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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 95
Rank change year-on-year -18 +45 -41
Contract jobs citing Oracle 74 63 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.22% 3.77% 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 7.30% 8.42% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 41 40
10th Percentile £300 £350 £299
25th Percentile £413 £475 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £514
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.92% +2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £625 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £41.36 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% - -
75th Percentile £74.68 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.87% +16.92% -58.40%

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 1,014 748 1,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.43% 44.74% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 468 801
10th Percentile £263 £216 £198
25th Percentile £399 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £514 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +2.24% -4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £625
90th Percentile £725 £686 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 71 182
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.71
25th Percentile £19.86 £18.51 £36.25
Median hourly rate £51.37 £36.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -24.21% -21.75%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -26 20 £550 +1.20% 11
Dorset +5 16 £425 +51.88% 4
Wiltshire -20 15 £425 -26.09% 9
Gloucestershire -4 9 £603 +9.64% 8
Somerset -12 6 £550 - 2
Devon -14 5 £413 +65.00% 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 4 (5.41%) IIS
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.35%) InDesign
4 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) NetSuite
2 6 (8.11%) NEC Housing
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (5.41%) Maximo
5 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.35%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (1.35%) iTrent
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (1.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.22%) Azure
2 11 (14.86%) AWS
3 9 (12.16%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.05%) GCP
6 3 (4.05%) npm
7 2 (2.70%) IaaS
7 2 (2.70%) OCI
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.35%) Figma
8 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) Intacct
8 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) AMQP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.76%) MySQL
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.41%) Power BI
4 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (4.05%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.70%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.35%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.35%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (13.51%) JIRA
2 6 (8.11%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (5.41%) Git
3 4 (5.41%) Maven
4 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.70%) JUnit
5 2 (2.70%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.35%) Ant
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.35%) JBehave
6 1 (1.35%) MSI
6 1 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.35%) TestNG
6 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 23 (31.08%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.11%) General Ledger
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Back Office
6 3 (4.05%) Local Government
7 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Aviation
8 1 (1.35%) Billing
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Developer
2 7 (9.46%) Consultant
2 7 (9.46%) Lead
3 6 (8.11%) DBA
3 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Database Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Integration Manager
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (5.41%) Architect
5 4 (5.41%) Implementation Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Lead Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) NetSuite Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Senior
5 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.05%) ERP Architect
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (10.81%) Middleware
3 7 (9.46%) REST
4 5 (6.76%) JSON
4 5 (6.76%) SOAP
4 5 (6.76%) Spring
4 5 (6.76%) XML
5 4 (5.41%) JDBC
6 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.35%) .NET
7 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.35%) Blazor
7 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.35%) GeoJSON
7 1 (1.35%) ODBC
7 1 (1.35%) pytest
7 1 (1.35%) React
7 1 (1.35%) Web Services
7 1 (1.35%) XSD
7 1 (1.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.05%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.35%) LIMS
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
3 5 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.05%) Solaris
5 3 (4.05%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (17.57%) ERP
3 12 (16.22%) Agile
4 11 (14.86%) Change Management
5 10 (13.51%) DevOps
6 9 (12.16%) Analytics
6 9 (12.16%) Change Control
7 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
7 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.81%) Workflow
8 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (8.11%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (8.11%) Microservices
9 6 (8.11%) Migration
10 5 (6.76%) PRINCE2
10 5 (6.76%) Software Engineering
10 5 (6.76%) Technical Debt
10 5 (6.76%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) SQL
2 14 (18.92%) Java
2 14 (18.92%) PL/SQL
3 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) Python
5 2 (2.70%) C#
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Bicep
6 1 (1.35%) C++
6 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.35%) VB
6 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.46%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) ACCA
5 4 (5.41%) CIMA
5 4 (5.41%) PMP
6 3 (4.05%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.35%) ECDL
7 1 (1.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (1.35%) IFRS
2 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.35%) PMO
2 1 (1.35%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.41%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.05%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 4 (5.41%) Ansible
2 4 (5.41%) Data Guard
3 3 (4.05%) Grafana
3 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) SAP
3 6 (8.11%) NEC
4 4 (5.41%) webMethods
4 4 (5.41%) Workday
5 3 (4.05%) IBM
5 3 (4.05%) VMware
6 2 (2.70%) Cerner
7 1 (1.35%) Adobe
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) IFS
7 1 (1.35%) Qualys
7 1 (1.35%) Sage
7 1 (1.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.35%) Tenable
7 1 (1.35%) Thales