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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 +37
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 11 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 0.49% 1.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.24% 3.15% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £456 - £456
25th Percentile £467 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £685 £480
Median % change year-on-year -25.18% +42.86% +6.56%
75th Percentile £538 - £529
90th Percentile £549 - £541
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +5.56%

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 152 127 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.82% 15.49% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 78 154
10th Percentile £419 £400 £375
25th Percentile £452 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £543 £537 £538
90th Percentile £623 £685 £600
Scotland median daily rate £494 £463 £480
% change year-on-year +6.70% -3.65% -2.04%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database 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 and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) ClearCase
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Security Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DBA
4 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Database Security
1 2 (18.18%) Migration
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
2 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) Observability
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum
2 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Shell Script
3 7 (63.64%) C
3 7 (63.64%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) KVM
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
1 1 (9.09%) Fluentd
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (63.64%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Commvault
4 1 (9.09%) Delphix