Oracle Database Contracts in Scotland

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 74 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 46 55 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.83% 2.48% 2.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.85% 13.82% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 46
10th Percentile £274 £375 £376
25th Percentile £300 £435 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +1.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £491 £575 £488
90th Percentile £538 £578 £613
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.53% -7.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh -1 22 £490 -10.91%
Glasgow 0 11 £300 -30.23%
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire -2 1 - -
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (19.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (19.57%) Serverless
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) RDBMS
1 11 (23.91%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Git
2 9 (19.57%) JIRA
2 9 (19.57%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (19.57%) PVCS
2 9 (19.57%) Subversion
3 6 (13.04%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
General
1 16 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.57%) Back Office
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 19 (41.30%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (17.39%) Analyst
4 7 (15.22%) DBA
4 7 (15.22%) Lead
5 6 (13.04%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) SQL DBA
10 1 (2.17%) AWS Architect
10 1 (2.17%) Oracle ETL Developer
10 1 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Java EE
2 5 (10.87%) Node.js
2 5 (10.87%) REST
3 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) React
5 1 (2.17%) Next.js
5 1 (2.17%) Playwright
5 1 (2.17%) Spring
5 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.17%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (6.52%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Solaris
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) ETL
2 13 (28.26%) Data Modelling
3 11 (23.91%) Agile
3 11 (23.91%) DevOps
4 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 9 (19.57%) Computer Science
5 9 (19.57%) Migration
5 9 (19.57%) Project Planning
5 9 (19.57%) SDLC
5 9 (19.57%) Technical Analysis
5 9 (19.57%) Unit Testing
6 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.39%) ETL Development
7 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (13.04%) Data Design
9 5 (10.87%) API Development
9 5 (10.87%) Data Engineering
9 5 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 38 (82.61%) SQL
2 29 (63.04%) PL/SQL
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 9 (19.57%) C
4 9 (19.57%) ProC
5 6 (13.04%) Python
6 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) JCL
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.17%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Commvault