
10 5 (1.38%) Siemens
11 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.83%) webMethods
12 2 (0.55%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft
64 Oracle jobs in the West Midlands