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 11 July 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 +53 -41
Contract jobs citing Oracle 107 86 66
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.97% 4.56% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 10.51% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 49 49
10th Percentile £406 £405 £313
25th Percentile £503 £513 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £736 £650 £588
90th Percentile £765 £711 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 1
10th Percentile £19.25 £55.13 -
25th Percentile £26.46 £59.06 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £62.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.26% +150.00% +50.06%
75th Percentile £74.68 £67.19 -
90th Percentile - £73.38 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +44.23% -55.62%

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 1,150 818 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.92% 43.40% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 486 891
10th Percentile £300 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 97 190
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.13 £14.53
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.87 £38.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £30.25 £56.97
Median % change year-on-year +68.60% -46.90% -0.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -31.51%

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 11 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the South West over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the South West

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 11 July 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
Bristol -17 34 £600 +9.09% 13
Wiltshire -10 20 £525 -8.70% 9
Somerset -12 17 £755 +5.96%
Dorset +6 16 £540 +92.86% 1
Devon -13 10 £461 +84.50% 2
Gloucestershire -19 4 £605 +2.89% 3
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 6 (5.61%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) IIS
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (10.28%) NetSuite
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (8.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (3.74%) Maximo
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.93%) iTrent
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.17%) AWS
2 24 (22.43%) Azure
3 16 (14.95%) OCI
4 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.80%) GCP
5 3 (2.80%) GitHub
5 3 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.80%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.87%) IaaS
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.93%) Figma
7 1 (0.93%) Intacct
7 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) HTTP
1 1 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.17%) Oracle Database
2 18 (16.82%) SQL Server
3 14 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.67%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.74%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (3.74%) Power BI
6 3 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.80%) Big Data
6 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.80%) HBase
6 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) JIRA
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) Git
3 5 (4.67%) JUnit
4 4 (3.74%) Liquibase
4 4 (3.74%) Selenium
5 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.87%) Maven
6 1 (0.93%) Ant
6 1 (0.93%) GitLab
6 1 (0.93%) Gradle
6 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.93%) JBehave
6 1 (0.93%) MSI
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 25 (23.36%) Finance
2 18 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 16 (14.95%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.21%) General Ledger
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Aviation
5 3 (2.80%) Military
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.87%) Marketing
6 2 (1.87%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (27.10%) Developer
2 24 (22.43%) Lead
3 17 (15.89%) Oracle Developer
4 16 (14.95%) DBA
5 11 (10.28%) Consultant
5 11 (10.28%) SQL DBA
6 10 (9.35%) DV Cleared DBA
6 10 (9.35%) Oracle DBA
7 9 (8.41%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.48%) Implementation Consultant
9 7 (6.54%) Lead Consultant
9 7 (6.54%) NetSuite Consultant
10 6 (5.61%) Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Transformation Consultant
11 5 (4.67%) Database Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Database Manager
11 5 (4.67%) Oracle Consultant
11 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (9.35%) Spring
3 9 (8.41%) Spring Boot
4 8 (7.48%) Middleware
5 7 (6.54%) REST
6 5 (4.67%) JDBC
6 5 (4.67%) SOAP
7 4 (3.74%) JSON
7 4 (3.74%) XML
8 3 (2.80%) Kafka
9 2 (1.87%) .NET
9 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.87%) JPA
9 2 (1.87%) Loki
9 2 (1.87%) ModSecurity
9 2 (1.87%) Node.js
9 2 (1.87%) Spring WebFlux
9 2 (1.87%) Swagger
9 2 (1.87%) Web Services
10 1 (0.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.80%) Clustering
3 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.87%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.50%) Windows
2 16 (14.95%) Linux
3 11 (10.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.61%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.67%) Solaris
5 5 (4.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (15.89%) Change Management
2 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (12.15%) Agile
3 13 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (11.21%) ERP
4 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
4 12 (11.21%) Workflow
5 11 (10.28%) DevOps
5 11 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (9.35%) High Availability
7 9 (8.41%) Analytics
7 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.41%) Migration
7 9 (8.41%) PRINCE2
8 8 (7.48%) CI/CD
8 8 (7.48%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (6.54%) Budgeting
9 7 (6.54%) Database Security
9 7 (6.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.25%) SQL
2 16 (14.95%) Java
2 16 (14.95%) PL/SQL
3 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.74%) Python
5 3 (2.80%) Bash
5 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.87%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.93%) VB
7 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (47.66%) Security Cleared
2 33 (30.84%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.76%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.35%) ACCA
4 10 (9.35%) CIMA
5 8 (7.48%) PMP
6 5 (4.67%) CCNA
6 5 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.67%) Degree
7 3 (2.80%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.93%) MCSE
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) ISO 9000
2 3 (2.80%) IFRS
2 3 (2.80%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (5.61%) Terraform
4 4 (3.74%) OPNET
4 4 (3.74%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.80%) Ansible
5 3 (2.80%) Argo
5 3 (2.80%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.87%) Grafana
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) SAP
3 5 (4.67%) webMethods
4 4 (3.74%) IBM
4 4 (3.74%) Workday
5 3 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Adobe
7 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) IFS
7 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.93%) Qualys
7 1 (0.93%) Sage
7 1 (0.93%) Tenable
7 1 (0.93%) Thales