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 2 October 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
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 30 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 -16
Contract jobs citing Oracle 158 104 75
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 4.23% 5.28% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.93% 12.18% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 46 54
10th Percentile £413 £450 £365
25th Percentile £511 £500 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £600
90th Percentile £765 £713 £701
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 2 1
10th Percentile £17.17 £57.88 -
25th Percentile £36.75 £60.31 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £66.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +165.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55.31 £72.81 -
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.63 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £28.80
% change year-on-year +11.23% +30.23% -48.64%

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 1,222 854 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.69% 43.33% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 493 676
10th Percentile £315 £214 £220
25th Percentile £425 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £619 £634
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
England median daily rate £515 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 120 92
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.42 £26.03
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.78 £61.25
Median hourly rate £26.07 £22.57 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% -67.76% +23.92%
75th Percentile £55.31 £59.06 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £74.40
England median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +5 69 £600 +14.29% 20
Wiltshire +14 34 £600 -1.44% 21
Dorset +7 21 £540 +92.86% 21
Somerset -20 16 £760 +6.67% 9
Devon -9 8 £461 -10.00% 6
Gloucestershire -32 5 £550 -12.14% 11
Cornwall - 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 7 (4.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.63%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Oracle Payroll
2 7 (4.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (4.43%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (4.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (3.16%) SAP HR
4 4 (2.53%) Maximo
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.63%) iTrent
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.35%) AWS
2 23 (14.56%) OCI
3 22 (13.92%) Azure
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.53%) GitHub
5 4 (2.53%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.90%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.27%) IaaS
7 2 (1.27%) PaaS
7 2 (1.27%) SaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.63%) Intacct
8 1 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) SAN
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (31.01%) Oracle Database
2 18 (11.39%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.70%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (3.16%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.90%) Big Data
6 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.90%) HBase
6 3 (1.90%) MySQL
6 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.90%) Power BI
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (8.23%) JIRA
2 8 (5.06%) Git
3 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.53%) JUnit
4 4 (2.53%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.90%) Selenium
6 2 (1.27%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) GitLab
7 1 (0.63%) GoCD
7 1 (0.63%) Gradle
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (18.35%) Public Sector
2 23 (14.56%) Finance
3 22 (13.92%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.33%) General Ledger
5 8 (5.06%) Military
6 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.43%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.80%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.53%) Aviation
8 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) French Language
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (29.75%) Developer
2 36 (22.78%) Oracle Developer
3 25 (15.82%) Lead
4 20 (12.66%) Software Developer
5 19 (12.03%) Database Manager
6 16 (10.13%) DBA
7 12 (7.59%) Database Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Consultant
8 11 (6.96%) SQL DBA
9 10 (6.33%) Administrator
9 10 (6.33%) DV Cleared DBA
10 9 (5.70%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (3.80%) Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Implementation Consultant
12 5 (3.16%) Lead Consultant
12 5 (3.16%) NetSuite Consultant
12 5 (3.16%) Oracle Consultant
12 5 (3.16%) Transformation Consultant
13 4 (2.53%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.06%) REST
3 7 (4.43%) SOAP
3 7 (4.43%) Spring
3 7 (4.43%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.80%) JDBC
5 4 (2.53%) JPA
5 4 (2.53%) JSON
5 4 (2.53%) Kafka
5 4 (2.53%) Middleware
5 4 (2.53%) React
5 4 (2.53%) Terraform
5 4 (2.53%) XML
6 3 (1.90%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.90%) Web Services
7 2 (1.27%) HTML
7 2 (1.27%) HTML5
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 2 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.53%) Replication
5 3 (1.90%) Clustering
5 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Licensing
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Windows
2 20 (12.66%) Linux
3 9 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.06%) Solaris
4 8 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.90%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) AIX
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (12.66%) Software Engineering
4 19 (12.03%) Change Management
4 19 (12.03%) Migration
5 18 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.49%) DevOps
7 14 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (8.23%) Agile
8 13 (8.23%) Analytics
9 12 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (7.59%) Validation
10 11 (6.96%) CI/CD
10 11 (6.96%) Data Migration
10 11 (6.96%) Information Security
10 11 (6.96%) SDLC
10 11 (6.96%) Workflow
11 10 (6.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (5.70%) Decision-Making
12 9 (5.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 54 (34.18%) SQL
2 23 (14.56%) PL/SQL
3 14 (8.86%) Java
4 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.53%) Python
6 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.27%) Bash
7 2 (1.27%) PHP
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.63%) VB
8 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (52.53%) Security Cleared
2 64 (40.51%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.82%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) ACCA
4 9 (5.70%) CIMA
5 6 (3.80%) CCNA
5 6 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.80%) Degree
5 6 (3.80%) PMP
6 5 (3.16%) CIPD
7 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.27%) MCSE
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.16%) GDPR
2 5 (3.16%) ISO 9000
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) IFRS
3 2 (1.27%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.59%) Docker
2 6 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) NFS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (2.53%) OPNET
3 4 (2.53%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.90%) Ansible
4 3 (1.90%) Argo
5 2 (1.27%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.27%) BMC Performance Manager
5 2 (1.27%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.27%) Grafana
5 2 (1.27%) Istio
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.27%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.06%) SAP
3 7 (4.43%) webMethods
3 7 (4.43%) Workday
4 5 (3.16%) VMware
5 4 (2.53%) IBM
5 4 (2.53%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.90%) Splunk
7 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.27%) BMC
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.63%) PTC
8 1 (0.63%) Sage
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) Veritas