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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 120 121
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 19 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.77% 0.41% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.90% 2.52% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 9
10th Percentile £340 £315 £311
25th Percentile £354 £356 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 - £538
90th Percentile £561 £423 £577
England median daily rate £438 £486 £498
% change year-on-year -9.98% -2.31% -5.24%

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 388 437 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.77% 16.44% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 308 347
10th Percentile £275 £310 £302
25th Percentile £380 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -11.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £576
90th Percentile £613 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £17.62 £20.69 £24.19
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.73 £24.47
Median hourly rate £23.00 £33.93 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year -32.21% +20.55% -19.59%
75th Percentile £33.88 £40.50 £32.05
90th Percentile £35.78 £47.34 £33.87
England median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +35.04%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +5 12 £475 +18.75% 6
East Midlands -7 6 £349 -8.46% 4
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 3 (15.79%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (10.53%) CICS
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
1 6 (31.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 6 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (26.32%) Collibra
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 3 (15.79%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) HTTPS
2 3 (15.79%) SSL
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (31.58%) Delta Lake
2 5 (26.32%) GIS
3 2 (10.53%) DB2
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
2 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
2 2 (10.53%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) REST Assured
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Administrator
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Support
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Support
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) JPA
2 3 (15.79%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (15.79%) RAML
2 3 (15.79%) React
2 3 (15.79%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Batch
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) IoT
1 5 (26.32%) SCADA
2 4 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.79%) State Machine
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
4 2 (10.53%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Unix
2 4 (21.05%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
3 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Data Mapping
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (21.05%) High Availability
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
5 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
5 4 (21.05%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) API Development
6 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) Bicep
5 2 (10.53%) COBOL
5 2 (10.53%) JCL
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) OCP
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (26.32%) GDPR
3 4 (21.05%) SLA
4 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli
1 4 (21.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) SAP
3 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) Informatica
5 4 (21.05%) IBM
5 4 (21.05%) VMware