Oracle Database Contracts in the North West

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 122 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +36
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 7 7 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.27% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 1.83% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 25
10th Percentile £337 £378 £455
25th Percentile £340 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £448 £590
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -24.15% +7.27%
75th Percentile £538 £485 £650
90th Percentile £625 £512 £753
England median daily rate £415 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -12.61% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £83.75 £61.60 £61.30
% change year-on-year +35.96% +0.50% +44.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 317 382 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.67% 14.49% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 270 356
10th Percentile £321 £350 £325
25th Percentile £390 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £586
90th Percentile £613 £610 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 15
10th Percentile £21.02 £25.70 £28.26
25th Percentile £22.13 £37.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.74 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.74% +11.85% -5.88%
75th Percentile £47.50 £46.18 £53.99
90th Percentile £75.63 £69.15 £60.36
England median hourly rate £34.58 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -13.56% -29.76% +39.82%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the North West

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the North West

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the North West over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the North West

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the North West

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Cheshire - 4 £343 - 1
Merseyside - 2 £600 - 6
Manchester +7 1 £450 -4.76% 3
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (42.86%) Tomcat
2 2 (28.57%) CICS
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database 10g
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) SQLite
3 1 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
4 1 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) E-Business Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (14.29%) MongoDB DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) VSAM
2 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) E-business
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) COBOL
3 2 (28.57%) JCL
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft