Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.071% - 0.064%
As % of the System Software category 0.65% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 153 137 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.91% 13.31% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 95 162
10th Percentile £311 £181 £248
25th Percentile £370 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £451
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.28% -9.75%
75th Percentile £583 £557 £573
90th Percentile £638 £588 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £35.75 - £14.98
25th Percentile £59.38 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £85.00 £29.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +193.10% +61.11% -70.85%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - £35.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year +93.23% +24.66% -59.55%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle RAC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in Manchester

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle