Oracle Database Contracts in Edinburgh

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 14 0 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.13% - 2.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.15% - 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 20
10th Percentile £454 - £456
25th Percentile £456 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £477
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.41%
75th Percentile £538 - £538
90th Percentile £544 - £572
Scotland median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +3.94%

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 153 130 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.32% 15.53% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 82 168
10th Percentile £420 £363 £390
25th Percentile £450 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.40% -1.75%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £544
90th Percentile £581 £634 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in Edinburgh

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in Edinburgh

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 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GitHub
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
1 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) ClearCase
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Database Security
2 3 (21.43%) Kanban
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Data Design
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Data Security
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Java
3 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (42.86%) C
5 5 (35.71%) PL/SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Fluentd
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) NetApp
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Commvault
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat