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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 82
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 18 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.90% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.73% 2.56% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 3
10th Percentile £448 £378 £431
25th Percentile £625 £405 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.89% -17.04%
75th Percentile £675 £466 £519
90th Percentile £688 £475 £526
North West median daily rate £650 £420 £471
% change year-on-year +54.76% -10.88% -20.13%

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 314 156 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.72% 15.62% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 106 122
10th Percentile £397 £329 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -1.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £539 £536
90th Percentile £675 £588 £599
North West median daily rate £500 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +14.94% -3.39% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - £25.90
25th Percentile £29.96 £76.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £82.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +100.00% +3.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £77.00 - £63.45
North West median hourly rate £57.75 £30.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +88.51% -12.47% -14.63%

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 September 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 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database 12c
2 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
2 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.56%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JDeveloper
3 1 (5.56%) Flyway
3 1 (5.56%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (16.67%) Military
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) DBA
2 12 (66.67%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (22.22%) Database Specialist
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (16.67%) Administrator
6 2 (11.11%) Business Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) E-Business Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps Administrator
7 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Senior DBA
7 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
1 4 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (38.89%) High Availability
2 7 (38.89%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Optimisation
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Cash Management
5 2 (11.11%) Database Tuning
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Personalization
5 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
5 2 (11.11%) Workflow
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle