Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Reading

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 50 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 5 41 29
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.68% 4.21% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.81% 22.91% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 29
10th Percentile £438 £617 £563
25th Percentile £469 £620 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £688
90th Percentile £618 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -21.15% +4.00% +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 104 179 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.23% 18.36% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 110 108
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £480 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +19.79%
75th Percentile £624 £656 £660
90th Percentile £664 £671 £689
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -11.39% +3.04% +19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.44% +22.73%
Berkshire median hourly rate - £63.15 £65.25
% change year-on-year - -3.22% +18.64%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Reading

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Reading over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Reading

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle BI EE
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DBA
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) OCP
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (40.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat