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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 63 61
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 101 79 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.19% 2.99% 3.30%
As % of the Vendors category 12.69% 6.75% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 58 67
10th Percentile £450 £385 £405
25th Percentile £513 £435 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £713 £701 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.98% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £57.88 - -
25th Percentile £60.31 - £14.57
Median hourly rate £66.25 £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +165.00% +33.33% -63.43%
75th Percentile £72.81 - £64.40
90th Percentile £75.63 - £64.76
England median hourly rate £37.50 £34.55 £58.59
% change year-on-year +8.55% -41.04% +67.40%

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 796 1,171 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.93% 44.29% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 715 859
10th Percentile £213 £270 £263
25th Percentile £350 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £619 £636 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 97 93
10th Percentile £13.35 £15.50 £18.60
25th Percentile £18.51 £61.25 £40.85
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +23.92% +4.61%
75th Percentile £40.84 - £69.62
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.18 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Gloucestershire +41 41 £626 +39.11% 18
Bristol +6 35 £549 -15.58% 26
Somerset +10 8 £713 - 6
Wiltshire +4 8 £609 +10.68% 1
Dorset -1 4 £280 -45.37% 4
Devon +13 3 £550 - 12
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (6.93%) Confluence
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (2.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.99%) Camunda
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.98%) Windchill
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle SCM
2 10 (9.90%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.98%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.69%) OCI
2 13 (12.87%) AWS
2 13 (12.87%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) Lucidchart
3 6 (5.94%) Snowflake
4 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.97%) npm
5 3 (2.97%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.98%) Apple Pay
6 2 (1.98%) GitHub
6 2 (1.98%) Google Pay
6 2 (1.98%) SaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.99%) Boomi
7 1 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.99%) IaaS
7 1 (0.99%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) AMQP
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
2 2 (1.98%) SMTP
3 1 (0.99%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.91%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.95%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (4.95%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (4.95%) Power BI
5 5 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.95%) Star Schema
6 4 (3.96%) MySQL
6 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.97%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.98%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.99%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
1 5 (4.95%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.96%) DBeaver
3 3 (2.97%) Maven
4 2 (1.98%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.99%) JIRA
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (30.69%) Finance
3 27 (26.73%) Social Skills
4 22 (21.78%) Public Sector
5 11 (10.89%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.94%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Military
8 2 (1.98%) Banking
8 2 (1.98%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Local Government
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Police
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (16.83%) Analyst
2 15 (14.85%) Developer
3 13 (12.87%) Lead
4 12 (11.88%) Consultant
4 12 (11.88%) Data Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) Oracle Consultant
5 9 (8.91%) DBA
5 9 (8.91%) Oracle DBA
6 7 (6.93%) Senior
7 6 (5.94%) Commercial Officer
7 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Product Owner
7 6 (5.94%) Technical Writer
8 5 (4.95%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Governance Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Django Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Master Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (3.96%) React
2 4 (3.96%) REST
3 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.97%) CSS
3 3 (2.97%) Django
3 3 (2.97%) HTML
4 1 (0.99%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.99%) Kafka
4 1 (0.99%) ODBC
4 1 (0.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Onboarding
2 10 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.93%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.96%) Replication
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) FMCG
8 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.99%) PKI
8 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.88%) Windows
2 8 (7.92%) Linux
3 6 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.97%) CentOS
6 1 (0.99%) Solaris
6 1 (0.99%) Unix
6 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.63%) ERP
2 20 (19.80%) Agile
3 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (11.88%) Knowledge Transfer
5 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
5 11 (10.89%) Test Automation
6 10 (9.90%) Data Governance
6 10 (9.90%) Supply Chain Planning
7 9 (8.91%) Inventory Management
7 9 (8.91%) Master Data Management
8 8 (7.92%) Validation
9 7 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.93%) DevOps
9 7 (6.93%) ETL
9 7 (6.93%) Migration
9 7 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.94%) Data Management
10 6 (5.94%) Data Modelling
11 5 (4.95%) Analytics
11 5 (4.95%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.78%) SQL
2 14 (13.86%) Python
3 8 (7.92%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.94%) Java
4 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.98%) C
6 2 (1.98%) Perl
6 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) VB
7 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.99%) VB6
7 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) Degree
4 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.97%) OCA
5 3 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.99%) CCNP
7 1 (0.99%) CCSP
7 1 (0.99%) CISM
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) RHCA
7 1 (0.99%) RHCE
7 1 (0.99%) SSCP
7 1 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.98%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.91%) Data Guard
1 9 (8.91%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (3.96%) Ansible
2 4 (3.96%) Terraform
3 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.99%) Puppet
5 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.95%) SAP
3 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Apple
4 2 (1.98%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.98%) PTC
4 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.98%) VMware
4 2 (1.98%) Workday
5 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) Dell
5 1 (0.99%) Infor
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.99%) Talend