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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 72
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 124 96 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.38% 4.95% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 10.23% 11.90% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 47 57
10th Percentile £413 £413 £398
25th Percentile £500 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £650
90th Percentile £765 £712 £700
England median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 1
10th Percentile £19.25 £57.88 -
25th Percentile £35.21 £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £66.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +165.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £72.81 -
90th Percentile £67.81 £75.63 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +11.23% +22.59% -47.79%

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 1,212 807 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.06% 41.60% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 464 750
10th Percentile £302 £213 £220
25th Percentile £406 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £630
90th Percentile £720 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 103 111
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.56 £13.69
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £53.38
Median hourly rate £27.07 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% -73.04% +23.92%
75th Percentile £56.38 £55.33 -
90th Percentile £85.50 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.68% -16.17% -28.53%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -4 58 £600 +9.59% 29
Wiltshire +5 26 £600 +4.35% 4
Somerset -20 16 £760 +6.67%
Dorset +1 11 £540 +92.86% 11
Devon -14 8 £461 +15.31% 1
Gloucestershire -33 2 £515 -19.53% 21
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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.61%) IIS
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Oracle Payroll
2 9 (7.26%) NetSuite
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (7.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (3.23%) Maximo
4 3 (2.42%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.61%) Primavera
6 1 (0.81%) iTrent
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.58%) AWS
2 22 (17.74%) Azure
3 21 (16.94%) OCI
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.23%) GitHub
4 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.42%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.61%) IaaS
6 2 (1.61%) PaaS
6 2 (1.61%) SaaS
6 2 (1.61%) Serverless
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.81%) GCP
7 1 (0.81%) Intacct
7 1 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) SAN
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.39%) Oracle Database
2 16 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (4.03%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.42%) Big Data
5 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.42%) HBase
5 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.42%) Power BI
6 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 10 (8.06%) JIRA
2 6 (4.84%) Git
2 6 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.23%) JUnit
3 4 (3.23%) Liquibase
4 3 (2.42%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) GoCD
5 1 (0.81%) Gradle
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.68%) General Ledger
5 4 (3.23%) Aviation
5 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Military
6 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Billing
8 1 (0.81%) Local Government
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (35.48%) Developer
2 33 (26.61%) Oracle Developer
3 24 (19.35%) Lead
4 18 (14.52%) Software Developer
5 15 (12.10%) DBA
6 13 (10.48%) Consultant
7 11 (8.87%) SQL DBA
8 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared DBA
9 9 (7.26%) Database Manager
9 9 (7.26%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (6.45%) Implementation Consultant
11 7 (5.65%) Lead Consultant
11 7 (5.65%) NetSuite Consultant
11 7 (5.65%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (4.84%) Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Transformation Consultant
13 4 (3.23%) Administrator
13 4 (3.23%) Integration Manager
13 4 (3.23%) Java Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.65%) REST
2 7 (5.65%) Spring
2 7 (5.65%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.03%) JDBC
3 5 (4.03%) SOAP
4 4 (3.23%) JSON
4 4 (3.23%) Kafka
4 4 (3.23%) Middleware
4 4 (3.23%) Terraform
4 4 (3.23%) XML
5 3 (2.42%) JPA
5 3 (2.42%) React
5 3 (2.42%) Web Services
6 2 (1.61%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.61%) Loki
6 2 (1.61%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.61%) Node.js
6 2 (1.61%) Spring WebFlux
6 2 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.23%) Replication
3 3 (2.42%) Clustering
4 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.74%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Linux
3 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.84%) Solaris
5 6 (4.84%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.61%) Unix
8 1 (0.81%) AIX
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (14.52%) Change Management
2 18 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (13.71%) Software Engineering
4 15 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.29%) Migration
6 12 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (8.87%) DevOps
7 11 (8.87%) Workflow
8 10 (8.06%) Agile
8 10 (8.06%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.06%) PRINCE2
8 10 (8.06%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (7.26%) Information Security
10 8 (6.45%) AI
10 8 (6.45%) High Availability
11 7 (5.65%) Data Migration
11 7 (5.65%) Database Security
11 7 (5.65%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.10%) SQL
2 20 (16.13%) PL/SQL
3 14 (11.29%) Java
4 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.03%) Python
6 3 (2.42%) Bash
7 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.61%) PHP
7 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) VB
8 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (50.81%) Security Cleared
2 45 (36.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.32%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) ACCA
4 10 (8.06%) CIMA
5 8 (6.45%) PMP
6 6 (4.84%) CCNA
6 6 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.23%) Degree
8 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.61%) MCSE
9 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) ISO 9000
2 3 (2.42%) IFRS
2 3 (2.42%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
3 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) NFS
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (3.23%) OPNET
3 4 (3.23%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) Argo
5 2 (1.61%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.61%) Grafana
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.81%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.81%) BMC Performance Manager
6 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.81%) Istio
6 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.81%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.03%) webMethods
3 4 (3.23%) IBM
3 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.23%) VMware
4 3 (2.42%) SAP
5 2 (1.61%) Cisco
5 2 (1.61%) Splunk
5 2 (1.61%) Workday
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.81%) BMC
6 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.81%) Qualys
6 1 (0.81%) Sage
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.81%) Tenable
6 1 (0.81%) Veritas