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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 -13
Contract jobs citing Oracle 357 74 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.34% 4.57% 3.85%
As % of the Vendors category 22.84% 9.85% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 52 53
10th Percentile £350 £385 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -2.56% -9.72%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £588 £674 £698
England median daily rate £525 £521 £533
% change year-on-year +0.82% -2.21% -3.18%
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 £39.50 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% -2.60% -30.00%

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 1,563 751 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.29% 46.33% 45.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 473 623
10th Percentile £315 £208 £251
25th Percentile £400 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £648 £688
England median daily rate £510 £510 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 31 31
10th Percentile £18.27 £15.13 £11.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.83 £13.63
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +85.30% -28.04%
75th Percentile £51.25 £42.61 £38.13
90th Percentile £67.32 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.81 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +42.39% -6.85% -29.92%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +19 215 £458 -10.68% 16
Birmingham +21 68 £525 -6.67% 15
Warwickshire -26 22 £400 -11.11% 7
Coventry -20 12 £325 -23.53% 4
Staffordshire +2 9 £875 +2034.15% 11
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 67 (18.77%) SAS
2 36 (10.08%) Confluence
3 18 (5.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (3.64%) WebLogic
6 10 (2.80%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.68%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.28%) Apache
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.28%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (5.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 17 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 17 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
2 17 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (1.68%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (0.84%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 113 (31.65%) AWS
2 46 (12.89%) Azure
3 16 (4.48%) OCI
4 15 (4.20%) PaaS
5 11 (3.08%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.80%) GitHub
7 6 (1.68%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (1.68%) Serverless
8 5 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.96%) Firewall
2 5 (1.40%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.40%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.84%) SSL
3 3 (0.84%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.37%) Pentaho
2 56 (15.69%) Oracle Reports
3 45 (12.61%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (12.61%) Oracle Database
4 24 (6.72%) MySQL
4 24 (6.72%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (3.92%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (3.92%) Ingres
7 14 (3.92%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 13 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.08%) Power BI
10 10 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (2.24%) Metadata
12 8 (2.24%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 72 (20.17%) JIRA
2 65 (18.21%) GitLab
3 49 (13.73%) Git
4 32 (8.96%) Zephyr
5 26 (7.28%) Postman
6 21 (5.88%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.08%) Artifactory
8 10 (2.80%) Selenium
9 7 (1.96%) Maven
9 7 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.12%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.12%) JUnit
11 4 (1.12%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.84%) Toad
13 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.56%) Gatling
14 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
General
1 80 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.17%) Finance
2 72 (20.17%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.76%) Local Government
4 18 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.80%) Legal
6 7 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (0.84%) Advertising
7 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (0.84%) Police
8 2 (0.56%) Billing
8 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.28%) Banking
9 1 (0.28%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 93 (26.05%) Data Engineer
2 31 (8.68%) Lead
3 29 (8.12%) Analyst
4 24 (6.72%) Senior
5 21 (5.88%) Architect
6 20 (5.60%) Tester
7 19 (5.32%) Finance Manager
8 18 (5.04%) QA Tester
9 17 (4.76%) Release Manager
10 16 (4.48%) Test Analyst
11 15 (4.20%) DBA
12 14 (3.92%) Developer
12 14 (3.92%) Finance Systems Manager
13 13 (3.64%) SAS Engineer
13 13 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.36%) Administrator
15 11 (3.08%) Project Manager
16 10 (2.80%) Senior Accountant
16 10 (2.80%) Senior Systems Accountant
16 10 (2.80%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (18.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (2.24%) Flash
3 7 (1.96%) ADO
3 7 (1.96%) XML
4 6 (1.68%) COM
4 6 (1.68%) Middleware
4 6 (1.68%) ODBC
5 5 (1.40%) JSON
6 4 (1.12%) Kafka
6 4 (1.12%) REST
6 4 (1.12%) Spring
6 4 (1.12%) Web Services
7 3 (0.84%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.56%) .NET
8 2 (0.56%) Playwright
8 2 (0.56%) pytest
8 2 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.56%) React
9 1 (0.28%) JDBC
9 1 (0.28%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.32%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (3.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.80%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.52%) Replication
4 9 (2.52%) SCADA
5 7 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.12%) IoT
7 4 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.12%) Robotics
8 3 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.45%) Unix
2 37 (10.36%) Linux
3 8 (2.24%) Windows
4 5 (1.40%) SUSE
5 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) AIX
6 1 (0.28%) HPUX
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.29%) Agile
2 121 (33.89%) ETL
3 85 (23.81%) Migration
4 83 (23.25%) Test Automation
5 59 (16.53%) Data Integration
6 58 (16.25%) CI/CD
7 57 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 54 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 48 (13.45%) ERP
12 45 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (12.61%) Scrum
13 42 (11.76%) Analytics
14 41 (11.48%) DevOps
15 39 (10.92%) Validation
16 36 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (9.80%) Test Scripting
18 33 (9.24%) Integration Testing
18 33 (9.24%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (51.82%) SQL
2 42 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 31 (8.68%) Java
4 26 (7.28%) Python
5 18 (5.04%) Shell Script
6 14 (3.92%) C
7 10 (2.80%) Bash
8 8 (2.24%) ProC
8 8 (2.24%) VB
9 7 (1.96%) VB6
10 6 (1.68%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.40%) Bicep
12 3 (0.84%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.84%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.28%) R
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 198 (55.46%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.56%) ISTQB
4 14 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.24%) OCP
5 8 (2.24%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.40%) Degree
8 4 (1.12%) ISEB
9 3 (0.84%) ACCA
9 3 (0.84%) CCAB
9 3 (0.84%) CIMA
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.56%) PMP
11 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.20%) QA
2 27 (7.56%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.52%) FATCA
4 8 (2.24%) SLA
5 6 (1.68%) GDPR
6 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) PMO
7 2 (0.56%) WCAG
8 1 (0.28%) GAAP
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (4.20%) Docker
2 8 (2.24%) GPFS
2 8 (2.24%) NFS
3 7 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.68%) vSphere
5 3 (0.84%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.84%) HDFS
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.24%) Terraform
3 7 (1.96%) Grafana
4 6 (1.68%) vRealize
5 3 (0.84%) Ansible
5 3 (0.84%) VxRail
6 2 (0.56%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.56%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 99 (27.73%) Talend
2 60 (16.81%) Informatica
3 41 (11.48%) Denodo
4 35 (9.80%) Microsoft
5 21 (5.88%) SAP
6 14 (3.92%) IBM
7 11 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.80%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.80%) Sage
9 9 (2.52%) VMware
10 8 (2.24%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.96%) Actian
12 6 (1.68%) Cisco
13 5 (1.40%) Databricks
13 5 (1.40%) MathWorks
13 5 (1.40%) Siemens
14 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.84%) webMethods
15 2 (0.56%) HP
15 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft