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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing Oracle 299 62 73
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.25% 4.44% 3.75%
As % of the Vendors category 20.63% 9.09% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 47 49
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.62% -9.72%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £588 £645 £701
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £47.54 - £18.60
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.35 - -
England median hourly rate £41.36 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +36.04% +16.92% -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 1,449 682 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.85% 48.82% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 434 537
10th Percentile £313 £190 £250
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £624
90th Percentile £645 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 26 55
10th Percentile £20.31 £14.45 £11.09
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.58 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +44.15% +40.19% -9.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.35 £27.86
90th Percentile £67.84 £45.99 £55.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.90
% change year-on-year +21.50% +16.82% -42.10%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +17 176 £459 -10.00% 14
Birmingham +7 48 £500 -11.11% 17
Coventry -5 19 £402 - 1
Warwickshire -25 18 £525 +10.53% 3
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire -5 1 £375 +26.90% 15
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 71 (23.75%) SAS
2 34 (11.37%) Confluence
3 14 (4.68%) Oracle Workflow
4 10 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.68%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.01%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (1.34%) Apache
7 4 (1.34%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.67%) Liferay
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.33%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.67%) Notepad++
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.01%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (3.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 10 (3.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (3.34%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (2.01%) Oracle HRMS
5 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.44%) AWS
2 35 (11.71%) Azure
3 11 (3.68%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.34%) OCI
5 6 (2.01%) PaaS
6 5 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.67%) Serverless
7 4 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.34%) GitHub
7 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.34%) SaaS
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.01%) Firewall
2 5 (1.67%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.67%) VSAN
2 5 (1.67%) WinSCP
3 3 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.06%) Pentaho
2 47 (15.72%) Oracle Reports
3 43 (14.38%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (13.38%) Oracle Database
5 20 (6.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (4.68%) BusinessObjects
6 14 (4.68%) MySQL
7 12 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.68%) Power BI
9 9 (3.01%) Metadata
9 9 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.01%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.67%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.34%) Ingres
12 4 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (21.74%) JIRA
2 59 (19.73%) GitLab
3 32 (10.70%) Git
4 29 (9.70%) Zephyr
5 23 (7.69%) Postman
6 19 (6.35%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.68%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.68%) Selenium
9 4 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.34%) CA Gen
10 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.67%) JMeter
11 2 (0.67%) JUnit
11 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 69 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.72%) Public Sector
3 41 (13.71%) Finance
4 30 (10.03%) Local Government
5 19 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.68%) Legal
7 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Advertising
9 2 (0.67%) Billing
9 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 87 (29.10%) Data Engineer
2 28 (9.36%) Analyst
3 24 (8.03%) Architect
4 20 (6.69%) Lead
5 18 (6.02%) Release Manager
5 18 (6.02%) Senior
5 18 (6.02%) Tester
6 16 (5.35%) DBA
6 16 (5.35%) QA Tester
6 16 (5.35%) SAS Engineer
7 13 (4.35%) Storage Analyst
8 12 (4.01%) Developer
8 12 (4.01%) Test Analyst
9 11 (3.68%) Accountant
9 11 (3.68%) Oracle DBA
9 11 (3.68%) Senior Accountant
9 11 (3.68%) Senior Systems Accountant
9 11 (3.68%) Systems Accountant
10 10 (3.34%) Finance Manager
10 10 (3.34%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (5.35%) Flash
3 5 (1.67%) Middleware
3 5 (1.67%) Spring
4 4 (1.34%) ADO
4 4 (1.34%) REST
4 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.00%) JSON
5 3 (1.00%) Kafka
5 3 (1.00%) XML
6 2 (0.67%) ActiveX
6 2 (0.67%) COM
6 2 (0.67%) ODBC
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (0.67%) pytest
6 2 (0.67%) Web Services
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.33%) Itk
7 1 (0.33%) PySpark
7 1 (0.33%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (5.35%) Replication
3 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.34%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.01%) SCADA
7 5 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.34%) Robotics
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) IoT
10 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.67%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.39%) Unix
2 35 (11.71%) Linux
3 7 (2.34%) Windows
4 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) AIX
6 1 (0.33%) HPUX
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (37.12%) ETL
2 104 (34.78%) Agile
3 73 (24.41%) Test Automation
4 68 (22.74%) Migration
5 54 (18.06%) CI/CD
6 51 (17.06%) Data Integration
6 51 (17.06%) Data Modelling
7 49 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (14.72%) Scrum
9 43 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (12.71%) Data Migration
12 35 (11.71%) Analytics
13 34 (11.37%) DevOps
14 32 (10.70%) ERP
15 31 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (10.37%) Test Scripting
16 29 (9.70%) Integration Testing
16 29 (9.70%) System Testing
16 29 (9.70%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (53.51%) SQL
2 37 (12.37%) PL/SQL
3 25 (8.36%) Python
4 17 (5.69%) Java
5 13 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 9 (3.01%) Bash
7 4 (1.34%) Bicep
7 4 (1.34%) Perl
7 4 (1.34%) VB
8 3 (1.00%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.67%) VB6
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 186 (62.21%) Security Cleared
2 175 (58.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.02%) ISTQB
4 11 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.34%) Degree
6 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.34%) OCP
6 4 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.00%) PMP
7 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.03%) QA
2 21 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.01%) FATCA
4 8 (2.68%) SLA
5 4 (1.34%) GDPR
5 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) GAAP
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.33%) ITGC
7 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (5.35%) GPFS
1 16 (5.35%) NFS
2 14 (4.68%) Docker
3 13 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.01%) vSphere
5 6 (2.01%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.00%) HDFS
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Clusterware
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.01%) vRealize
3 7 (2.34%) Grafana
3 7 (2.34%) Terraform
4 5 (1.67%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.67%) VxRail
5 3 (1.00%) Ansible
6 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 93 (31.10%) Talend
2 60 (20.07%) Informatica
3 39 (13.04%) Denodo
4 23 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 17 (5.69%) IBM
6 16 (5.35%) SAP
6 16 (5.35%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.02%) VMware
8 12 (4.01%) Cisco
9 9 (3.01%) Cloudera
9 9 (3.01%) Sage
10 6 (2.01%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.34%) Databricks
12 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.67%) Actian
13 2 (0.67%) HP
14 1 (0.33%) Citrix
14 1 (0.33%) JD Edwards
14 1 (0.33%) TIBCO