Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 147 146
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 +46
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 34 17 41
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.47% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 3.34% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 25
10th Percentile £316 £431 £363
25th Percentile £361 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £487 £567 £626
90th Percentile £610 £623 £675
England median daily rate £450 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -18.18% +14.58% -8.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 747 509 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.13% 14.06% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 318 477
10th Percentile £316 £325 £300
25th Percentile £371 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -2.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £39.20 £22.72 £20.38
25th Percentile £53.75 £23.48 £25.41
Median hourly rate £64.50 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +134.55% -40.45% -28.95%
75th Percentile £81.50 £49.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £85.20 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the North of England

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the North of England

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Yorkshire -32 19 £465 -17.88% 7
North West -14 15 £450 -4.51% 15
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (29.41%) Apache
1 10 (29.41%) IIS
1 10 (29.41%) iPlanet
1 10 (29.41%) JBoss
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.94%) OCI
4 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.94%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (58.82%) Git
2 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (29.41%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (29.41%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (23.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) DBA
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (20.59%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (2.94%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Incident Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) FastAPI
1 10 (29.41%) LDAP
1 10 (29.41%) OAuth
1 10 (29.41%) OpenID
1 10 (29.41%) SAML
2 1 (2.94%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.94%) J2EE
2 1 (2.94%) JPA
2 1 (2.94%) JWT
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) FMCG
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (73.53%) Linux
2 13 (38.24%) Unix
2 13 (38.24%) Windows
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) DevOps
2 16 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (41.18%) Task Automation
4 12 (35.29%) Agile
5 10 (29.41%) API Integration
6 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 8 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Problem Management
10 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
11 2 (5.88%) Change Management
11 2 (5.88%) Data Protection
11 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 2 (5.88%) Line Management
11 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
11 2 (5.88%) Service Delivery
12 1 (2.94%) Scrum
12 1 (2.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Shell Script
2 14 (41.18%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) Groovy
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.82%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 8 (23.53%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Ansible
1 10 (29.41%) CA Single Sign-On
1 10 (29.41%) CA Wily
1 10 (29.41%) Data Guard
1 10 (29.41%) yum
2 8 (23.53%) Progress Chef
2 8 (23.53%) Tivoli
3 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.94%) Control-M
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (29.41%) AppDynamics
3 10 (29.41%) Broadcom
3 10 (29.41%) IBM
3 10 (29.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Apple
4 1 (2.94%) EMC
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Sybase