Oracle Database Contracts in the Midlands

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 123 101
Rank change year-on-year +25 -22 +34
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 13 10 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.36% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.59% 2.40% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 26
10th Percentile £394 £336 £400
25th Percentile £453 £356 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £363 £537
Median % change year-on-year +33.52% -32.43% +19.22%
75th Percentile £638 £377 £549
90th Percentile - £400 £601
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the Midlands

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the Midlands

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the Midlands

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the Midlands

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +24 11 £493 +23.25% 3
East Midlands +3 2 £396 +9.10% 1
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.69%) Introscope
2 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Support
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Support
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) J2EE
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Security Posture
1 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) AIX
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) ITSM
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (30.77%) Storage Management
3 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
4 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (7.69%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) CyberArk
3 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 3 (23.08%) Talend
5 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk