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 3 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 38 46
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 345 74 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.26% 4.92% 3.48%
As % of the Vendors category 22.92% 10.45% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 52 47
10th Percentile £350 £385 £350
25th Percentile £412 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% - -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £610
90th Percentile £588 £638 £703
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.60
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.95 - -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +44.23% -54.22%

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 1,505 708 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.74% 47.11% 43.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 441 605
10th Percentile £313 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £313 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 30 51
10th Percentile £17.83 £14.99 £11.06
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.75 £13.63
Median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +50.38% -11.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £42.93 £28.75
90th Percentile £66.29 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%

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 3 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 3 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 +21 200 £458 +0.26% 18
Birmingham +22 69 £525 -12.50% 13
Warwickshire -29 21 £400 -11.11% 11
Coventry -15 14 £426 +0.24%
Staffordshire +2 7 £900 +204.57% 3
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 70 (20.29%) SAS
2 37 (10.72%) Confluence
3 18 (5.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.90%) Tuxedo
6 6 (1.74%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.29%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (5.22%) Oracle Receivables
2 16 (4.64%) Oracle General Ledger
2 16 (4.64%) Oracle Payables
2 16 (4.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (2.03%) Oracle Financials
4 6 (1.74%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.33%) AWS
2 45 (13.04%) Azure
3 13 (3.77%) PaaS
4 12 (3.48%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.19%) OCI
6 10 (2.90%) GitHub
7 6 (1.74%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (1.74%) Serverless
8 5 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.03%) Firewall
2 5 (1.45%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.45%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.16%) VSAN
4 3 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.68%) Pentaho
2 55 (15.94%) Oracle Reports
3 45 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (13.04%) Oracle Database
4 19 (5.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 19 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.93%) MySQL
6 15 (4.35%) Ingres
6 15 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.06%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (4.06%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 13 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.48%) Power BI
10 11 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.61%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.32%) Metadata
13 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 67 (19.42%) JIRA
2 65 (18.84%) GitLab
3 43 (12.46%) Git
4 32 (9.28%) Zephyr
5 26 (7.54%) Postman
6 21 (6.09%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.19%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.61%) Selenium
9 8 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.16%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.16%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.87%) JUnit
13 2 (0.58%) JMeter
14 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.29%) Gatling
14 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 78 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.87%) Public Sector
3 67 (19.42%) Finance
4 42 (12.17%) Local Government
5 19 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.19%) Legal
7 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.87%) Advertising
8 3 (0.87%) Billing
8 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Police
10 1 (0.29%) Banking
10 1 (0.29%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Law
10 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 94 (27.25%) Data Engineer
2 29 (8.41%) Lead
3 28 (8.12%) Analyst
4 25 (7.25%) Senior
5 23 (6.67%) Architect
6 20 (5.80%) Tester
7 18 (5.22%) Finance Manager
7 18 (5.22%) QA Tester
7 18 (5.22%) Release Manager
8 15 (4.35%) SAS Engineer
9 13 (3.77%) Developer
9 13 (3.77%) Finance Systems Manager
10 12 (3.48%) DBA
10 12 (3.48%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.48%) Test Analyst
11 11 (3.19%) Accountant
11 11 (3.19%) Senior Accountant
11 11 (3.19%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 11 (3.19%) Systems Accountant
12 10 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (3.19%) Flash
3 9 (2.61%) ADO
4 7 (2.03%) COM
4 7 (2.03%) ODBC
5 5 (1.45%) Spring
6 4 (1.16%) JSON
6 4 (1.16%) Kafka
6 4 (1.16%) Middleware
6 4 (1.16%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.16%) Web Services
7 3 (0.87%) REST
7 3 (0.87%) XML
8 2 (0.58%) ActiveX
8 2 (0.58%) pytest
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Axis
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.29%) Itk
9 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.64%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.19%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.19%) Replication
4 10 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.03%) SCADA
6 6 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.16%) IoT
8 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Robotics
9 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.58%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.29%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.36%) Unix
2 38 (11.01%) Linux
3 7 (2.03%) Windows
4 5 (1.45%) SUSE
5 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.29%) AIX
7 1 (0.29%) HPUX
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (35.36%) Agile
1 122 (35.36%) ETL
2 83 (24.06%) Migration
3 78 (22.61%) Test Automation
4 61 (17.68%) CI/CD
5 57 (16.52%) Data Integration
6 55 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (15.36%) Data Modelling
9 50 (14.49%) Data Migration
10 49 (14.20%) ERP
11 43 (12.46%) Scrum
12 42 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (12.17%) DevOps
13 41 (11.88%) Analytics
14 36 (10.43%) Validation
15 35 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (9.57%) Integration Testing
16 33 (9.57%) Test Scripting
17 32 (9.28%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (53.04%) SQL
2 43 (12.46%) PL/SQL
3 26 (7.54%) Python
4 19 (5.51%) Java
5 14 (4.06%) C
6 13 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.90%) Bash
7 10 (2.90%) VB
8 8 (2.32%) ProC
8 8 (2.32%) VB6
9 5 (1.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.16%) Perl
11 3 (0.87%) HiveQL
12 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (61.16%) Security Cleared
2 196 (56.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.96%) ISTQB
4 10 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.74%) Degree
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.16%) OCP
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.87%) ACCA
7 3 (0.87%) CCAB
7 3 (0.87%) CIMA
7 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.58%) PMP
8 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.30%) QA
2 26 (7.54%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.61%) FATCA
3 9 (2.61%) SLA
4 5 (1.45%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) PMO
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (4.06%) Docker
2 11 (3.19%) GPFS
2 11 (3.19%) NFS
3 10 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.61%) vSphere
5 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.87%) HDFS
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.61%) vRealize
3 8 (2.32%) Terraform
4 7 (2.03%) Grafana
5 4 (1.16%) VxRail
6 3 (0.87%) Ansible
7 2 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.58%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 100 (28.99%) Talend
2 64 (18.55%) Informatica
3 41 (11.88%) Denodo
4 29 (8.41%) Microsoft
5 20 (5.80%) SAP
6 17 (4.93%) IBM
7 14 (4.06%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.48%) VMware
9 10 (2.90%) Cloudera
10 9 (2.61%) Cisco
10 9 (2.61%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.61%) Sage
11 7 (2.03%) Actian
12 6 (1.74%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.45%) Databricks
13 5 (1.45%) MathWorks
13 5 (1.45%) Siemens
14 2 (0.58%) HP
15 1 (0.29%) Citrix
15 1 (0.29%) JD Edwards