Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 80 93
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 19 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.98% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.51% 0.60% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile £462 - £422
25th Percentile £519 - £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -4.76% -23.48%
75th Percentile £675 - £507
90th Percentile £688 - £521
North West median daily rate £650 £356 £448
% change year-on-year +82.58% -20.45% -20.09%

All Database & BI Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 345 168 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 17.87% 17.28% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 113 174
10th Percentile £368 £330 £375
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £613 £633
North West median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 1 7
10th Percentile £28.50 - £22.15
25th Percentile £29.97 £76.25 £28.63
Median hourly rate £61.25 £82.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.76% +73.68% +19.35%
75th Percentile £75.75 £88.75 £70.63
90th Percentile £90.00 - £75.90
North West median hourly rate £60.50 £28.65 £43.62
% change year-on-year +111.17% -34.32% +8.25%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Manchester

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Manchester

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (10.53%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) OCI
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) RDBMS
2 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (10.53%) MySQL
5 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) Flyway
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) JDeveloper
2 2 (10.53%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Military
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) DBA
2 12 (63.16%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (21.05%) Database Specialist
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
6 2 (10.53%) Business Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) E-Business Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior DBA
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Administrator
7 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (42.11%) Migration
3 7 (36.84%) High Availability
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (21.05%) Security Hardening
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Optimisation
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 2 (10.53%) Accounts Payable
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Observability
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Debt
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle