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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 67 111
Rank change year-on-year -5 +44 +20
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 44 56 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.69% 2.65% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.43% 14.97% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 44 35
10th Percentile £274 £332 £375
25th Percentile £300 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% - +1.93%
75th Percentile £482 £575 £494
90th Percentile £538 £585 £625
UK median daily rate £436 £486 £495
% change year-on-year -10.24% -1.82% -4.81%

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 354 374 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.65% 17.72% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 278 410
10th Percentile £287 £315 £393
25th Percentile £407 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £536 £550
90th Percentile £589 £605 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £26.17 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £36.05 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.37% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile - £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +3 19 £480 -16.52% 10
Glasgow -14 14 £300 -29.41% 13
Stirling - 2 £400 -
Perthshire +3 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 (20.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 9 (20.45%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (20.45%) Serverless
4 8 (18.18%) Azure
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) RDBMS
1 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Git
2 9 (20.45%) JIRA
2 9 (20.45%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (20.45%) PVCS
2 9 (20.45%) Subversion
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) Maven
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Back Office
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Developer
2 16 (36.36%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Analyst
4 7 (15.91%) Lead
5 6 (13.64%) DBA
5 6 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (6.82%) PL/SQL Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) SQL DBA
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) Java EE
2 3 (6.82%) React
2 3 (6.82%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.55%) Spring
3 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.27%) JAX-RS
4 1 (2.27%) JAX-WS
4 1 (2.27%) Next.js
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) OAuth
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (6.82%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) ETL
2 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 9 (20.45%) Computer Science
3 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
3 9 (20.45%) Migration
3 9 (20.45%) Project Planning
3 9 (20.45%) SDLC
3 9 (20.45%) Technical Analysis
3 9 (20.45%) Unit Testing
4 8 (18.18%) Agile
4 8 (18.18%) DevOps
4 8 (18.18%) ETL Development
5 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (13.64%) Data Design
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.36%) Data Engineering
7 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) SQL
2 29 (65.91%) PL/SQL
3 12 (27.27%) Java
4 9 (20.45%) C
4 9 (20.45%) ProC
5 6 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.27%) Bash
7 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft