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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 40 83
Rank change year-on-year -15 +43 -36
Contract jobs citing Oracle 98 85 74
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.36% 5.11% 2.29%
As % of the Vendors category 9.71% 10.72% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 59 47
10th Percentile £443 £400 £366
25th Percentile £450 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +11.65% -1.90%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £575
90th Percentile £625 £738 £630
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £46.97 £54.25 -
25th Percentile - £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £74.68 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.49% - -
75th Percentile - £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.21 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +60.38% -58.57%

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 1,009 793 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 34.54% 47.71% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 537 859
10th Percentile £264 £219 £208
25th Percentile £403 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 39 182
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.45 £14.36
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.13 £36.56
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.11
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +29.91% -23.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £67.84
90th Percentile £70.80 £75.00 £77.38
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +13 42 £475 -9.52% 9
Bristol -24 17 £475 -16.45% 5
Dorset - 16 £425 - 4
Wiltshire -44 10 £545 -5.22% 9
Devon +2 5 £475 +11.76% 1
Somerset -13 4 £550 -12.00% 4
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 7 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.02%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.04%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.02%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (1.02%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (16.33%) AWS
4 9 (9.18%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.12%) npm
5 6 (6.12%) OCI
6 4 (4.08%) Lucidchart
6 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.06%) GCP
7 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.02%) Figma
8 1 (1.02%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.02%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) AMQP
2 1 (1.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.02%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) Oracle Database
2 10 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.12%) MySQL
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (5.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.08%) Power BI
5 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.06%) InfluxDB
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.06%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.02%) CockroachDB
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 36 (36.73%) Oracle APEX
2 10 (10.20%) Git
3 9 (9.18%) JIRA
4 7 (7.14%) Maven
5 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.06%) DBeaver
8 2 (2.04%) JUnit
9 1 (1.02%) Ant
9 1 (1.02%) GitLab
9 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.02%) JBehave
9 1 (1.02%) MSI
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.02%) Selenium
9 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.02%) TestNG
9 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 50 (51.02%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.08%) Back Office
7 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Local Government
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Developer
2 34 (34.69%) Senior
3 33 (33.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (7.14%) Lead
5 6 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Applications Support
5 6 (6.12%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) DBA
5 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Database Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (4.08%) Technical Writer
8 3 (3.06%) Consultant
8 3 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.10%) Spring
3 4 (4.08%) Middleware
3 4 (4.08%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (3.06%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.02%) .NET
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.02%) ATL
6 1 (1.02%) Blazor
6 1 (1.02%) COM
6 1 (1.02%) GeoJSON
6 1 (1.02%) MFC
6 1 (1.02%) pytest
6 1 (1.02%) React
6 1 (1.02%) SOAP
6 1 (1.02%) XML
6 1 (1.02%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.08%) Replication
4 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) LIMS
6 1 (1.02%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Linux
2 7 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) Agile
2 38 (38.78%) DevOps
3 31 (31.63%) Scrum
3 31 (31.63%) Validation
4 29 (29.59%) Collaborative Working
5 27 (27.55%) Requirements Analysis
5 27 (27.55%) Software Delivery
5 27 (27.55%) Web Application Development
6 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.33%) ERP
8 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.20%) Change Control
9 10 (10.20%) Decision-Making
10 9 (9.18%) Analytics
10 9 (9.18%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.18%) Microservices
11 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.12%) ETL
12 6 (6.12%) Migration
12 6 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.98%) SQL
2 39 (39.80%) PL/SQL
3 30 (30.61%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.27%) Java
5 9 (9.18%) Python
6 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) C#
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
8 1 (1.02%) C++
8 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (63.27%) Security Cleared
2 45 (45.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.27%) Degree
3 13 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.06%) MCSA
4 3 (3.06%) MCSE
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.06%) OCA
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.02%) ACCA
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) CIMA
5 1 (1.02%) ECDL
5 1 (1.02%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
3 1 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Terraform
2 11 (11.22%) Ansible
3 6 (6.12%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.04%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.16%) SAP
2 6 (6.12%) NEC
3 4 (4.08%) VMware
3 4 (4.08%) Workday
4 3 (3.06%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.06%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.06%) Veeam
5 2 (2.04%) Cerner
6 1 (1.02%) Adobe
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) IFS
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) Qualys
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Tenable
6 1 (1.02%) Thales