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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 81 75
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.60% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.08% 2.45% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £409 £378 £431
25th Percentile £421 £405 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.89% -17.04%
75th Percentile £681 £466 £519
90th Percentile £688 £475 £526
North West median daily rate £625 £420 £471
% change year-on-year +48.81% -10.88% -21.46%

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 294 163 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.63% 16.30% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 116 114
10th Percentile £382 £317 £375
25th Percentile £418 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -5.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £536 £550
90th Percentile £691 £592 £600
North West median daily rate £500 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +14.94% -3.33% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 6
10th Percentile £28.50 - £28.50
25th Percentile £29.96 - £37.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 - £67.38
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £30.64 £56.25
% change year-on-year +63.21% -45.54% +7.14%

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 7 October 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 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (8.33%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) JDeveloper
General
1 3 (25.00%) Military
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DBA
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 3 (25.00%) Administrator
5 2 (16.67%) Business Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Database Specialist
5 2 (16.67%) E-Business Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
5 2 (16.67%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
6 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) XML
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Cash Management
4 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Personalization
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Data Science
5 1 (8.33%) Database Security
5 1 (8.33%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat