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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 -6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 146 102 79
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.89% 5.21% 2.98%
As % of the Vendors category 11.86% 12.56% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 46 58
10th Percentile £409 £450 £385
25th Percentile £500 £503 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +5.26% -12.92%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £650
90th Percentile £765 £713 £701
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 1
10th Percentile £17.17 £57.88 -
25th Percentile £34.45 £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £66.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +165.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55.31 £72.81 -
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.63 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £34.55
% change year-on-year +11.23% +8.55% -39.74%

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 1,231 812 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.83% 41.49% 44.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 469 717
10th Percentile £310 £213 £240
25th Percentile £413 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £724 £675 £700
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 105 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.78 £21.20
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £61.25
Median hourly rate £26.14 £22.63 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -67.67% +23.92%
75th Percentile £56.22 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £70.00 £74.18
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +2 66 £600 +9.59% 12
Wiltshire +10 32 £600 -1.44% 11
Dorset +2 17 £540 +92.86% 18
Somerset -21 15 £760 +6.67% 5
Devon -15 8 £461 -10.00% 3
Gloucestershire -33 4 £488 -22.12% 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 6 (4.11%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.37%) IIS
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Spreadsheet
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Oracle Payroll
2 9 (6.16%) NetSuite
2 9 (6.16%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (6.16%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (2.74%) Maximo
3 4 (2.74%) SAP HR
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.37%) Primavera
6 1 (0.68%) iTrent
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.18%) AWS
2 22 (15.07%) OCI
3 21 (14.38%) Azure
4 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.74%) GitHub
5 4 (2.74%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.05%) Serverless
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.37%) IaaS
7 2 (1.37%) PaaS
7 2 (1.37%) SaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) DNS
1 1 (0.68%) SAN
1 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.40%) Oracle Database
2 17 (11.64%) SQL Server
3 15 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.16%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.42%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.05%) Big Data
6 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.05%) HBase
6 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.05%) Power BI
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.37%) MySQL
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) JIRA
2 8 (5.48%) Git
3 7 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.74%) JUnit
4 4 (2.74%) Liquibase
5 3 (2.05%) Selenium
6 2 (1.37%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) GitLab
7 1 (0.68%) GoCD
7 1 (0.68%) Gradle
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (19.18%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.12%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.22%) General Ledger
5 7 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.79%) Military
6 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.42%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.74%) Aviation
9 3 (2.05%) Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) French Language
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (31.51%) Developer
2 35 (23.97%) Oracle Developer
3 25 (17.12%) Lead
4 19 (13.01%) Software Developer
5 16 (10.96%) DBA
6 14 (9.59%) Database Manager
7 13 (8.90%) Consultant
8 11 (7.53%) SQL DBA
9 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared DBA
10 9 (6.16%) Administrator
10 9 (6.16%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (5.48%) Database Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Implementation Consultant
11 8 (5.48%) Oracle Database Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Lead Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) NetSuite Consultant
12 7 (4.79%) Oracle Consultant
13 6 (4.11%) Architect
13 6 (4.11%) Transformation Consultant
14 4 (2.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.48%) REST
3 7 (4.79%) Spring
3 7 (4.79%) Spring Boot
4 6 (4.11%) JDBC
4 6 (4.11%) SOAP
5 4 (2.74%) JPA
5 4 (2.74%) JSON
5 4 (2.74%) Kafka
5 4 (2.74%) Middleware
5 4 (2.74%) React
5 4 (2.74%) Terraform
5 4 (2.74%) XML
6 3 (2.05%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.05%) Web Services
7 2 (1.37%) HTML
7 2 (1.37%) HTML5
7 2 (1.37%) Loki
7 2 (1.37%) Node.js
7 2 (1.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) Cloud Native
1 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.74%) Replication
4 3 (2.05%) Clustering
4 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.75%) Windows
2 19 (13.01%) Linux
3 9 (6.16%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.79%) Solaris
5 7 (4.79%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.05%) Unix
8 1 (0.68%) AIX
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (13.01%) Change Management
3 19 (13.01%) Software Engineering
4 18 (12.33%) Migration
5 17 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (9.59%) DevOps
7 13 (8.90%) Agile
8 12 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (8.22%) Workflow
9 11 (7.53%) Analytics
9 11 (7.53%) CI/CD
9 11 (7.53%) Information Security
9 11 (7.53%) PRINCE2
9 11 (7.53%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (6.85%) Data Migration
10 10 (6.85%) Validation
11 9 (6.16%) AI
11 9 (6.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.62%) SQL
2 22 (15.07%) PL/SQL
3 14 (9.59%) Java
4 5 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.74%) Python
6 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.37%) Bash
7 2 (1.37%) PHP
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.68%) VB
8 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 57 (39.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.75%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.85%) ACCA
4 10 (6.85%) CIMA
5 8 (5.48%) PMP
6 6 (4.11%) CCNA
6 6 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.42%) Degree
8 4 (2.74%) CIPD
9 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.37%) MCSE
10 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.42%) ISO 9000
3 4 (2.74%) GDPR
3 4 (2.74%) QA
4 3 (2.05%) IFRS
5 2 (1.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.53%) Docker
2 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) NFS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (2.74%) OPNET
3 4 (2.74%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Argo
5 2 (1.37%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.37%) BMC Performance Manager
5 2 (1.37%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.37%) Grafana
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.37%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
6 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.79%) SAP
3 6 (4.11%) webMethods
3 6 (4.11%) Workday
4 5 (3.42%) VMware
5 4 (2.74%) IBM
5 4 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
7 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.37%) BMC
7 2 (1.37%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) PTC
8 1 (0.68%) Sage
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Veritas