Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.74% - 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.76% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £232 - -
25th Percentile £272 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 - £525
75th Percentile £445 - £538
90th Percentile £493 - -
South West median daily rate £463 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -22.92% +4.35% +9.52%

All Database & BI Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 17 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 14.78% 29.89% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 28
10th Percentile £290 £450 £349
25th Percentile £375 £469 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £800
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% -37.50% +52.38%
75th Percentile £425 £675 £825
90th Percentile £475 £688 -
South West median daily rate £550 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -1.35% -3.04% +4.55%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Dorset

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Dorset over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Dorset

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Bournemouth - 2 £352 -
Oracle Database
South West

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NEC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle