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 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 348 118 122
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.83% 6.44% 6.37%
As % of the Vendors category 22.26% 12.53% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 82 81
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £713
90th Percentile £579 £688 £763
England median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -3.08%
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 1,563 942 890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.14% 51.42% 46.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 615 590
10th Percentile £313 £238 £250
25th Percentile £405 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 28 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.72 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £26.66 £15.22
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £34.13 £44.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £54.35 £50.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -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 19 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 19 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 +1 188 £459 -12.57% 17
Birmingham +30 69 £525 -12.72% 54
Staffordshire +12 47 £450 +997.56% 4
Warwickshire -25 16 £400 -5.88% 9
Coventry -25 11 £325 -23.53% 5
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 (13.22%) SAS
2 28 (8.05%) Confluence
3 17 (4.89%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (3.16%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.72%) Tuxedo
7 4 (1.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Notepad++
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.89%) Oracle Payables
1 17 (4.89%) Oracle Receivables
2 16 (4.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 16 (4.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.15%) Oracle HRMS
4 4 (1.15%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 101 (29.02%) AWS
2 39 (11.21%) Azure
3 28 (8.05%) OCI
4 14 (4.02%) PaaS
5 7 (2.01%) GitHub
6 6 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.15%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.15%) Serverless
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.86%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (0.86%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.57%) GCP
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) PuTTY
1 5 (1.44%) WinSCP
2 2 (0.57%) Firewall
2 2 (0.57%) VSAN
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.64%) Oracle Reports
2 42 (12.07%) Pentaho
3 40 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (10.92%) Oracle Database
5 21 (6.03%) MySQL
5 21 (6.03%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (4.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 15 (4.31%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 12 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
9 11 (3.16%) Ingres
10 10 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.59%) Oracle Exadata
12 8 (2.30%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 7 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.01%) Metadata
13 7 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (1.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 61 (17.53%) JIRA
2 60 (17.24%) GitLab
3 45 (12.93%) Git
4 27 (7.76%) Zephyr
5 23 (6.61%) Postman
6 14 (4.02%) Selenium
7 13 (3.74%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.16%) Artifactory
9 9 (2.59%) Maven
10 8 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.30%) JUnit
11 7 (2.01%) Gatling
12 6 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.15%) LoadRunner
15 3 (0.86%) Toad
16 1 (0.29%) Mockito
16 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 73 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.97%) Public Sector
3 64 (18.39%) Finance
4 29 (8.33%) Local Government
5 26 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.44%) Legal
7 5 (1.44%) Police
8 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.57%) Billing
9 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Military
9 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
10 1 (0.29%) Banking
10 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (19.83%) Data Engineer
2 43 (12.36%) Lead
3 26 (7.47%) Administrator
3 26 (7.47%) Analyst
4 18 (5.17%) Developer
4 18 (5.17%) Finance Manager
5 17 (4.89%) Release Manager
5 17 (4.89%) Senior
6 16 (4.60%) Consultant
6 16 (4.60%) Oracle Consultant
6 16 (4.60%) Test Analyst
7 15 (4.31%) Architect
7 15 (4.31%) DBA
8 13 (3.74%) Tester
9 12 (3.45%) Finance Systems Manager
9 12 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (3.45%) Oracle Project Manager
9 12 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.16%) QA Tester
10 11 (3.16%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (28.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.74%) REST
3 12 (3.45%) SOAP
4 9 (2.59%) .NET
5 8 (2.30%) JSON
5 8 (2.30%) Playwright
5 8 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (2.30%) React
6 6 (1.72%) Terraform
7 5 (1.44%) ADO
7 5 (1.44%) COM
7 5 (1.44%) Flash
7 5 (1.44%) ODBC
7 5 (1.44%) Spring
7 5 (1.44%) Web Services
7 5 (1.44%) XML
8 4 (1.15%) Middleware
9 2 (0.57%) Kafka
10 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.29%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.01%) Replication
5 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.44%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.44%) SCADA
7 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.57%) IoT
9 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.29%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.48%) Unix
2 30 (8.62%) Linux
3 10 (2.87%) Windows
4 5 (1.44%) SUSE
5 2 (0.57%) AIX
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) HPUX
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (34.48%) Agile
2 94 (27.01%) ETL
3 93 (26.72%) Migration
4 71 (20.40%) Test Automation
5 57 (16.38%) Data Migration
6 55 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (14.66%) CI/CD
8 50 (14.37%) Data Integration
9 49 (14.08%) Data Modelling
10 46 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (13.22%) ERP
11 44 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (10.92%) Mentoring
13 37 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (10.34%) Analytics
14 36 (10.34%) Validation
15 34 (9.77%) Integration Testing
16 33 (9.48%) System Testing
17 32 (9.20%) Scrum
18 31 (8.91%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 150 (43.10%) SQL
2 37 (10.63%) PL/SQL
3 29 (8.33%) Java
4 15 (4.31%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.31%) Python
5 14 (4.02%) C
6 13 (3.74%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.30%) ProC
8 6 (1.72%) VB
8 6 (1.72%) VB6
9 4 (1.15%) Bash
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) R
10 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) C#
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 174 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 161 (46.26%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 19 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.59%) OCP
5 9 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.15%) ACCA
7 4 (1.15%) CCAB
7 4 (1.15%) CIMA
7 4 (1.15%) Degree
7 4 (1.15%) ISEB
8 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.86%) PMP
9 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.92%) QA
2 26 (7.47%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.30%) WCAG
4 7 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.72%) FATCA
6 5 (1.44%) SLA
7 4 (1.15%) GDPR
7 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.29%) GMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (4.89%) Docker
2 5 (1.44%) GPFS
2 5 (1.44%) NFS
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.15%) vSphere
4 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.44%) Grafana
3 4 (1.15%) vRealize
4 3 (0.86%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.57%) VxRail
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (20.98%) Talend
2 37 (10.63%) Informatica
3 32 (9.20%) Microsoft
4 31 (8.91%) Denodo
5 17 (4.89%) SAP
6 11 (3.16%) IBM
7 8 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.44%) Actian
8 5 (1.44%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.44%) Sage
8 5 (1.44%) Siemens
8 5 (1.44%) VMware
9 4 (1.15%) Cisco
9 4 (1.15%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.86%) webMethods
11 2 (0.57%) Databricks
11 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.29%) Sparx