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 3 October 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
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 32 27
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Oracle 350 121 125
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.73% 6.52% 6.61%
As % of the Vendors category 22.24% 12.51% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 83 82
10th Percentile £350 £403 £413
25th Percentile £411 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £713
90th Percentile £591 £688 £761
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.72
25th Percentile £51.25 - £19.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £23.60
75th Percentile £53.75 - £23.80
90th Percentile £55.55 - £23.92
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £28.80
% change year-on-year +11.23% +30.23% -50.85%

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 1,574 967 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.77% 52.10% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 623 587
10th Percentile £313 £249 £213
25th Percentile £403 £388 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £515 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.98% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 33 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.23 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate £20.62 £30.00 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -31.28% +14.83% +13.59%
75th Percentile £33.99 £35.00 £45.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +1 184 £459 -12.57% 21
Birmingham +34 69 £525 -12.50% 63
Staffordshire +13 48 £475 - 4
Warwickshire -25 18 £400 -8.57% 16
Coventry -27 12 £325 -44.80% 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 32 (9.14%) SAS
2 28 (8.00%) Confluence
3 15 (4.29%) WebLogic
4 11 (3.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.71%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.86%) Notepad++
2 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.29%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (4.29%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (4.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 13 (3.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.14%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.57%) iTrent
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.57%) AWS
2 36 (10.29%) OCI
3 30 (8.57%) Azure
4 10 (2.86%) PaaS
5 7 (2.00%) GitHub
5 7 (2.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 6 (1.71%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
8 4 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.14%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.14%) 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%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.86%) PuTTY
1 3 (0.86%) WinSCP
2 2 (0.57%) VSAN
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.00%) Oracle Reports
2 41 (11.71%) Pentaho
3 39 (11.14%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (9.43%) Oracle Database
5 22 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.71%) MySQL
7 17 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.71%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.14%) Ingres
10 10 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
10 10 (2.86%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.57%) Oracle Exadata
12 8 (2.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 8 (2.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 8 (2.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 7 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.00%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (1.43%) Metadata
16 4 (1.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (19.14%) GitLab
2 59 (16.86%) JIRA
3 49 (14.00%) Git
4 27 (7.71%) Zephyr
5 23 (6.57%) Postman
6 15 (4.29%) Selenium
7 12 (3.43%) Maven
8 11 (3.14%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.86%) Jenkins
10 9 (2.57%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.57%) JUnit
11 8 (2.29%) Gatling
12 6 (1.71%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.43%) Toad
14 4 (1.14%) LoadRunner
15 1 (0.29%) Mockito
15 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 72 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.71%) Public Sector
3 62 (17.71%) Finance
4 27 (7.71%) Local Government
5 22 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.00%) Police
7 6 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.43%) Legal
9 3 (0.86%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.57%) Billing
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Military
10 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (18.57%) Data Engineer
2 42 (12.00%) Lead
3 28 (8.00%) Analyst
4 26 (7.43%) Administrator
5 25 (7.14%) Developer
6 22 (6.29%) Senior
7 18 (5.14%) Test Analyst
8 17 (4.86%) Consultant
8 17 (4.86%) Oracle Consultant
9 16 (4.57%) Architect
9 16 (4.57%) Finance Manager
10 15 (4.29%) DBA
11 13 (3.71%) Release Manager
11 13 (3.71%) Tester
12 12 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.43%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (3.43%) QA Tester
13 11 (3.14%) Java Engineer
13 11 (3.14%) Oracle Project Manager
13 11 (3.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (28.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (5.14%) REST
3 13 (3.71%) JSON
3 13 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (3.43%) .NET
4 12 (3.43%) SOAP
5 11 (3.14%) React
6 9 (2.57%) Playwright
7 7 (2.00%) Middleware
7 7 (2.00%) Spring
7 7 (2.00%) Web Services
7 7 (2.00%) XML
8 6 (1.71%) Terraform
9 5 (1.43%) ADO
9 5 (1.43%) COM
9 5 (1.43%) Flash
9 5 (1.43%) ODBC
10 3 (0.86%) OAuth
10 3 (0.86%) Spring.NET
11 2 (0.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.14%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.00%) Replication
4 6 (1.71%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.14%) SCADA
7 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.57%) IoT
8 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.43%) Linux
2 30 (8.57%) Unix
3 11 (3.14%) Windows
4 5 (1.43%) SUSE
5 2 (0.57%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) HPUX
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (35.14%) Agile
2 95 (27.14%) ETL
3 83 (23.71%) Migration
4 72 (20.57%) Test Automation
5 57 (16.29%) Data Migration
6 50 (14.29%) ERP
6 50 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (12.86%) Data Modelling
10 43 (12.29%) CI/CD
11 40 (11.43%) Data Integration
12 38 (10.86%) Mentoring
13 37 (10.57%) Scrum
14 36 (10.29%) Integration Testing
14 36 (10.29%) System Testing
15 34 (9.71%) End-to-End Testing
16 33 (9.43%) Test Scripting
17 32 (9.14%) Performance Testing
17 32 (9.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (42.86%) SQL
2 39 (11.14%) Java
3 34 (9.71%) PL/SQL
4 18 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.86%) Python
6 14 (4.00%) C
6 14 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.29%) ProC
8 6 (1.71%) VB
8 6 (1.71%) VB6
9 3 (0.86%) 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
1 165 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 153 (43.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (7.14%) ISTQB
5 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.57%) OCP
5 9 (2.57%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (2.00%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.43%) ISEB
9 4 (1.14%) ACCA
9 4 (1.14%) CCAB
9 4 (1.14%) CIMA
9 4 (1.14%) Degree
10 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.86%) PMP
11 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.71%) QA
2 22 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.57%) WCAG
4 8 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.71%) FATCA
6 4 (1.14%) GDPR
6 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.14%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.29%) GMP
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) GxP
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 12 (3.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.43%) GPFS
2 5 (1.43%) NFS
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.14%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.14%) Grafana
2 4 (1.14%) vRealize
3 3 (0.86%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.57%) VxRail
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 71 (20.29%) Talend
2 39 (11.14%) Informatica
3 29 (8.29%) Microsoft
4 24 (6.86%) Denodo
5 19 (5.43%) SAP
6 12 (3.43%) IBM
7 8 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.43%) Actian
8 5 (1.43%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.43%) Sage
8 5 (1.43%) Siemens
9 4 (1.14%) Cisco
9 4 (1.14%) VMware
9 4 (1.14%) webMethods
10 3 (0.86%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.57%) Databricks
11 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.29%) Workday