Oracle Database 12c Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database 12c
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Oracle Database 12c skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 483 501
Rank change year-on-year -42 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 11 4 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.015% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.081% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 35
10th Percentile £400 - £400
25th Percentile £408 £613 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £625 £470
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +32.98% -14.55%
75th Percentile £473 £638 £509
90th Percentile £547 - £538
UK median daily rate £438 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -30.00% +35.14% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.70
Median hourly rate - - £62.05
75th Percentile - - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +24.10%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Oracle Database 12c 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,322 4,965 5,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 18.33% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,708 3,296 4,220
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 70 130
10th Percentile £18.93 £19.78 £19.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £25.20
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.93 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

Oracle Database 12c
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database 12c relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Oracle Database 12c job vacancy trend in England

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database 12c.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database 12c in England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database 12c in England

Oracle Database 12c
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database 12c.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Database 12c
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database 12c within the England region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 4 £431 -
London -9 2 £514 -17.80%
South West -10 2 £463 -
Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
North West - 1 £375 - 1
North of England - 1 £375 - 2
Oracle Database 12c
UK

Oracle Database 12c
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) WebLogic
2 2 (18.18%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) OCI
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (18.18%) SQLPlus
6 1 (9.09%) Metadata
6 1 (9.09%) OLAP
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PL/SQL
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) OCA
1 2 (18.18%) OCP
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle