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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 61 63
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.06% 1.62% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.71% 8.13% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £505 £560 £506
25th Percentile £513 £640 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £685 £548
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +25.11% +28.82%
75th Percentile £560 - £575
90th Percentile £569 - -
Scotland median daily rate £641 £599 £525
% change year-on-year +7.10% +14.05% +25.37%

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 112 123 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.24% 19.94% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 63 121
10th Percentile £406 £415 £413
25th Percentile £441 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% +6.47%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £678 £644
Scotland median daily rate £465 £470 £498
% change year-on-year -1.06% -5.53% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.75 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +56.97% +0.46% -15.22%

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 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) ClearCase
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Database Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Energy Management
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) OO
4 1 (8.33%) OOP
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (66.67%) C
3 8 (66.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) KVM
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (8.33%) Fluentd
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Commvault
4 1 (8.33%) Delphix