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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% - -
As % of the System Software category 5.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 - -
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
North West median daily rate £525 - -

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 226 99 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.55% 10.01% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 65 96
10th Percentile £193 £304 £278
25th Percentile £400 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £634 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £449 £500
% change year-on-year +0.33% -10.30% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £61.70 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £76.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £95.00 £82.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +166.13% +80.65%
75th Percentile £178.75 £88.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -9.99% +365.58% +1.26%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in Manchester

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Flyway
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DBA
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (66.67%) SQL DBA
4 5 (41.67%) Administrator
5 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) 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%) Public Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) AIX
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (58.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft