Oracle Database Contracts in Berkshire

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 82 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12 42 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 2.12% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.19% 16.60% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 30 17
10th Percentile £572 £359 £420
25th Percentile £624 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £645 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +12.17% +26.03%
75th Percentile £691 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 - £700
South East median daily rate £644 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% +13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £68.86
% change year-on-year - -10.54% +206.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 167 253 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.24% 12.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 185
10th Percentile £406 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Berkshire

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in Berkshire

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Berkshire

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in Berkshire

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +5 6 £650 - 4
Bracknell +17 5 £700 +86.67% 2
Slough - 1 £475 - 1
Oracle Database
South East

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) DBeaver
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Implementation Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Migration
1 10 (83.33%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 6 (50.00%) CRUD
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 6 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 4 (33.33%) Database Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) BCP
6 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) SAP