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 May 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 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Oracle 284 61 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.93% 4.41% 3.79%
As % of the Vendors category 20.03% 9.17% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 45 49
10th Percentile £351 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +3.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £588 £649 £701
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £47.54 - £18.60
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.35 - -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +37.20% +16.92% -58.40%

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 1,418 665 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.56% 48.08% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 426 511
10th Percentile £306 £184 £225
25th Percentile £400 £316 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +10.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £546 £594 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.67% +2.14% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 55
10th Percentile £20.12 £13.63 £11.09
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.40 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.76 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +81.23% +11.50% -14.19%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.69 £27.86
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -41.56%

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 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +16 166 £459 -10.00% 10
Birmingham 0 44 £488 -15.22% 19
Coventry -6 20 £402 - 1
Warwickshire -25 17 £525 +10.53% 5
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Staffordshire -4 1 £375 +26.90%
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 (23.59%) SAS
2 30 (10.56%) Confluence
3 12 (4.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.82%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (1.41%) Apache
7 4 (1.41%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.70%) Liferay
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.35%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.76%) Notepad++
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.52%) Oracle Payables
1 10 (3.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 10 (3.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 9 (3.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (2.11%) Oracle HRMS
4 4 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 89 (31.34%) AWS
2 32 (11.27%) Azure
3 11 (3.87%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.82%) OCI
5 6 (2.11%) PaaS
6 5 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.76%) Serverless
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.41%) GitHub
7 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.41%) SaaS
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) Firewall
2 5 (1.76%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.76%) VSAN
2 5 (1.76%) WinSCP
3 3 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.31%) Pentaho
2 46 (16.20%) Oracle Reports
3 41 (14.44%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (13.73%) Oracle Database
5 20 (7.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (4.93%) BusinessObjects
7 13 (4.58%) MySQL
8 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.87%) Power BI
10 9 (3.17%) Metadata
10 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.76%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 4 (1.41%) Ingres
13 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (20.77%) JIRA
2 52 (18.31%) GitLab
3 31 (10.92%) Git
4 27 (9.51%) Zephyr
5 22 (7.75%) Postman
6 18 (6.34%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.82%) Selenium
8 7 (2.46%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.41%) CA Gen
10 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.70%) JMeter
11 2 (0.70%) JUnit
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 62 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.90%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.44%) Finance
4 26 (9.15%) Local Government
5 19 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.87%) Legal
7 5 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 83 (29.23%) Data Engineer
2 28 (9.86%) Analyst
3 22 (7.75%) Architect
4 18 (6.34%) Release Manager
4 18 (6.34%) Senior
5 16 (5.63%) DBA
5 16 (5.63%) Lead
5 16 (5.63%) Tester
6 15 (5.28%) SAS Engineer
7 14 (4.93%) QA Tester
7 14 (4.93%) Storage Analyst
8 12 (4.23%) Test Analyst
9 11 (3.87%) Accountant
9 11 (3.87%) Oracle DBA
9 11 (3.87%) Senior Accountant
9 11 (3.87%) Senior Systems Accountant
9 11 (3.87%) Systems Accountant
10 10 (3.52%) Oracle Specialist
11 9 (3.17%) Developer
11 9 (3.17%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (5.99%) Flash
3 5 (1.76%) Spring
4 4 (1.41%) ADO
4 4 (1.41%) Middleware
4 4 (1.41%) REST
4 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.06%) JSON
5 3 (1.06%) Kafka
5 3 (1.06%) XML
6 2 (0.70%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.70%) COM
6 2 (0.70%) ODBC
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (0.70%) pytest
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.35%) Itk
7 1 (0.35%) JDBC
7 1 (0.35%) PySpark
7 1 (0.35%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.75%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (5.99%) Replication
3 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.11%) SCADA
7 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.41%) Robotics
8 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.06%) IoT
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.70%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.25%) Unix
2 35 (12.32%) Linux
3 6 (2.11%) Windows
4 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (36.62%) ETL
2 97 (34.15%) Agile
3 66 (23.24%) Test Automation
4 63 (22.18%) Migration
5 53 (18.66%) CI/CD
6 49 (17.25%) Data Integration
7 46 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.85%) Data Modelling
9 43 (15.14%) Scrum
10 40 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (12.68%) Data Migration
13 35 (12.32%) Analytics
14 33 (11.62%) DevOps
15 31 (10.92%) Test Scripting
16 30 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (9.86%) ERP
17 28 (9.86%) Validation
18 27 (9.51%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 150 (52.82%) SQL
2 33 (11.62%) PL/SQL
3 23 (8.10%) Python
4 16 (5.63%) Java
5 13 (4.58%) Shell Script
6 8 (2.82%) Bash
7 4 (1.41%) Bicep
7 4 (1.41%) Perl
7 4 (1.41%) VB
8 3 (1.06%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.70%) VB6
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) C++
10 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 175 (61.62%) Security Cleared
2 165 (58.10%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.69%) ISTQB
4 11 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.46%) Degree
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.41%) OCP
6 4 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.06%) PMP
7 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.86%) QA
2 19 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.17%) FATCA
4 7 (2.46%) SLA
5 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.35%) ITGC
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (5.99%) GPFS
1 17 (5.99%) NFS
2 14 (4.93%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (4.58%) vSphere
4 6 (2.11%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.06%) HDFS
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.58%) vRealize
3 7 (2.46%) Grafana
3 7 (2.46%) Terraform
4 5 (1.76%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.76%) VxRail
5 3 (1.06%) Ansible
6 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 85 (29.93%) Talend
2 57 (20.07%) Informatica
3 34 (11.97%) Denodo
4 23 (8.10%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.34%) IBM
6 17 (5.99%) ServiceNow
7 16 (5.63%) SAP
7 16 (5.63%) VMware
8 13 (4.58%) Cisco
9 9 (3.17%) Sage
10 8 (2.82%) Cloudera
11 6 (2.11%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.41%) Databricks
13 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.70%) Actian
14 2 (0.70%) HP
15 1 (0.35%) Citrix
15 1 (0.35%) JD Edwards
15 1 (0.35%) TIBCO
41 Oracle jobs in the West Midlands