Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.96% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.14% 2.94% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 - -
75th Percentile £614 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £487
% change year-on-year -3.15% +6.06% -0.66%

All Database & BI Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 28 34 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 13.40% 23.13% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 14
10th Percentile - £250 £313
25th Percentile £400 £363 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £470 £494
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -4.81% +9.72%
75th Percentile £656 £538 £500
90th Percentile £740 £624 £504
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.04
25th Percentile - - £16.09
Median hourly rate - £22.48 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - +39.45% +19.41%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -29.08%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Northern Ireland

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 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
County Antrim +1 2 £553 - 1
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle