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 8 February 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
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 46 65
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Oracle 120 85 93
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.48% 4.52% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.47% 9.78% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 57 60
10th Percentile - £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £641
90th Percentile £617 £738 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £65.47 - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £74.68 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.78% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £41.70 £45.88
% change year-on-year +37.89% -9.11% -26.59%

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 962 869 1,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 35.95% 46.22% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 530 859
10th Percentile £225 £215 £213
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £694 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 35 159
10th Percentile £18.22 £12.59 £14.54
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.76 £36.88
Median hourly rate £38.94 £58.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +19.05% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.66 £71.28
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% +1.50% -6.25%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +27 61 £475 -10.59% 12
Bristol -11 21 £475 -32.14% 3
Dorset +16 16 £425 +6.31% 10
Wiltshire -41 10 £545 -3.11% 4
Devon +7 4 £513 -14.58% 2
Somerset -6 4 £638 +2.00% 1
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 (10.83%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle SCM
3 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.67%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.67%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.83%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.83%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.00%) Azure
2 36 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (15.83%) OCI
4 15 (12.50%) AWS
5 10 (8.33%) Lucidchart
6 9 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.83%) npm
8 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) AMQP
2 2 (1.67%) DNS
2 2 (1.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.17%) Oracle Database
1 11 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.67%) MySQL
2 8 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (4.17%) Power BI
4 5 (4.17%) Star Schema
5 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.50%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.67%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 39 (32.50%) Oracle APEX
2 11 (9.17%) Git
3 8 (6.67%) JIRA
3 8 (6.67%) Maven
4 6 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.17%) DBeaver
6 4 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.67%) JUnit
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.83%) Ant
9 1 (0.83%) GitLab
9 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.83%) JBehave
9 1 (0.83%) Postman
9 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.83%) TestNG
General
1 67 (55.83%) Social Skills
2 34 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (22.50%) Finance
4 13 (10.83%) Manufacturing
5 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.33%) Back Office
7 3 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (34.17%) Developer
2 35 (29.17%) Senior
3 34 (28.33%) Senior Developer
4 10 (8.33%) Lead
4 10 (8.33%) Technical Writer
5 9 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Analyst
6 7 (5.83%) Applications Support
6 7 (5.83%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Consultant
6 7 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) DBA
7 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Architect
8 5 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Database Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Oracle Consultant
8 5 (4.17%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 4 (3.33%) REST
3 4 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.67%) Django
4 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.67%) Middleware
4 2 (1.67%) React
4 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.83%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Kafka
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.83%) pytest
5 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.83%) SOAP
5 1 (0.83%) XML
5 1 (0.83%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
1 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.00%) Replication
3 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) LIMS
6 1 (0.83%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.00%) Windows
4 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.00%) Agile
2 39 (32.50%) DevOps
3 35 (29.17%) Validation
4 31 (25.83%) Scrum
5 30 (25.00%) ERP
6 29 (24.17%) Collaborative Working
7 27 (22.50%) Requirements Analysis
7 27 (22.50%) Software Delivery
7 27 (22.50%) Web Application Development
8 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
10 15 (12.50%) Change Control
10 15 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 12 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.33%) Analytics
13 9 (7.50%) Data Governance
13 9 (7.50%) Microservices
13 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 53 (44.17%) SQL
2 41 (34.17%) PL/SQL
3 32 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.00%) Java
5 11 (9.17%) Python
6 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 65 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 49 (40.83%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.83%) Degree
4 13 (10.83%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) MCSA
5 3 (2.50%) MCSE
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) OCA
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.83%) ACCA
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
6 1 (0.83%) ECDL
6 1 (0.83%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) PMO
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (10.83%) Terraform
2 12 (10.00%) Ansible
3 7 (5.83%) Grafana
4 4 (3.33%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.67%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.83%) SAP
3 6 (5.00%) NEC
4 5 (4.17%) Workday
5 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.50%) Veeam
5 3 (2.50%) VMware
6 2 (1.67%) Cerner
6 2 (1.67%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.67%) PTC
7 1 (0.83%) IFS
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Thales