Oracle Contracts 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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 71 72 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.84% 3.51% 6.59%
As % of the Vendors category 10.29% 8.05% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 80
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £403 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +8.00%
75th Percentile £556 £618 £600
90th Percentile £638 £703 £731
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year - +116.67% -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £56.80
% change year-on-year +44.23% -54.22% +62.27%

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 690 894 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.07% 43.52% 48.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 588 684
10th Percentile £200 £250 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £698 £700
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 24
10th Percentile £13.78 £11.08 £13.06
25th Percentile £22.10 £13.81 £15.98
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.39 £21.60
Median % change year-on-year +63.18% -14.89% +28.97%
75th Percentile £42.93 £28.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £88.05
England median hourly rate £27.00 £24.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +12.50% -25.70% +50.23%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the West Midlands

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the West Midlands

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the West Midlands

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 25 June 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
Warwickshire +16 29 £450 +5.88% 22
Birmingham -15 15 £563 +18.42% 22
Shropshire +4 10 £510 +0.99% 8
Coventry +11 9 £425 -22.73% 11
Staffordshire +6 3 £296 - 15
Herefordshire - 1 £525 -
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (5.63%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.41%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (8.45%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (7.04%) SAP PM
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (4.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) OCI
3 6 (8.45%) AWS
4 5 (7.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (7.04%) Collibra
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.63%) Serverless
6 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (2.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.82%) Boomi
7 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Firewall
1 4 (5.63%) SAN
2 2 (2.82%) IPsec
3 1 (1.41%) BGP
3 1 (1.41%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.41%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.41%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) OSPF
3 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (1.41%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.41%) VLAN
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) Oracle Database
2 12 (16.90%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.04%) Delta Lake
4 5 (7.04%) GIS
4 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.63%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Power BI
6 3 (4.23%) OLTP
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.82%) DB2
7 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Git
3 2 (2.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.41%) Toad
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Electronics
7 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Law
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle Specialist
2 7 (9.86%) Senior
3 6 (8.45%) Administrator
3 6 (8.45%) Analyst
3 6 (8.45%) Lead
3 6 (8.45%) Tester
4 5 (7.04%) Architect
4 5 (7.04%) Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Consultant
5 4 (5.63%) DBA
5 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Data Migration Specialist
6 3 (4.23%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Product Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Team Leader
7 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared DBA
7 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (7.04%) Kafka
2 5 (7.04%) Middleware
3 2 (2.82%) .NET
3 2 (2.82%) Django
3 2 (2.82%) JSON
3 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 2 (2.82%) MACH
3 2 (2.82%) REST
3 2 (2.82%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.41%) OpenID
4 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) SOAP
4 1 (1.41%) Spring
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) Swagger
4 1 (1.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) SCADA
2 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.86%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.04%) IoT
6 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.41%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
2 7 (9.86%) Unix
3 4 (5.63%) AIX
3 4 (5.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (26.76%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (26.76%) ITIL
3 11 (15.49%) Agile
3 11 (15.49%) Migration
4 10 (14.08%) ERP
4 10 (14.08%) ETL
5 8 (11.27%) Project Management
5 8 (11.27%) Validation
5 8 (11.27%) Workflow
6 7 (9.86%) Change Management
6 7 (9.86%) Data Governance
6 7 (9.86%) Data Migration
6 7 (9.86%) Defect Management
6 7 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (9.86%) Scrum
6 7 (9.86%) Service Management
6 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (9.86%) System Integration Testing
6 7 (9.86%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) Python
3 8 (11.27%) Java
3 8 (11.27%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) Bicep
6 2 (2.82%) R
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) C
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) Korn
7 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.86%) Oracle Certification
2 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
3 5 (7.04%) OCP
4 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CCNA
6 1 (1.41%) CCNP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.41%) ISEB
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.41%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) SLA
2 11 (15.49%) GDPR
3 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.82%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) HP ALM
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Tivoli
2 4 (5.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (2.82%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) SAP
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) IBM
4 5 (7.04%) Databricks
4 5 (7.04%) HP
4 5 (7.04%) Informatica
4 5 (7.04%) MuleSoft
5 4 (5.63%) CyberArk
5 4 (5.63%) VMware
6 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.82%) Cognos
7 2 (2.82%) webMethods
8 1 (1.41%) Cisco
8 1 (1.41%) Civica
8 1 (1.41%) Juniper
8 1 (1.41%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.41%) Remedy
8 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.41%) Talend
8 1 (1.41%) Trillium