Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends in the South West

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 299 351 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.22% 17.98% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 250 243
10th Percentile £213 £213 £170
25th Percentile £423 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £649 £623 £675
90th Percentile £714 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 41
10th Percentile £61.25 - £14.93
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £66.50 £16.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +315.63% -75.75% +9.97%
75th Percentile £95.00 £58.00 £70.66
90th Percentile £197.50 £61.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.31 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +48.94% -43.18% +53.85%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in the South West

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the South West

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Oracle RAC
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £606 - 1
Bristol - 2 £463 -
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DBA
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) OCA
2 2 (40.00%) OCP
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle