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 7 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
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 29 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 364 106 93
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.44% 6.31% 4.99%
As % of the Vendors category 22.85% 13.20% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 78 65
10th Percentile £350 £385 £351
25th Percentile £400 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -1.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £663
90th Percentile £620 £688 £733
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -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 £38.56 £37.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +2.81% +33.93% -49.09%

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 1,593 803 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.67% 47.83% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 512 604
10th Percentile £315 £230 £263
25th Percentile £401 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £613
90th Percentile £656 £643 £700
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 29 23
10th Percentile £16.09 £14.86 £13.40
25th Percentile £20.31 £24.66 £14.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year - +78.36% -27.66%
75th Percentile £50.50 £43.25 £42.13
90th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +39.17% -14.41% -25.80%

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 7 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 7 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 +6 215 £457 -12.95% 15
Birmingham +20 70 £525 -13.62% 15
Warwickshire -27 22 £400 -11.11% 5
Coventry -20 15 £325 -23.53% 2
Staffordshire +5 12 £850 +1973.17% 4
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 66 (18.13%) SAS
2 35 (9.62%) Confluence
3 18 (4.95%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (3.30%) WebLogic
6 10 (2.75%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Notepad++
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (5.22%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (4.95%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (4.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 17 (4.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.65%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.27%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (32.42%) AWS
2 50 (13.74%) Azure
3 22 (6.04%) OCI
4 15 (4.12%) PaaS
5 11 (3.02%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.75%) GitHub
7 7 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (1.92%) Serverless
8 6 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) Firewall
2 5 (1.37%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.37%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.82%) SSL
3 3 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (16.48%) Pentaho
2 57 (15.66%) Oracle Reports
3 46 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (11.54%) Oracle Database
5 27 (7.42%) MySQL
6 24 (6.59%) SQL Server
7 22 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 15 (4.12%) BusinessObjects
9 15 (4.12%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 11 (3.02%) Ingres
10 11 (3.02%) Power BI
11 10 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.92%) Metadata
14 7 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
14 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.65%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (20.60%) JIRA
2 63 (17.31%) GitLab
3 52 (14.29%) Git
4 33 (9.07%) Zephyr
5 28 (7.69%) Postman
6 22 (6.04%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.02%) Artifactory
7 11 (3.02%) Selenium
8 7 (1.92%) Maven
9 5 (1.37%) JUnit
9 5 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.10%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.10%) Gatling
10 4 (1.10%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.82%) Toad
12 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.27%) NeoLoad
General
1 80 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.88%) Public Sector
3 73 (20.05%) Finance
4 40 (10.99%) Local Government
5 20 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.20%) Legal
7 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.10%) Police
9 3 (0.82%) Advertising
9 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Billing
10 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (24.73%) Data Engineer
2 32 (8.79%) Lead
3 29 (7.97%) Analyst
4 23 (6.32%) Architect
5 22 (6.04%) Senior
6 20 (5.49%) Tester
7 19 (5.22%) Finance Manager
8 17 (4.67%) DBA
8 17 (4.67%) QA Tester
8 17 (4.67%) Release Manager
8 17 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.40%) Test Analyst
10 14 (3.85%) Administrator
10 14 (3.85%) Developer
10 14 (3.85%) Finance Systems Manager
11 13 (3.57%) SAS Engineer
12 11 (3.02%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.47%) Consultant
14 9 (2.47%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.92%) Flash
2 7 (1.92%) REST
3 5 (1.37%) ADO
3 5 (1.37%) COM
3 5 (1.37%) Kafka
3 5 (1.37%) Middleware
3 5 (1.37%) ODBC
3 5 (1.37%) SOAP
4 4 (1.10%) .NET
4 4 (1.10%) JSON
4 4 (1.10%) Playwright
4 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.10%) React
4 4 (1.10%) Web Services
4 4 (1.10%) XML
5 3 (0.82%) Spring
6 2 (0.55%) PySpark
6 2 (0.55%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.27%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.75%) SCADA
5 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.47%) Replication
6 8 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.20%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.37%) IoT
7 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.10%) Robotics
9 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.81%) Unix
2 34 (9.34%) Linux
3 8 (2.20%) Windows
4 5 (1.37%) SUSE
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.27%) HPUX
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.44%) Agile
2 121 (33.24%) ETL
3 90 (24.73%) Migration
4 85 (23.35%) Test Automation
5 60 (16.48%) CI/CD
5 60 (16.48%) Data Integration
6 58 (15.93%) Data Modelling
7 56 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (14.84%) ERP
9 53 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (14.56%) Data Migration
10 48 (13.19%) Analytics
11 47 (12.91%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (12.09%) Scrum
13 42 (11.54%) DevOps
14 39 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (9.89%) Integration Testing
16 35 (9.62%) Test Scripting
16 35 (9.62%) Validation
17 34 (9.34%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 180 (49.45%) SQL
2 42 (11.54%) PL/SQL
3 28 (7.69%) Java
4 25 (6.87%) Python
5 14 (3.85%) C
5 14 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 11 (3.02%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.75%) Bash
8 8 (2.20%) ProC
9 6 (1.65%) Bicep
9 6 (1.65%) VB
9 6 (1.65%) VB6
10 3 (0.82%) HiveQL
11 2 (0.55%) Perl
11 2 (0.55%) R
11 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 205 (56.32%) Security Cleared
2 191 (52.47%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.42%) ISTQB
4 14 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.75%) OCP
5 10 (2.75%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.37%) Degree
6 5 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.10%) ISEB
8 3 (0.82%) ACCA
8 3 (0.82%) CCAB
8 3 (0.82%) CIMA
9 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.55%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.71%) QA
2 29 (7.97%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.92%) GDPR
3 7 (1.92%) SLA
4 6 (1.65%) FATCA
4 6 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.10%) WCAG
6 2 (0.55%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) GAAP
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (5.22%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) GPFS
2 7 (1.92%) NFS
2 7 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (1.65%) vSphere
4 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.82%) HDFS
4 3 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.47%) Terraform
3 7 (1.92%) Grafana
4 6 (1.65%) vRealize
5 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 3 (0.82%) VxRail
6 2 (0.55%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 96 (26.37%) Talend
2 58 (15.93%) Informatica
3 41 (11.26%) Denodo
4 35 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 22 (6.04%) SAP
6 13 (3.57%) IBM
7 10 (2.75%) Cloudera
7 10 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.47%) Sage
8 9 (2.47%) VMware
9 7 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.65%) Cisco
10 6 (1.65%) Databricks
11 5 (1.37%) Actian
11 5 (1.37%) MathWorks
11 5 (1.37%) Siemens
12 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.82%) webMethods
13 2 (0.55%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft