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 22 February 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 44 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 -27
Contract jobs citing Oracle 113 81 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.09% 4.49% 2.41%
As % of the Vendors category 11.72% 9.54% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 54 47
10th Percentile - £404 £372
25th Percentile £450 £513 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +10.58% -0.95%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £581
90th Percentile £621 £738 £665
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
Median hourly rate £74.68 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.11% - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +103.85% -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 964 849 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 34.91% 47.04% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 535 830
10th Percentile £266 £215 £219
25th Percentile £407 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.79%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 35 169
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.84 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.04 £25.26 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.22 £72.66 £70.65
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £27.51
% change year-on-year -23.15% +12.70% -17.27%

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 22 February 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
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 22 February 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 +23 57 £475 -9.52% 13
Bristol -10 18 £475 -29.63% 5
Dorset - 16 £425 - 7
Wiltshire -43 10 £545 -5.22% 1
Devon +6 5 £513 -14.58% 2
Somerset -8 3 £638 +2.00% 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 13 (11.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (8.85%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (5.31%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle SCM
2 2 (1.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.88%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.88%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.17%) Azure
2 36 (31.86%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.81%) OCI
4 14 (12.39%) AWS
5 10 (8.85%) Lucidchart
6 9 (7.96%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.19%) npm
8 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.65%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.88%) GCP
10 1 (0.88%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) AMQP
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Oracle Database
2 9 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.19%) MySQL
4 6 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.31%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.42%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.65%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.65%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (2.65%) Power BI
7 3 (2.65%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.77%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.77%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 39 (34.51%) Oracle APEX
2 11 (9.73%) Git
3 8 (7.08%) JIRA
3 8 (7.08%) Maven
4 6 (5.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.65%) DBeaver
7 2 (1.77%) JUnit
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.88%) Ant
8 1 (0.88%) GitLab
8 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.88%) JBehave
8 1 (0.88%) Postman
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.88%) TestNG
General
1 63 (55.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (20.35%) Finance
4 12 (10.62%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.54%) Back Office
7 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Developer
2 35 (30.97%) Senior
3 34 (30.09%) Senior Developer
4 10 (8.85%) Technical Writer
5 8 (7.08%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (7.08%) Lead
6 7 (6.19%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.19%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Consultant
7 6 (5.31%) DBA
7 6 (5.31%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Architect
8 5 (4.42%) Database Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (3.54%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.54%) REST
2 4 (3.54%) Spring
3 3 (2.65%) Middleware
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.77%) Django
4 2 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.77%) React
4 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.88%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.88%) JSON
5 1 (0.88%) Kafka
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.88%) pytest
5 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.88%) SOAP
5 1 (0.88%) XML
5 1 (0.88%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.54%) Replication
4 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) NHS
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) LIMS
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.96%) Linux
2 6 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.42%) Windows
4 4 (3.54%) CentOS
4 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.71%) Agile
2 39 (34.51%) DevOps
3 34 (30.09%) Validation
4 32 (28.32%) Scrum
5 29 (25.66%) Collaborative Working
6 28 (24.78%) ERP
7 27 (23.89%) Requirements Analysis
7 27 (23.89%) Software Delivery
7 27 (23.89%) Web Application Development
8 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.27%) Change Control
10 14 (12.39%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (11.50%) Test Automation
12 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
13 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
13 10 (8.85%) Microservices
14 9 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (6.19%) Analytics
15 7 (6.19%) Data Governance
15 7 (6.19%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.13%) SQL
2 41 (36.28%) PL/SQL
3 32 (28.32%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.62%) Java
5 9 (7.96%) Python
6 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 66 (58.41%) Security Cleared
2 49 (43.36%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.81%) Degree
4 14 (12.39%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) MCSA
5 3 (2.65%) MCSE
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.65%) OCA
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.88%) ACCA
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CIMA
6 1 (0.88%) ECDL
6 1 (0.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
3 1 (0.88%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (11.50%) Terraform
2 12 (10.62%) Ansible
3 7 (6.19%) Grafana
4 4 (3.54%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.77%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.19%) SAP
3 6 (5.31%) NEC
4 4 (3.54%) Workday
5 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.65%) Veeam
5 3 (2.65%) VMware
6 2 (1.77%) Cerner
7 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.88%) IFS
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) PTC
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Thales