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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 79 86
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 6 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% 0.37% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.62% 2.11% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £380 - £363
25th Percentile £409 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £505 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% -2.88% +8.05%
75th Percentile £486 £508 £625
90th Percentile £494 - £644
North West median daily rate £450 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.79% -20.83%

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 229 190 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.26% 17.69% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 124 205
10th Percentile £313 £377 £317
25th Percentile £363 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £676 £694
North West median daily rate £430 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -9.47% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £56.88 - £57.00
25th Percentile £61.56 £24.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £71.25 £44.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.22% -31.15% -
75th Percentile £79.06 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £82.63 £67.38 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £49.34
% change year-on-year +172.83% -48.46% -24.09%

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 December 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) iPlanet
1 2 (33.33%) JBoss
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) C# Application Developer
1 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Programmer
1 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
1 2 (33.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (33.33%) Broadcom
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) Apple
4 1 (16.67%) SAP