Oracle Database 12c Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database 12c
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Oracle Database 12c skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £441 - -
90th Percentile £443 - -
South East median daily rate £425 - £513
% change year-on-year - - +8.47%

All Database & BI Skills
Thames Valley

Oracle Database 12c 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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 297 270 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.98% 16.29% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 178 233
10th Percentile £322 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £660
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 18
10th Percentile £25.94 £41.25 £21.97
25th Percentile £26.26 £51.41 £30.95
Median hourly rate £27.16 £63.15 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -56.99% +2.27% +12.27%
75th Percentile £27.70 £65.17 £67.50
90th Percentile £27.81 £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £59.00
% change year-on-year -41.41% +7.03% +28.26%

Oracle Database 12c
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database 12c relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Oracle Database 12c job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle Database 12c.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Database 12c
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database 12c within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £425 -
Oracle Database 12c
South East

Oracle Database 12c
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OCI
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle