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 6 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 22 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -26
Contract jobs citing Oracle 182 134 84
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.01% 7.05% 4.41%
As % of the Vendors category 16.53% 14.61% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 88 55
10th Percentile £365 £413 £350
25th Percentile £456 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +11.47% -12.04%
75th Percentile £564 £684 £613
90th Percentile £688 £754 £737
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.07% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £59.06
% change year-on-year +53.06% -58.51% +7.37%

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 1,101 917 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.53% 48.21% 50.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 604 611
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +8.11% -6.57%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £588
90th Percentile £653 £711 £680
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 20
10th Percentile £16.05 £15.04 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.38 £23.60 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +36.96% +39.39%
75th Percentile £36.25 £35.00 £29.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £43.53
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +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 6 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 6 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 88 £525 +10.06% 31
Warwickshire +7 32 £450 +5.88% 22
Birmingham -33 29 £600 +4.35% 29
Coventry +6 23 £513 +7.89% 6
Herefordshire - 2 £519 - 1
Solihull -1 1 £447 -
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 59 (32.42%) SAS
2 18 (9.89%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.69%) Apache
4 11 (6.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (3.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (1.10%) Confluence
7 2 (1.10%) FileNet
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.55%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (3.30%) Primavera
2 5 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle HRMS
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.65%) SAP PM
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.10%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.10%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 43 (23.63%) AWS
2 35 (19.23%) Azure
3 14 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (4.40%) OCI
5 7 (3.85%) PaaS
5 7 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.75%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.20%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.65%) Collibra
8 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.10%) SaaS
9 2 (1.10%) Serverless
9 2 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.10%) Taleo
10 1 (0.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.10%) BGP
2 2 (1.10%) DMVPN
2 2 (1.10%) EIGRP
2 2 (1.10%) IPsec
2 2 (1.10%) OSPF
2 2 (1.10%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.10%) Wireless
2 2 (1.10%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.55%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.55%) VLAN
3 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.98%) Oracle Database
2 35 (19.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 32 (17.58%) Pentaho
4 14 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (6.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 7 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.85%) MySQL
7 5 (2.75%) Metadata
7 5 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.75%) Power BI
7 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.20%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.65%) GIS
9 3 (1.65%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (1.65%) OLTP
9 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (20.33%) Git
2 36 (19.78%) JIRA
3 32 (17.58%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.14%) GitLab
5 8 (4.40%) JUnit
5 8 (4.40%) Selenium
6 4 (2.20%) Toad
7 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.10%) Gatling
8 2 (1.10%) Maven
8 2 (1.10%) Mockito
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.10%) TestPartner
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.55%) Deequ
General
1 67 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.03%) Finance
4 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.65%) Marketing
7 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.10%) Back Office
8 2 (1.10%) Electronics
8 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.10%) Local Government
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (9.34%) Analyst
1 17 (9.34%) Release Manager
2 16 (8.79%) Data Engineer
3 14 (7.69%) Consultant
4 10 (5.49%) Oracle Specialist
5 9 (4.95%) DBA
5 9 (4.95%) Lead
5 9 (4.95%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (4.40%) Monitoring Engineer
6 8 (4.40%) Project Manager
6 8 (4.40%) Senior
7 7 (3.85%) Architect
7 7 (3.85%) Oracle Project Manager
7 7 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.30%) Data Architect
8 6 (3.30%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (3.30%) SAS Engineer
8 6 (3.30%) Test Analyst
8 6 (3.30%) Test Specialist
9 5 (2.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (4.95%) Flash
2 9 (4.95%) REST
3 6 (3.30%) Spring
3 6 (3.30%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.75%) JSON
4 5 (2.75%) pytest
4 5 (2.75%) XML
5 4 (2.20%) Middleware
5 4 (2.20%) Playwright
6 3 (1.65%) .NET
6 3 (1.65%) Kafka
6 3 (1.65%) React
6 3 (1.65%) SOAP
7 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.10%) GraalVM
7 2 (1.10%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.10%) OpenID
7 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
1 9 (4.95%) Replication
2 7 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.30%) SCADA
4 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.55%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.38%) Linux
2 22 (12.09%) Windows
3 20 (10.99%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.36%) Analytics
2 60 (32.97%) Agile
3 56 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 55 (30.22%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (25.82%) Data Integration
6 47 (25.82%) DevOps
7 45 (24.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (24.18%) Scrum
9 42 (23.08%) Test Automation
10 38 (20.88%) ETL
11 35 (19.23%) Data Modelling
12 34 (18.68%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (18.68%) Migration
13 32 (17.58%) Test Strategy
14 29 (15.93%) Deployment Automation
15 27 (14.84%) Data Virtualisation
16 25 (13.74%) Data Analytics
17 24 (13.19%) Validation
18 23 (12.64%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 76 (41.76%) SQL
2 16 (8.79%) Java
2 16 (8.79%) Python
3 8 (4.40%) PL/SQL
4 6 (3.30%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.10%) Scala
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) Bicep
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) COBOL
8 1 (0.55%) Korn
8 1 (0.55%) Perl
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 73 (40.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.75%) Degree
4 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) ACCA
5 3 (1.65%) CIMA
6 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.10%) CCNP
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) ISEB
6 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.10%) OCP
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CCNA
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.55%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.59%) SLA
3 8 (4.40%) GDPR
4 6 (3.30%) QA
5 4 (2.20%) PMO
6 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.55%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (20.88%) Docker
2 9 (4.95%) GPFS
2 9 (4.95%) NFS
2 9 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.95%) vSphere
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.95%) vRealize
3 3 (1.65%) Grafana
3 3 (1.65%) Kibana
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (1.10%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (17.58%) Talend
2 28 (15.38%) Denodo
3 24 (13.19%) Cisco
4 22 (12.09%) Microsoft
5 18 (9.89%) SAP
6 15 (8.24%) Dynatrace
6 15 (8.24%) IBM
6 15 (8.24%) Splunk
7 14 (7.69%) AppDynamics
8 10 (5.49%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.95%) VMware
10 7 (3.85%) Informatica
11 4 (2.20%) Adobe
12 3 (1.65%) Databricks
12 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.65%) webMethods
12 3 (1.65%) Workday
13 2 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
13 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.10%) UiPath