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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 33 25
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 354 119 126
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.88% 6.48% 6.61%
As % of the Vendors category 22.59% 12.54% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 83 83
10th Percentile £351 £403 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £713
90th Percentile £588 £688 £760
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
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 £41.71 £37.50 £34.55
% change year-on-year +11.23% +8.55% -39.74%

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 1,567 949 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.75% 51.66% 47.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 617 594
10th Percentile £313 £243 £222
25th Percentile £403 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £624
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 31 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.13 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £19.25 £15.22
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +36.96%
75th Percentile £33.99 £36.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -28.14% -20.16%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +1 192 £459 -12.57% 15
Birmingham +29 69 £513 -15.01% 50
Staffordshire +13 48 £475 - 2
Warwickshire -26 15 £400 -8.57% 13
Coventry -27 12 £325 -23.53% 3
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 46 (12.99%) SAS
2 28 (7.91%) Confluence
3 16 (4.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (3.11%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.69%) Tuxedo
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Notepad++
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.52%) Oracle Payables
1 16 (4.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 15 (4.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 15 (4.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (1.98%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.13%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 102 (28.81%) AWS
2 39 (11.02%) Azure
3 31 (8.76%) OCI
4 14 (3.95%) PaaS
5 7 (1.98%) GitHub
6 6 (1.69%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 5 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.13%) Serverless
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.85%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.56%) GCP
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.41%) PuTTY
1 5 (1.41%) WinSCP
2 2 (0.56%) VSAN
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.15%) Oracle Reports
2 42 (11.86%) Pentaho
3 41 (11.58%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.73%) Oracle Database
5 22 (6.21%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.93%) MySQL
7 17 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (4.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 15 (4.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 13 (3.67%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (3.11%) Ingres
12 10 (2.82%) Relational Database
13 9 (2.54%) Oracle Exadata
14 8 (2.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 7 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.98%) Metadata
15 7 (1.98%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 65 (18.36%) GitLab
2 61 (17.23%) JIRA
3 51 (14.41%) Git
4 27 (7.63%) Zephyr
5 23 (6.50%) Postman
6 15 (4.24%) Selenium
7 13 (3.67%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.11%) Artifactory
9 9 (2.54%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.54%) JUnit
9 9 (2.54%) Maven
10 8 (2.26%) Gatling
11 6 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (1.13%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.85%) Toad
15 1 (0.28%) Mockito
15 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
General
1 77 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.93%) Public Sector
3 63 (17.80%) Finance
4 28 (7.91%) Local Government
5 24 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.41%) Legal
7 5 (1.41%) Police
8 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.56%) Billing
9 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Military
9 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (19.49%) Data Engineer
2 42 (11.86%) Lead
3 26 (7.34%) Administrator
3 26 (7.34%) Analyst
4 22 (6.21%) Developer
5 21 (5.93%) Senior
6 17 (4.80%) Finance Manager
6 17 (4.80%) Release Manager
7 16 (4.52%) Consultant
7 16 (4.52%) Oracle Consultant
7 16 (4.52%) Test Analyst
8 15 (4.24%) Architect
8 15 (4.24%) DBA
9 13 (3.67%) Tester
10 12 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.39%) Oracle Project Manager
10 12 (3.39%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.11%) Finance Systems Manager
11 11 (3.11%) Oracle Developer
11 11 (3.11%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (27.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (3.95%) REST
3 13 (3.67%) JSON
3 13 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (3.39%) .NET
4 12 (3.39%) SOAP
5 11 (3.11%) React
6 9 (2.54%) Playwright
7 7 (1.98%) Spring
8 6 (1.69%) Terraform
9 5 (1.41%) ADO
9 5 (1.41%) COM
9 5 (1.41%) Flash
9 5 (1.41%) ODBC
9 5 (1.41%) Web Services
9 5 (1.41%) XML
10 4 (1.13%) Middleware
11 3 (0.85%) Spring.NET
12 2 (0.56%) Kafka
13 1 (0.28%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.80%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.98%) Replication
5 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.13%) SCADA
8 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.56%) IoT
9 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.28%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.28%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.60%) Unix
2 30 (8.47%) Linux
3 9 (2.54%) Windows
4 5 (1.41%) SUSE
5 2 (0.56%) AIX
6 1 (0.28%) HPUX
6 1 (0.28%) Solaris
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.59%) Agile
2 95 (26.84%) ETL
3 94 (26.55%) Migration
4 72 (20.34%) Test Automation
5 58 (16.38%) Data Migration
6 54 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (14.69%) CI/CD
8 51 (14.41%) Data Integration
9 49 (13.84%) Data Modelling
10 48 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 47 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (12.99%) ERP
13 38 (10.73%) Mentoring
14 37 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (10.17%) Scrum
15 36 (10.17%) Validation
16 35 (9.89%) Analytics
16 35 (9.89%) Integration Testing
17 34 (9.60%) System Testing
18 32 (9.04%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.09%) SQL
2 36 (10.17%) PL/SQL
3 34 (9.60%) Java
4 19 (5.37%) Python
5 18 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.95%) C
7 13 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.26%) ProC
9 6 (1.69%) VB
9 6 (1.69%) VB6
10 4 (1.13%) Bash
11 2 (0.56%) Bicep
11 2 (0.56%) R
11 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.28%) C#
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 173 (48.87%) Security Cleared
2 160 (45.20%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 24 (6.78%) ISTQB
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.54%) OCP
4 9 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.13%) ACCA
7 4 (1.13%) CCAB
7 4 (1.13%) CIMA
7 4 (1.13%) Degree
7 4 (1.13%) ISEB
8 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.30%) QA
2 25 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.54%) WCAG
4 8 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.69%) FATCA
6 5 (1.41%) SLA
7 4 (1.13%) GDPR
7 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.28%) GMP
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (5.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.41%) GPFS
2 5 (1.41%) NFS
3 4 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.13%) vSphere
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.41%) Grafana
3 4 (1.13%) vRealize
4 3 (0.85%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.56%) VxRail
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (20.62%) Talend
2 37 (10.45%) Informatica
3 31 (8.76%) Denodo
3 31 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.80%) SAP
5 12 (3.39%) IBM
6 8 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.41%) Actian
7 5 (1.41%) MathWorks
7 5 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.41%) Sage
7 5 (1.41%) Siemens
8 4 (1.13%) Cisco
8 4 (1.13%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.13%) VMware
9 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.85%) webMethods
10 2 (0.56%) Databricks
10 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.28%) Workday