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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +29
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.61% 0.94% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.35% 5.51% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £504 - £498
25th Percentile £509 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £685 £533
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +28.64% +18.33%
75th Percentile £543 - £546
90th Percentile £553 - £556
Scotland median daily rate £560 £630 £510
% change year-on-year -11.11% +23.53% +13.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 136 127 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.86% 17.14% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 71 127
10th Percentile £406 £413 £370
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £548
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -2.04%

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
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:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Energy Management
2 1 (10.00%) High Availability
2 1 (10.00%) Kanban
2 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) OOP
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Shell Script
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) C
2 8 (80.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) KVM
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (10.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) NetApp
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Commvault
4 1 (10.00%) Delphix