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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 46 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 5 24 31
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.80% 3.66% 3.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.13% 17.02% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 24
10th Percentile - £464 £438
25th Percentile £525 £495 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.67% +21.11%
75th Percentile £575 £649 £575
90th Percentile - £685 £676
Scotland median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +17.65%

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 121 141 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.30% 21.53% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 124
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £423 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.26% +7.18%
75th Percentile £613 £544 £575
90th Percentile £686 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £484
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.86% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.53% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
% change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%

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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) ClearCase
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Database Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Database Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Energy Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault