Oracle Database Contracts in Scotland

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 113 115
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 54 55 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.43% 1.93% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.57% 9.08% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 39 35
10th Percentile £375 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £504
90th Percentile £578 £625 £585
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +7.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 398 606 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.89% 21.29% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 483 388
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +2.92% +12.94%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £559
90th Percentile £658 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +17 28 £550 +18.92% 3
Glasgow +9 13 £430 +13.76% 2
West Lothian -1 3 £580 -7.20%
Perthshire - 3 £475 -
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 -
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
1 2 (3.70%) JBoss
1 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.70%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
2 12 (22.22%) Serverless
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon S3
4 8 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (5.56%) IaaS
7 3 (5.56%) OCI
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) Azure
8 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) Metadata
2 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Discoverer
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.85%) Informix
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Oracle APEX
2 6 (11.11%) Maven
3 4 (7.41%) Git
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) JUnit
4 2 (3.70%) Subversion
5 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (42.59%) Public Sector
3 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Back Office
4 5 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Finance
5 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) DBA
4 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Database Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.56%) IT Support
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Forms Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior DBA
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Design Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) React
2 14 (25.93%) REST
3 13 (24.07%) CSS
4 12 (22.22%) AWS CDK
5 10 (18.52%) Spring
6 9 (16.67%) HTML
6 9 (16.67%) Node.js
7 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
8 5 (9.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 5 (9.26%) SOAP
9 4 (7.41%) Kafka
9 4 (7.41%) Spring Batch
9 4 (7.41%) Web Services
10 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 2 (3.70%) Java EE
10 2 (3.70%) JPA
10 2 (3.70%) JSTL
10 2 (3.70%) STL
10 2 (3.70%) XML
10 2 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Tandem
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
1 10 (18.52%) Unix
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) AIX
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (25.93%) Agile
3 14 (25.93%) Migration
4 12 (22.22%) Microservices
5 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (20.37%) SQL Optimisation
6 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 7 (12.96%) TDD
8 6 (11.11%) Scrum
8 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 5 (9.26%) API Management
9 5 (9.26%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.26%) Security Architecture
9 5 (9.26%) Service Management
9 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.26%) Storage Management
10 4 (7.41%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) SQL
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 15 (27.78%) Shell Script
4 14 (25.93%) PL/SQL
5 12 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 11 (20.37%) Bash
6 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.96%) Python
8 1 (1.85%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (9.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (12.96%) Data Guard
3 5 (9.26%) Terraform
4 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Grafana
5 1 (1.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (1.85%) Commvault
2 1 (1.85%) VMware