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 16 December 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
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 132 94 106
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.70% 4.47% 3.55%
As % of the Vendors category 13.92% 9.81% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 65 79
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £675
90th Percentile £660 £738 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.71
25th Percentile £56.25 - £17.42
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £40.40
75th Percentile £58.75 - £64.55
90th Percentile - - £64.82
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +38.89% -54.24% -1.67%

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 948 958 1,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.95% 45.53% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 582 829
10th Percentile £263 £223 £249
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £638
90th Percentile £725 £706 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 48 119
10th Percentile £11.90 £12.50 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.87 £32.56 £46.66
Median hourly rate £23.54 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.79% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £40.33 £70.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £69.73 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.43% +73.88%

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 16 December 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
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 16 December 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 +29 74 £475 +5.56% 22
Bristol +2 32 £475 -29.63% 11
Dorset +16 8 £352 -11.93% 12
Wiltshire -44 8 £598 +8.64% 8
Devon +11 4 £513 -14.58% 14
Somerset -3 4 £645 +3.20% 7
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 (9.85%) Confluence
2 7 (5.30%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (7.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Oracle SCM
2 8 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.79%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (1.52%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.76%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.76%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.85%) Azure
2 36 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (21.21%) OCI
4 15 (11.36%) AWS
5 10 (7.58%) Lucidchart
6 8 (6.06%) npm
7 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.76%) Boomi
10 1 (0.76%) GCP
10 1 (0.76%) IaaS
10 1 (0.76%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.06%) AMQP
2 2 (1.52%) DNS
2 2 (1.52%) SMTP
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.30%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.30%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (5.30%) Power BI
4 7 (5.30%) Star Schema
5 6 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.03%) InfluxDB
6 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.52%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 37 (28.03%) Oracle APEX
2 12 (9.09%) Git
3 8 (6.06%) JIRA
3 8 (6.06%) Maven
4 7 (5.30%) DBeaver
5 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.76%) GitLab
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Postman
8 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.76%) TestNG
General
1 63 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.58%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (28.03%) Finance
4 18 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.06%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.27%) Back Office
7 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (32.58%) Developer
2 35 (26.52%) Senior
3 34 (25.76%) Senior Developer
4 16 (12.12%) Analyst
5 13 (9.85%) Lead
6 12 (9.09%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.58%) Technical Writer
8 8 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Quality Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Product Owner
11 5 (3.79%) Commercial Officer
11 5 (3.79%) DBA
12 4 (3.03%) Architect
12 4 (3.03%) Oracle Consultant
12 4 (3.03%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (2.27%) REST
4 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.52%) Django
4 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.52%) React
5 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) HTML
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
5 1 (0.76%) pytest
5 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.06%) Replication
5 7 (5.30%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.52%) NHS
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Clustering
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) LIMS
8 1 (0.76%) PACS
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.85%) Linux
2 8 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.55%) CentOS
3 6 (4.55%) Windows
4 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.36%) Agile
2 42 (31.82%) DevOps
3 38 (28.79%) ERP
4 36 (27.27%) Validation
5 31 (23.48%) Scrum
6 29 (21.97%) Collaborative Working
7 27 (20.45%) Requirements Analysis
7 27 (20.45%) Software Delivery
7 27 (20.45%) Web Application Development
8 21 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.39%) CI/CD
10 18 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 16 (12.12%) Knowledge Transfer
12 13 (9.85%) Change Control
13 10 (7.58%) Data Governance
14 9 (6.82%) Analytics
14 9 (6.82%) Decision-Making
14 9 (6.82%) Inventory Management
14 9 (6.82%) Master Data Management
14 9 (6.82%) Supply Chain Planning
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.39%) SQL
2 40 (30.30%) PL/SQL
3 34 (25.76%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.61%) Python
5 9 (6.82%) Java
6 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.52%) C
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 65 (49.24%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.15%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.12%) Degree
4 8 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) OCA
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.27%) MCSA
6 3 (2.27%) MCSE
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.76%) ACCA
8 1 (0.76%) CCSP
8 1 (0.76%) CIMA
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CISM
8 1 (0.76%) CISSP
8 1 (0.76%) ECDL
8 1 (0.76%) HND
8 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) PMO
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.85%) Terraform
2 12 (9.09%) Ansible
3 8 (6.06%) Grafana
4 3 (2.27%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.52%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.79%) NEC
3 4 (3.03%) SAP
4 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.27%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.27%) Veeam
4 3 (2.27%) VMware
5 2 (1.52%) Cerner
5 2 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.52%) PTC
5 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.52%) Workday
6 1 (0.76%) Dell
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk