Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends in the North West

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.067% - 0.035%
As % of the System Software category 0.47% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -11.36% +14.58% -12.73%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 426 296 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.23% 14.55% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 191 231
10th Percentile £143 £156 £181
25th Percentile £326 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £572 £537 £550
90th Percentile £638 £580 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 29
10th Percentile £15.85 £21.05 -
25th Percentile £40.13 £21.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £68.13 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +181.76% +36.46% -61.57%
75th Percentile £74.26 £27.80 £21.50
90th Percentile £77.18 £53.25 £46.18
England median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +36.39% +36.67% -43.75%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in the North West

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
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 RAC within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
Manchester - 2 £525 -
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Flyway
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle