Oracle Contract Job Trends in the South West

Oracle
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 January 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
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 45 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 123 88 102
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.06% 4.50% 3.47%
As % of the Vendors category 13.17% 9.92% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 59 71
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £446 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £574 £700 £675
90th Percentile £657 £738 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.23
25th Percentile £56.25 - £61.03
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £63.53
75th Percentile £58.75 - £64.85
90th Percentile - - £64.94
England median hourly rate £41.86 £27.00 £59.57
% change year-on-year +55.02% -54.68% -4.69%

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 934 887 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 38.45% 45.37% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 537 783
10th Percentile £225 £215 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £618 £619 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 40 124
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.50 £18.08
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £23.91 £62.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -61.74% +10.64% -13.09%
75th Percentile £55.19 £70.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.20 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% -32.13% +53.45%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Oracle job vacancy trend in the South West

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the South West over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 January 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
Gloucestershire +29 70 £475 -5.00% 18
Bristol -8 27 £475 -30.91% 7
Dorset +11 9 £500 +25.00% 12
Wiltshire -31 8 £598 +8.64% 7
Devon +8 4 £513 -14.58% 6
Somerset -5 3 £575 -8.00% 5
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (10.57%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (8.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.63%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Oracle SCM
2 6 (4.88%) NEC Housing
3 5 (4.07%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (1.63%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.81%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.81%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) Azure
2 37 (30.08%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (21.95%) OCI
4 16 (13.01%) AWS
5 10 (8.13%) Lucidchart
6 7 (5.69%) npm
7 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.07%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.25%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.63%) PaaS
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.81%) GCP
11 1 (0.81%) IaaS
11 1 (0.81%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) AMQP
2 2 (1.63%) DNS
2 2 (1.63%) SMTP
3 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.50%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (5.69%) MySQL
4 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (4.07%) Power BI
5 5 (4.07%) Star Schema
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.44%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.63%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 39 (31.71%) Oracle APEX
2 11 (8.94%) Git
3 8 (6.50%) JIRA
4 7 (5.69%) Maven
5 5 (4.07%) DBeaver
6 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.81%) GitLab
9 1 (0.81%) JUnit
9 1 (0.81%) Postman
9 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 66 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 38 (30.89%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (26.02%) Finance
4 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.69%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.25%) Back Office
8 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.63%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (33.33%) Developer
2 35 (28.46%) Senior
3 34 (27.64%) Senior Developer
4 12 (9.76%) Analyst
5 10 (8.13%) Lead
5 10 (8.13%) Technical Writer
6 9 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.69%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Consultant
8 7 (5.69%) DBA
8 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Oracle Consultant
10 5 (4.07%) Quality Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Governance Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (3.25%) REST
4 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.63%) Django
4 2 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.63%) React
5 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) Kafka
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.81%) pytest
5 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) SOAP
5 1 (0.81%) XML
5 1 (0.81%) XSD
5 1 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.88%) Replication
5 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) LIMS
7 1 (0.81%) PACS
7 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.40%) Agile
2 43 (34.96%) DevOps
3 36 (29.27%) Validation
4 35 (28.46%) ERP
5 31 (25.20%) Scrum
6 29 (23.58%) Collaborative Working
7 27 (21.95%) Requirements Analysis
7 27 (21.95%) Software Delivery
7 27 (21.95%) Web Application Development
8 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.82%) Knowledge Transfer
10 15 (12.20%) CI/CD
10 15 (12.20%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.57%) Change Control
12 10 (8.13%) Data Governance
13 9 (7.32%) Decision-Making
13 9 (7.32%) Inventory Management
13 9 (7.32%) Master Data Management
13 9 (7.32%) Microservices
13 9 (7.32%) Supply Chain Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.09%) SQL
2 43 (34.96%) PL/SQL
3 33 (26.83%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.94%) Python
5 8 (6.50%) Java
6 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) C#
Qualifications
1 63 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 49 (39.84%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.63%) Degree
4 10 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) OCA
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.44%) MCSA
6 3 (2.44%) MCSE
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.63%) OCP
8 1 (0.81%) ACCA
8 1 (0.81%) CCSP
8 1 (0.81%) CIMA
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CISM
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) ECDL
8 1 (0.81%) HND
8 1 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.25%) Docker
3 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.76%) Terraform
2 11 (8.94%) Ansible
3 7 (5.69%) Grafana
4 5 (4.07%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.63%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.88%) NEC
3 4 (3.25%) SAP
4 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.44%) Veeam
4 3 (2.44%) VMware
5 2 (1.63%) Cerner
5 2 (1.63%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.63%) PTC
5 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.63%) Workday
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) Splunk