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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 76 78
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 5 6 29
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.47% 0.52% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.84% 3.57% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile £387 £431 £416
25th Percentile £428 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% -15.83% +36.75%
75th Percentile £486 £519 £700
90th Percentile £494 £526 £788
North West median daily rate £433 £471 £563
% change year-on-year -8.12% -16.22% +12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 176 168 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.64% 14.58% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 99 221
10th Percentile £315 £375 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £533 £565 £606
90th Percentile £612 £595 £688
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £494
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.86% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £28.50 £37.50
25th Percentile - £37.81 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £68.13
90th Percentile - £67.38 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +7.14% -23.34%

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 23 October 2025.

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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) iPlanet
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Groovy
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (40.00%) CA Wily
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (40.00%) Broadcom
3 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 1 (20.00%) Apple
4 1 (20.00%) SAP