Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 5 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.65% 2.14% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 9.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £351 £454 -
25th Percentile £398 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% - -
75th Percentile £563 £538 -
90th Percentile £615 £544 -
Scotland median daily rate £320 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% -5.88% -10.53%

All Database & BI Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 135 153 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.58% 23.39% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 87 82
10th Percentile £355 £420 £363
25th Percentile £409 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -8.40%
75th Percentile £494 £528 £538
90th Percentile £575 £581 £634
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -44.03%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Edinburgh

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Commvault