Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 13 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 4.22% - 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 43.33% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £375
75th Percentile £663 - £388
90th Percentile £688 - -
North West median daily rate £638 £356 £448
% change year-on-year +79.07% -20.45% -24.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £39.50 - £28.00
75th Percentile £44.28 - -
90th Percentile £45.79 - -
North West median hourly rate £39.50 - £28.00

All Database & BI Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 30 17 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.74% 8.76% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 7
10th Percentile £416 £413 £237
25th Percentile £434 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +6.49% -21.12%
75th Percentile £638 £548 £625
90th Percentile £673 £575 £705
North West median daily rate £475 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +6.26% -3.87% -4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.82
25th Percentile £37.25 - £32.55
Median hourly rate £43.15 - £37.09
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.72%
75th Percentile £52.98 - £41.64
90th Percentile £64.09 - £44.36
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £44.74
% change year-on-year +116.67% -32.95% +11.03%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Blackpool - 10 £625 - 2
Preston - 2 - -
Oracle Database
North West

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) OCI
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle Exadata
1 10 (76.92%) RDBMS
1 10 (76.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Git
2 9 (69.23%) GitLab
3 3 (23.08%) ClearCase
4 1 (7.69%) Rational Robot
4 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 1 (7.69%) Military
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Senior
2 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (69.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead
6 1 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) WinForms
2 3 (23.08%) WPF
2 3 (23.08%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) COM
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) XSD
3 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) AIX
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (76.92%) Migration
2 9 (69.23%) Data Migration
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Data Encryption
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) SOLID
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Project Planning
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
1 3 (23.08%) VB
1 3 (23.08%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
1 10 (76.92%) Data Guard
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle RMAN
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle