Oracle Contracts 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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 85 51
Rank change year-on-year +47 -34 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 86 66 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.55% 2.05% 3.77%
As % of the Vendors category 10.49% 4.77% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 49 85
10th Percentile £405 £313 £353
25th Percentile £513 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -2.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £588
90th Percentile £711 £650 £704
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £59.06 - £14.57
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.00 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +50.06% -68.30%
75th Percentile £67.19 - £29.34
90th Percentile £73.38 - £47.74
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year +44.23% -55.62% +67.40%

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 820 1,383 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.36% 42.90% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 886 969
10th Percentile £220 £213 £275
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 192 71
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.54 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £39.38 £39.55
Median hourly rate £31.13 £57.47 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -45.84% +0.24% +27.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +0.60% -22.84% +47.89%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the South West

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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
Bristol +22 35 £550 -3.93% 38
Wiltshire +30 21 £575 +7.98% 2
Gloucestershire +30 14 £588 +30.67% 37
Somerset +11 8 £713 - 10
Devon +9 3 £250 - 5
Dorset +4 3 £280 -45.37% 2
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (10.47%) Confluence
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.16%) Apache
4 1 (1.16%) Camunda
4 1 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle SCM
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.12%) AWS
2 12 (13.95%) OCI
3 6 (6.98%) Azure
4 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.65%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.33%) Apple Pay
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.33%) GitHub
6 2 (2.33%) Google Pay
6 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.33%) npm
6 2 (2.33%) SaaS
6 2 (2.33%) Serverless
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.16%) Boomi
7 1 (1.16%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) AMQP
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) Oracle Database
2 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.47%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.65%) MySQL
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (4.65%) Power BI
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (3.49%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.33%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Git
2 12 (13.95%) Bitbucket
3 11 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.47%) JIRA
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.33%) DBeaver
6 2 (2.33%) GitLab
6 2 (2.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (22.09%) Finance
1 19 (22.09%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.49%) Military
5 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.33%) General Ledger
5 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Electronics
6 1 (1.16%) Law
6 1 (1.16%) Local Government
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Police
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Analyst
2 13 (15.12%) Lead
3 11 (12.79%) Developer
4 8 (9.30%) Consultant
4 8 (9.30%) Oracle Consultant
5 7 (8.14%) DBA
5 7 (8.14%) Oracle Analyst
5 7 (8.14%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (8.14%) Senior
6 4 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Commercial Officer
6 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Administrator
7 3 (3.49%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Java Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Oracle Financials Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) REST
2 13 (15.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (12.79%) SOAP
4 4 (4.65%) CSS
4 4 (4.65%) HTML
5 3 (3.49%) React
6 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.33%) Django
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.16%) .NET
7 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.16%) JPA
7 1 (1.16%) Kafka
7 1 (1.16%) LDAP
7 1 (1.16%) Middleware
7 1 (1.16%) ODBC
7 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.16%) Spring
7 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.81%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.33%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) PKI
6 2 (2.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.16%) FMCG
7 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (24.42%) Windows
2 17 (19.77%) Linux
3 13 (15.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.33%) CentOS
5 2 (2.33%) Solaris
5 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.16%) Unix
6 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Agile
2 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.60%) ERP
4 12 (13.95%) Validation
5 11 (12.79%) Configuration Management
5 11 (12.79%) Deployment Automation
5 11 (12.79%) Service Management
6 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
6 10 (11.63%) NsoIT
6 10 (11.63%) Reverse Engineering
7 9 (10.47%) Migration
7 9 (10.47%) System Testing
8 7 (8.14%) DevOps
8 7 (8.14%) ETL
8 7 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (8.14%) Test Automation
9 6 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (5.81%) Line Management
10 5 (5.81%) Software Engineering
10 5 (5.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) Python
2 17 (19.77%) SQL
3 12 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.63%) Bash
5 9 (10.47%) Java
6 5 (5.81%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) R
9 1 (1.16%) VB
9 1 (1.16%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.16%) VB6
9 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (52.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) OCA
3 11 (12.79%) Oracle Certification
3 11 (12.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (11.63%) CCNP
4 10 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.63%) RHCA
4 10 (11.63%) RHCE
5 9 (10.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.65%) Degree
7 1 (1.16%) ACCA
7 1 (1.16%) CIMA
7 1 (1.16%) IIBA
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
7 1 (1.16%) MCSE
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) GAAP
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS
3 1 (1.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.49%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) Ansible
2 11 (12.79%) Puppet
2 11 (12.79%) vCenter Server
3 10 (11.63%) Progress Chef
4 8 (9.30%) Data Guard
4 8 (9.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (6.98%) Terraform
6 3 (3.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.33%) Grafana
8 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) VMware
2 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.63%) Cisco
4 9 (10.47%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.81%) SAP
6 4 (4.65%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) Apple
7 2 (2.33%) Google
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.16%) Dell
8 1 (1.16%) Infor
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Talend
8 1 (1.16%) Veeam
8 1 (1.16%) Workday