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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 500 523
Rank change year-on-year -98 +23 +13
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 25 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.055% 0.037% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 4
10th Percentile £472 £400 £538
25th Percentile £513 £431 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -26.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £641
90th Percentile - £700 £646
UK median daily rate £600 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +31.58%

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 6,948 4,878 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.92% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,352 4,194
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 80 84
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.18 £15.29
25th Percentile £23.35 £30.55 £19.96
Median hourly rate £38.38 £40.25 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +16.77% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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
North of England -65 11 £650 +73.33%
North West -40 7 £650 +73.33%
London -86 6 £539 +19.67% 3
South East -69 5 £625 -10.71% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £630 -
West Midlands -48 1 - -
Midlands -49 1 - -
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 3 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (4.00%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (24.00%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.00%) Db2
5 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.00%) SQLite
5 2 (8.00%) SQLPlus
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.00%) OLAP
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
1 3 (12.00%) Toad
2 1 (4.00%) Flyway
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Developer 2000
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Advertising
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) DBA
2 15 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared DBA
4 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 3 (12.00%) Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared DBA
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
6 2 (8.00%) Support Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Streams
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Unix
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Solaris
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.00%) AIX
6 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) High Availability
2 11 (44.00%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (36.00%) Migration
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.00%) Database Security
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Database Migration
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (12.00%) Database Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (12.00%) ITIL
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (8.00%) Logical Data Model
8 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.00%) Performance Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Korn
5 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (32.00%) Data Guard
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (12.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) VMware