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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 83 83
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 19 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.97% 0.20% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.60% 1.23% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £454 £369 £431
25th Percentile £550 £383 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £405 £505
Median % change year-on-year +60.49% -19.80% -18.22%
75th Percentile £675 £428 £519
90th Percentile £688 £441 £526
North West median daily rate £650 £353 £454
% change year-on-year +84.40% -22.31% -23.09%

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 339 163 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 17.28% 16.30% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 105 136
10th Percentile £375 £321 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year - +2.43% -7.25%
75th Percentile £577 £545 £530
90th Percentile £650 £593 £613
North West median daily rate £476 £447 £464
% change year-on-year +6.49% -3.61% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 1 6
10th Percentile £28.50 - £28.50
25th Percentile £29.96 £76.25 £37.81
Median hourly rate £61.25 £82.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.76% +44.74% +43.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.75 £69.50
90th Percentile £80.90 - £71.13
North West median hourly rate £60.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +86.15% -31.58% +17.88%

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 8 August 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 2 (10.53%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) 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 4 (21.05%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) Flyway
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) JDeveloper
2 2 (10.53%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (21.05%) Military
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) 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 2 (10.53%) Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Business Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) E-Business Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior DBA
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
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 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (42.11%) High Availability
2 8 (42.11%) Migration
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Security Hardening
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Optimisation
6 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (15.79%) Database Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) Cash Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) Open Source
7 2 (10.53%) Personalization
7 2 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) 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%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) Ansible
3 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle