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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 17 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.99% - 0.069%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
North West median daily rate £650 £478 £470
% change year-on-year +35.98% +1.70% -21.01%

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 315 190 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.41% 21.21% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 144 197
10th Percentile £344 £376 £370
25th Percentile £400 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £624 £680
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 4
10th Percentile £33.30 - £35.45
25th Percentile £54.38 £24.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £24.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +175.51% -64.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £40.75 £74.63
90th Percentile £92.00 £69.55 £78.45
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.43 £42.50
% change year-on-year +143.81% -40.16% -14.26%

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 10 May 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 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) OCI
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Flyway
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Liquibase
2 1 (5.88%) JDeveloper
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) DBA
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 4 (23.53%) Database Specialist
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Database Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) C# Application Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) E-Business Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
1 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Migration
2 7 (41.18%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 3 (17.65%) Security Hardening
6 2 (11.76%) Build Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Database Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Debt
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle