Oracle Database Engineer Contracts in England

Oracle Database Engineer
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Engineer daily rate in England is £396, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 535 649
Rank change year-on-year +61 +114 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Database Engineer 11 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.019% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.020% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £342 - -
25th Percentile £375 £544 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -9.62% -18.75%
75th Percentile £444 £631 £675
90th Percentile £553 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £588 £563
% change year-on-year -31.91% +4.44% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Oracle Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Oracle Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database Engineer in England

Oracle Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database Engineer in England

Oracle Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database Engineer in England

Oracle Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database Engineer in England

Oracle Database Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 9 £400 -
North of England - 9 £400 -
London +32 1 £325 -44.68%
Oracle Database Engineer
UK

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Oracle Database Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Oracle Database Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (81.82%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) Finance
4 6 (54.55%) vSphere
4 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (45.45%) VMware
6 4 (36.36%) OCP
6 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (27.27%) Data Guard
7 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (27.27%) Change Management
7 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle Licensing
8 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
8 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
8 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (18.18%) Docker
8 2 (18.18%) Software Licensing
8 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (18.18%) Database Security
8 2 (18.18%) OCI
8 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 2 (18.18%) Database Migration

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Software Licensing
5 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (9.09%) Database Tuning
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) OCP
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Docker
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Data Guard
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Sybase