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 17 October 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 70 55
Rank change year-on-year +34 -15 -12
Contract jobs citing Oracle 104 76 118
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 5.21% 3.05% 3.72%
As % of the Vendors category 11.97% 6.78% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 79
10th Percentile £456 £366 £406
25th Percentile £500 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £591 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -5.96% -3.11% +0.45%
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% -62.50%
75th Percentile £72.81 - £64.40
90th Percentile £75.63 - £64.76
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.00 £63.53
% change year-on-year +38.89% -57.50% +27.05%

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 869 1,121 1,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.52% 44.93% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 641 853
10th Percentile £220 £250 £275
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 92 113
10th Percentile £15.00 £26.03 £19.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.44 £46.92
Median hourly rate £22.63 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.67% +27.27% -3.13%
75th Percentile £39.89 - £65.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.30% -20.54% +82.68%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +36 46 £626 +35.35% 13
Bristol +6 33 £525 +7.69% 23
Somerset +8 8 £713 - 5
Wiltshire -8 7 £598 +8.14% 3
Devon +10 6 £513 -14.58% 2
Dorset -2 2 - - 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 11 (10.58%) Confluence
2 7 (6.73%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (2.88%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.96%) Camunda
4 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.62%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.92%) Windchill
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle SCM
2 9 (8.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (1.92%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) OCI
2 18 (17.31%) AWS
3 14 (13.46%) Azure
4 10 (9.62%) Lucidchart
5 7 (6.73%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.85%) npm
7 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.92%) GitHub
9 2 (1.92%) SaaS
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.96%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.96%) Boomi
10 1 (0.96%) GCP
10 1 (0.96%) IaaS
10 1 (0.96%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) AMQP
2 2 (1.92%) DNS
2 2 (1.92%) SMTP
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle ODI
3 7 (6.73%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (5.77%) Power BI
4 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.77%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.81%) MySQL
5 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.92%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.92%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.96%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) DBeaver
2 5 (4.81%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (39.42%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (32.69%) Finance
3 32 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 25 (24.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (13.46%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.69%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Military
9 2 (1.92%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (14.42%) Analyst
1 15 (14.42%) Lead
2 13 (12.50%) Developer
3 12 (11.54%) Consultant
3 12 (11.54%) Data Analyst
4 11 (10.58%) Oracle Consultant
5 10 (9.62%) Technical Writer
6 9 (8.65%) DBA
6 9 (8.65%) Oracle DBA
7 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Commercial Officer
8 6 (5.77%) Product Owner
8 6 (5.77%) Quality Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Senior
9 4 (3.85%) Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Governance Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Master Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (2.88%) CSS
3 3 (2.88%) HTML
3 3 (2.88%) React
3 3 (2.88%) REST
4 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.92%) Django
5 1 (0.96%) .NET
5 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.96%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.73%) Replication
4 5 (4.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.96%) PKI
8 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Windows
2 9 (8.65%) Linux
3 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.85%) CentOS
5 1 (0.96%) Solaris
5 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.50%) ERP
2 17 (16.35%) Agile
2 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
4 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 12 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
6 10 (9.62%) Data Governance
6 10 (9.62%) Supply Chain Planning
6 10 (9.62%) Validation
7 9 (8.65%) Change Control
7 9 (8.65%) ETL
7 9 (8.65%) Inventory Management
7 9 (8.65%) Master Data Management
8 8 (7.69%) Analytics
8 8 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.73%) DevOps
9 7 (6.73%) Migration
10 6 (5.77%) Data Management
10 6 (5.77%) Dimensional Modelling
11 5 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.15%) SQL
2 14 (13.46%) Python
3 8 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.77%) Java
4 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.92%) C
6 2 (1.92%) Perl
6 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.96%) Bicep
7 1 (0.96%) VB
7 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.96%) VB6
7 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) OCA
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.92%) OCP
7 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.96%) ACCA
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCSP
7 1 (0.96%) CIMA
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) MCSA
7 1 (0.96%) MCSE
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) SSCP
7 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Data Guard
1 9 (8.65%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (6.73%) Terraform
3 6 (5.77%) Ansible
4 4 (3.85%) Grafana
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) SAP
3 3 (2.88%) Workday
4 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.92%) PTC
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) Dell
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.96%) Talend
5 1 (0.96%) Veeam