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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 4 22 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.55% 3.51% 3.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.15% 15.17% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 22
10th Percentile £538 £456 £438
25th Percentile £556 £461 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -10.91% +17.33%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £575
90th Percentile £643 £628 £684
Scotland median daily rate £550 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +33.33% -13.16% +2.70%

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 127 145 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.49% 23.16% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 85 106
10th Percentile £357 £413 £381
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.88% +0.67%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £575
90th Percentile £655 £623 £675
Scotland median daily rate £425 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.96% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
% change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Database Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Database Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JCL
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault