Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.57% - 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £334 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 - -
75th Percentile £464 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
North West median daily rate £398 £471 £590
% change year-on-year -15.65% -20.13% +7.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 78 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.13% 15.18% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 57 35
10th Percentile £305 £356 £265
25th Percentile £339 £409 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £491
90th Percentile £488 £639 £559
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -5.56% -6.15% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £46.75
% change year-on-year -25.73% -11.76% -1.45%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Cheshire

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Cheshire

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Knutsford - 10 £383 - 1
Oracle Database
North West

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (80.00%) JBoss
2 7 (70.00%) Apache
2 7 (70.00%) IIS
2 7 (70.00%) iPlanet
2 7 (70.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (70.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (20.00%) CICS
4 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (70.00%) CA Release Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (30.00%) Maven
4 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (20.00%) Selenium
5 1 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) LDAP
1 7 (70.00%) OAuth
1 7 (70.00%) OpenID
1 7 (70.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Groovy
1 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) COBOL
3 2 (20.00%) JCL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 6 (60.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (70.00%) CA Wily
2 6 (60.00%) Progress Chef
2 6 (60.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) AppDynamics
3 7 (70.00%) Broadcom
3 7 (70.00%) IBM
3 7 (70.00%) Splunk