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 2 March 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
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Oracle 252 81 64
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.27% 5.88% 3.34%
As % of the Vendors category 19.00% 11.64% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 58 44
10th Percentile £358 £394 £358
25th Percentile £413 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £557 £638 £625
90th Percentile £645 £741 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -9.23% +116.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.21 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% +103.85% -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 1,326 696 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.79% 50.51% 45.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 460 548
10th Percentile £270 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 55
10th Percentile £15.36 £13.14 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.13 £13.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.25 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.52% +12.58%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.95 £26.74
90th Percentile £52.00 £35.00 £42.20
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.81% +21.15% -23.62%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +1 135 £481 +0.84% 29
Birmingham -14 36 £500 -14.89% 19
Coventry +2 26 £402 - 3
Warwickshire -18 20 £525 -11.17% 3
Wolverhampton - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 2 £738 -
Herefordshire -15 1 £513 -
Solihull - 1 £447 -
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 74 (29.37%) SAS
2 13 (5.16%) Confluence
3 12 (4.76%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.98%) Apache
5 4 (1.59%) Tuxedo
6 2 (0.79%) Liferay
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Geronimo
7 1 (0.40%) Apache ServiceMix
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.38%) Primavera
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.79%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.21%) AWS
2 19 (7.54%) Azure
3 14 (5.56%) OCI
4 9 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.78%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.38%) SaaS
7 4 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.40%) GCP
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.40%) PaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) VSAN
2 2 (0.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) DMVPN
3 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) IPsec
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.43%) Pentaho
2 50 (19.84%) Oracle Database
3 36 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 31 (12.30%) Oracle Reports
5 22 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (7.14%) MySQL
7 10 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.57%) Power BI
8 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.17%) Metadata
9 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.59%) IDMS
10 4 (1.59%) Ingres
10 4 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.19%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (21.43%) Git
1 54 (21.43%) JIRA
2 36 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 29 (11.51%) GitLab
4 13 (5.16%) Zephyr
5 11 (4.37%) Postman
6 10 (3.97%) JUnit
6 10 (3.97%) Selenium
7 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.59%) CA Gen
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.59%) Toad
9 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.19%) Gatling
9 3 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.79%) JMeter
10 2 (0.79%) Maven
10 2 (0.79%) Mockito
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 68 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 40 (15.87%) Finance
4 14 (5.56%) Local Government
5 10 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.17%) Legal
7 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Advertising
9 3 (1.19%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Billing
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 55 (21.83%) Data Engineer
2 28 (11.11%) Analyst
3 19 (7.54%) Architect
4 17 (6.75%) DBA
4 17 (6.75%) Release Manager
4 17 (6.75%) Storage Analyst
5 15 (5.95%) Senior
6 13 (5.16%) Consultant
6 13 (5.16%) Oracle DBA
6 13 (5.16%) SAS Engineer
7 12 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (4.76%) Lead
8 11 (4.37%) Accountant
8 11 (4.37%) Tester
9 10 (3.97%) QA Tester
9 10 (3.97%) Senior Accountant
10 8 (3.17%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.17%) Senior Systems Accountant
10 8 (3.17%) Systems Accountant
10 8 (3.17%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (7.14%) Flash
3 12 (4.76%) REST
4 10 (3.97%) Spring
5 9 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.17%) XML
7 7 (2.78%) JSON
7 7 (2.78%) pytest
8 5 (1.98%) Middleware
8 5 (1.98%) Playwright
9 4 (1.59%) ADO
10 3 (1.19%) .NET
10 3 (1.19%) JDBC
10 3 (1.19%) React
11 2 (0.79%) OAuth
11 2 (0.79%) OpenID
11 2 (0.79%) PySpark
11 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.79%) WebCenter
11 2 (0.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 18 (7.14%) Replication
2 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.97%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Robotics
7 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.40%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.40%) FMCG
9 1 (0.40%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.11%) Linux
2 27 (10.71%) Unix
3 10 (3.97%) Windows
4 5 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (37.70%) Agile
2 72 (28.57%) ETL
3 68 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (22.62%) Test Automation
6 55 (21.83%) Scrum
7 48 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (18.65%) Data Integration
9 46 (18.25%) Analytics
10 41 (16.27%) Migration
10 41 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (15.87%) Data Modelling
11 40 (15.87%) DevOps
12 37 (14.68%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.90%) ERP
15 29 (11.51%) Enterprise Architecture
16 27 (10.71%) Data Virtualisation
16 27 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
16 27 (10.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.44%) SQL
2 28 (11.11%) Java
3 20 (7.94%) Python
4 16 (6.35%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.98%) Perl
7 4 (1.59%) Bash
7 4 (1.59%) VB
8 3 (1.19%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.79%) VB6
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
10 1 (0.40%) COBOL
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (54.37%) Security Cleared
2 129 (51.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.16%) ISTQB
4 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.78%) Degree
5 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.59%) OCP
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.19%) ACCA
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CIMA
8 3 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.79%) ISEB
9 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.33%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) SLA
4 5 (1.98%) PMO
5 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.19%) FATCA
6 3 (1.19%) WCAG
7 2 (0.79%) ITGC
8 1 (0.40%) GAAP
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (13.49%) Docker
2 18 (7.14%) GPFS
2 18 (7.14%) NFS
3 15 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.95%) vSphere
4 4 (1.59%) HDFS
5 3 (1.19%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.95%) vRealize
3 7 (2.78%) Grafana
4 5 (1.98%) Ansible
5 4 (1.59%) Kibana
5 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.19%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.19%) Terraform
6 3 (1.19%) VxRail
7 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 67 (26.59%) Talend
2 34 (13.49%) Denodo
3 33 (13.10%) Informatica
4 18 (7.14%) IBM
4 18 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.14%) SAP
4 18 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 17 (6.75%) Cisco
6 15 (5.95%) VMware
7 6 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.38%) Sage
7 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.19%) Splunk
11 2 (0.79%) Actian
11 2 (0.79%) Ariba
11 2 (0.79%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.79%) Remedy
11 2 (0.79%) webMethods