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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.76% - 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.01% - 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £493 - £370
25th Percentile £513 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.95%
75th Percentile £675 - £444
90th Percentile £676 - £470
North West median daily rate £600 £600 £470
% change year-on-year - +27.66% -21.67%

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 299 206 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.97% 21.37% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 156 199
10th Percentile £341 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £417 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.65% -0.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 4
10th Percentile £26.23 - £35.45
25th Percentile £49.38 £24.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £24.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +185.71% -64.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.75 £74.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.55 £78.45
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £25.43 £44.74
% change year-on-year +175.27% -43.16% -20.67%

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 29 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Flyway
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DBA
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Database Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Programmer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP