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 19 November 2025, 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing Oracle 187 131 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 8.78% 6.98% 3.94%
As % of the Vendors category 16.15% 14.49% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 88 52
10th Percentile £367 £413 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +18.92% -14.35%
75th Percentile £561 £713 £625
90th Percentile £688 £768 £743
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% - -
England median hourly rate £39.68 £24.30 £59.00
% change year-on-year +63.28% -58.81% -1.67%

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 1,158 904 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.37% 48.19% 52.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 592 653
10th Percentile £275 £250 £219
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £594
90th Percentile £651 £713 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 21
10th Percentile £16.05 £13.70 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.07 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.45 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +32.39% +41.67%
75th Percentile £36.25 £35.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £42.25
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.36% -22.22% +73.08%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 98 £525 +10.06% 19
Warwickshire +4 30 £450 +5.88% 15
Birmingham -42 29 £600 -4.00% 15
Coventry +1 19 £513 +7.89% 2
Herefordshire -8 2 £519 - 1
Solihull - 1 £447 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £750 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 64 (34.22%) SAS
2 18 (9.63%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.49%) Apache
4 11 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (3.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (1.07%) Confluence
7 2 (1.07%) FileNet
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.53%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (3.21%) Primavera
2 5 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle HRMS
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.07%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.07%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.06%) AWS
2 34 (18.18%) Azure
3 14 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (3.74%) PaaS
5 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.67%) OCI
6 5 (2.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.14%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.07%) SaaS
8 2 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.53%) GCP
9 1 (0.53%) Serverless
9 1 (0.53%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) BGP
1 2 (1.07%) DMVPN
1 2 (1.07%) EIGRP
1 2 (1.07%) Firewall
1 2 (1.07%) IPsec
1 2 (1.07%) OSPF
1 2 (1.07%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.07%) Wireless
1 2 (1.07%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.53%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (0.53%) VLAN
2 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.93%) Pentaho
2 37 (19.79%) Oracle Database
3 35 (18.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (6.95%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (5.88%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 7 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.74%) MySQL
7 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.67%) Metadata
8 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.14%) Power BI
9 4 (2.14%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.60%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.60%) OLTP
10 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.07%) DB2
11 2 (1.07%) EDMS
11 2 (1.07%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 43 (22.99%) Git
2 41 (21.93%) JIRA
3 37 (19.79%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.02%) GitLab
5 8 (4.28%) JUnit
5 8 (4.28%) Selenium
6 4 (2.14%) Toad
7 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.60%) Gatling
8 2 (1.07%) Maven
8 2 (1.07%) Mockito
8 2 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.07%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) Deequ
General
1 66 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 30 (16.04%) Finance
4 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.60%) Marketing
7 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.07%) Back Office
8 2 (1.07%) Electronics
8 2 (1.07%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.07%) Local Government
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.53%) Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (13.90%) Data Engineer
2 17 (9.09%) Release Manager
3 16 (8.56%) Analyst
4 13 (6.95%) Consultant
5 10 (5.35%) Lead
6 9 (4.81%) DBA
6 9 (4.81%) Oracle DBA
6 9 (4.81%) Oracle Specialist
7 8 (4.28%) Monitoring Engineer
7 8 (4.28%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.28%) SAS Engineer
7 8 (4.28%) Senior
8 7 (3.74%) Oracle Project Manager
8 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.21%) Test Analyst
9 6 (3.21%) Test Specialist
10 5 (2.67%) Architect
10 5 (2.67%) Data Architect
10 5 (2.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (2.67%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (5.35%) REST
3 9 (4.81%) Flash
4 7 (3.74%) Spring
4 7 (3.74%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.67%) JSON
5 5 (2.67%) Playwright
5 5 (2.67%) pytest
5 5 (2.67%) XML
6 4 (2.14%) Middleware
7 3 (1.60%) .NET
7 3 (1.60%) React
7 3 (1.60%) SOAP
7 3 (1.60%) WireMock
8 2 (1.07%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.07%) GraalVM
8 2 (1.07%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.07%) OpenID
8 2 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.07%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
1 9 (4.81%) Replication
2 6 (3.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.60%) SCADA
6 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) FMCG
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.97%) Linux
2 23 (12.30%) Windows
3 20 (10.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.43%) Analytics
2 65 (34.76%) Agile
3 63 (33.69%) CI/CD
4 58 (31.02%) Business Intelligence
5 56 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (27.27%) DevOps
7 49 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (26.20%) Scrum
8 48 (25.67%) Data Integration
9 46 (24.60%) Test Automation
10 44 (23.53%) ETL
11 39 (20.86%) Data Modelling
12 38 (20.32%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (17.65%) Migration
14 32 (17.11%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (17.11%) Test Strategy
15 31 (16.58%) Data Virtualisation
16 28 (14.97%) Data Analytics
17 24 (12.83%) Risk Assessment
18 23 (12.30%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.32%) SQL
2 17 (9.09%) Java
3 13 (6.95%) Python
4 7 (3.74%) PL/SQL
5 6 (3.21%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.14%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.07%) Scala
8 1 (0.53%) Bash
8 1 (0.53%) C
8 1 (0.53%) COBOL
8 1 (0.53%) Korn
8 1 (0.53%) Perl
8 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 88 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 79 (42.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.67%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.60%) ACCA
5 3 (1.60%) CIMA
6 2 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.07%) CCNP
6 2 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.07%) ISEB
6 2 (1.07%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.07%) OCP
6 2 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.53%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.88%) SLA
3 7 (3.74%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.14%) GDPR
4 4 (2.14%) PMO
5 3 (1.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
System Software
1 44 (23.53%) Docker
2 9 (4.81%) GPFS
2 9 (4.81%) NFS
2 9 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.81%) vSphere
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (25.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.81%) vRealize
3 4 (2.14%) Grafana
3 4 (2.14%) Kibana
4 3 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.07%) Ansible
5 2 (1.07%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (1.07%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (22.46%) Talend
2 33 (17.65%) Denodo
3 24 (12.83%) Cisco
4 20 (10.70%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.56%) Dynatrace
5 16 (8.56%) Splunk
6 15 (8.02%) IBM
6 15 (8.02%) SAP
7 14 (7.49%) AppDynamics
8 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.81%) VMware
10 8 (4.28%) Informatica
11 4 (2.14%) Adobe
12 3 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.60%) webMethods
12 3 (1.60%) Workday
13 2 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 2 (1.07%) Juniper
13 2 (1.07%) PagerDuty
13 2 (1.07%) UiPath