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 21 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 348 105 109
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.13% 6.13% 5.72%
As % of the Vendors category 22.34% 12.84% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 74 76
10th Percentile £350 £390 £400
25th Percentile £400 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £522 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -5.14% +1.85%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £675
90th Percentile £585 £688 £756
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -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 £41.36 £37.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year +10.28% +28.01% -50.00%

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 1,558 818 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.36% 47.78% 45.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,039 527 602
10th Percentile £314 £231 £263
25th Percentile £401 £360 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £656 £638 £712
England median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 28 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.72 £13.93
25th Percentile £19.34 £24.92 £15.17
Median hourly rate £25.30 £30.00 £28.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% +4.12% +28.06%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.94 £50.31
90th Percentile £63.05 £50.00 £57.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 21 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 21 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 +5 197 £459 -12.57% 9
Birmingham +25 67 £525 -13.62% 14
Staffordshire +11 25 £850 +1973.17% 10
Warwickshire -24 20 £400 -5.88% 1
Coventry -19 15 £325 -23.53%
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 52 (14.94%) SAS
2 33 (9.48%) Confluence
3 18 (5.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.87%) WebLogic
6 8 (2.30%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Notepad++
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (5.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (5.17%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (4.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 17 (4.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.72%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (30.75%) AWS
2 46 (13.22%) Azure
3 23 (6.61%) OCI
4 15 (4.31%) PaaS
5 11 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.87%) GitHub
7 7 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.01%) Serverless
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) Firewall
2 5 (1.44%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.44%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.86%) SSL
3 3 (0.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.94%) Oracle Reports
2 48 (13.79%) Pentaho
3 47 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (10.63%) Oracle Database
5 25 (7.18%) MySQL
6 22 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 20 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.60%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 16 (4.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 15 (4.31%) BusinessObjects
10 11 (3.16%) Ingres
10 11 (3.16%) Power BI
11 10 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.30%) Oracle Exadata
13 8 (2.30%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.01%) Metadata
15 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.72%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (19.83%) JIRA
2 61 (17.53%) GitLab
3 46 (13.22%) Git
4 34 (9.77%) Zephyr
5 29 (8.33%) Postman
6 16 (4.60%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.16%) Artifactory
7 11 (3.16%) Selenium
8 7 (2.01%) Maven
9 5 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.44%) Gatling
9 5 (1.44%) JUnit
9 5 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.15%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.86%) Toad
12 2 (0.57%) CA Gen
13 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 74 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.40%) Finance
3 69 (19.83%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.63%) Local Government
5 21 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.44%) Legal
8 4 (1.15%) Police
9 3 (0.86%) Advertising
9 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Billing
10 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (21.84%) Data Engineer
2 35 (10.06%) Lead
3 30 (8.62%) Analyst
4 20 (5.75%) Tester
5 19 (5.46%) Finance Manager
5 19 (5.46%) Senior
6 18 (5.17%) Architect
6 18 (5.17%) Release Manager
7 17 (4.89%) QA Tester
7 17 (4.89%) Test Analyst
8 15 (4.31%) DBA
9 14 (4.02%) Administrator
9 14 (4.02%) Finance Systems Manager
9 14 (4.02%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.74%) Developer
10 13 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.45%) Consultant
11 12 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
11 12 (3.45%) Oracle Project Manager
12 11 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (23.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (2.30%) Terraform
3 7 (2.01%) Flash
4 6 (1.72%) REST
5 5 (1.44%) .NET
5 5 (1.44%) ADO
5 5 (1.44%) COM
5 5 (1.44%) JSON
5 5 (1.44%) Kafka
5 5 (1.44%) ODBC
5 5 (1.44%) Playwright
5 5 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.44%) React
5 5 (1.44%) SOAP
6 4 (1.15%) Middleware
6 4 (1.15%) Web Services
6 4 (1.15%) XML
7 2 (0.57%) PySpark
7 2 (0.57%) Spring
8 1 (0.29%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.87%) SCADA
4 9 (2.59%) Replication
5 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.44%) IoT
5 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.44%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.57%) Robotics
9 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.29%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.21%) Unix
2 32 (9.20%) Linux
3 8 (2.30%) Windows
4 5 (1.44%) SUSE
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) HPUX
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (35.06%) Agile
2 109 (31.32%) ETL
3 90 (25.86%) Migration
4 79 (22.70%) Test Automation
5 55 (15.80%) CI/CD
6 53 (15.23%) Data Migration
7 52 (14.94%) Data Integration
8 50 (14.37%) Data Modelling
9 48 (13.79%) ERP
10 47 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (12.36%) Analytics
12 42 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
14 37 (10.63%) DevOps
14 37 (10.63%) Integration Testing
15 36 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
15 36 (10.34%) Scrum
15 36 (10.34%) Test Scripting
16 35 (10.06%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 162 (46.55%) SQL
2 39 (11.21%) PL/SQL
3 27 (7.76%) Java
4 21 (6.03%) Python
5 14 (4.02%) C
6 12 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.30%) ProC
8 6 (1.72%) Bash
8 6 (1.72%) VB
8 6 (1.72%) VB6
9 5 (1.44%) Bicep
10 3 (0.86%) HiveQL
11 2 (0.57%) R
11 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 186 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 173 (49.71%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.05%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.30%) OCP
5 8 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.15%) Degree
6 4 (1.15%) ISEB
7 3 (0.86%) ACCA
7 3 (0.86%) CCAB
7 3 (0.86%) CIMA
7 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.86%) PMP
8 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.49%) QA
2 24 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.01%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) FATCA
4 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.72%) SLA
5 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.44%) WCAG
6 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (4.31%) Docker
2 7 (2.01%) GPFS
2 7 (2.01%) NFS
2 7 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (1.72%) vSphere
4 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.86%) HDFS
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.01%) Grafana
3 6 (1.72%) vRealize
4 3 (0.86%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) VxRail
5 2 (0.57%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 80 (22.99%) Talend
2 48 (13.79%) Informatica
3 34 (9.77%) Denodo
4 32 (9.20%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.32%) SAP
6 13 (3.74%) IBM
7 10 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.59%) VMware
9 8 (2.30%) Sage
10 6 (1.72%) Cisco
10 6 (1.72%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.72%) Databricks
11 5 (1.44%) Actian
11 5 (1.44%) MathWorks
11 5 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.44%) Siemens
12 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.86%) webMethods
13 2 (0.57%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft