Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 181 247
Rank change year-on-year -100 +66 -45
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 168 161 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.26% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 7.88% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 101 107
10th Percentile £363 £300 £356
25th Percentile £431 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £568 £650
90th Percentile £675 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.20% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 6
10th Percentile £34.98 - £44.80
25th Percentile £38.06 - -
Median hourly rate £44.26 - £61.60
75th Percentile £74.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.26 £92.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -52.16% +50.16% -15.03%

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,147 2,042 2,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 16.00% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,130 1,407 1,813
10th Percentile £320 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £576
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 56 103
10th Percentile £13.53 £18.62 £13.54
25th Percentile £23.02 £22.92 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £31.64 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.83% -17.82% -32.40%
75th Percentile £70.47 £65.71 £59.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.12% -15.49% -31.73%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
South East -30 48 £550 +10.00% 20
Midlands -38 44 £525 +10.53% 4
North of England -93 44 £610 +22.00% 7
West Midlands -38 39 £525 -12.50% 1
North West -26 22 £650 +44.44% 6
Yorkshire -92 19 £445 -10.95% 1
South West -27 15 £600 +14.29% 6
Scotland -36 10 £550 +33.33% 4
East Midlands -25 4 £463 +29.19% 3
Northern Ireland +4 3 £675 - 1
East of England -33 3 £400 -17.95%
North East - 3 £501 -
Wales -11 1 £288 -23.33% 1
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (9.52%) SAS
2 11 (6.55%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.19%) Appian
6 2 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (1.19%) IIS
6 2 (1.19%) JBoss
6 2 (1.19%) Liferay
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (5.95%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (2.38%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (1.79%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.43%) AWS
2 29 (17.26%) Azure
3 14 (8.33%) OCI
4 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.17%) PaaS
6 5 (2.98%) GitHub
6 5 (2.98%) IaaS
7 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.79%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) Firewall
2 2 (1.19%) DSL
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.10%) Oracle Database 12c
3 14 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (5.95%) Oracle Database 11g
7 8 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.76%) RDBMS
8 7 (4.17%) MySQL
8 7 (4.17%) Pentaho
9 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.98%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.98%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (2.98%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (2.38%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 9 (5.36%) GitLab
2 8 (4.76%) Git
3 4 (2.38%) Liquibase
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.79%) ClearCase
4 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (1.79%) Selenium
5 2 (1.19%) Flyway
5 2 (1.19%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) Ant
6 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) Hudson
6 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 26 (15.48%) Public Sector
2 23 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.76%) Finance
4 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.98%) Legal
6 4 (2.38%) Advertising
7 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.19%) Aviation
8 2 (1.19%) Military
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (48.21%) DBA
2 76 (45.24%) Oracle DBA
3 22 (13.10%) Administrator
4 19 (11.31%) Architect
5 15 (8.93%) Senior
6 14 (8.33%) Developer
7 11 (6.55%) Database Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) SC Cleared DBA
9 9 (5.36%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.36%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 8 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Oracle Specialist
11 7 (4.17%) Release Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Senior DBA
12 6 (3.57%) Database Specialist
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 4 (2.38%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 10 (5.95%) XML
3 6 (3.57%) REST
4 5 (2.98%) JSON
4 5 (2.98%) Kafka
4 5 (2.98%) Middleware
5 4 (2.38%) .NET
5 4 (2.38%) Web Services
6 3 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (1.79%) SOAP
6 3 (1.79%) Spring
6 3 (1.79%) WinForms
6 3 (1.79%) WPF
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle ADF
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.19%) pytest
7 2 (1.19%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.60%) XSD
8 1 (0.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.38%) Replication
3 4 (2.38%) SCADA
4 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.79%) IoT
5 2 (1.19%) Clustering
5 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.19%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.19%) W3C
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Life Science
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.43%) Linux
2 25 (14.88%) Unix
3 13 (7.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (7.14%) Windows
5 6 (3.57%) Solaris
6 5 (2.98%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.79%) AIX
8 3 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.19%) OpenVMS
9 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.60%) HPUX
10 1 (0.60%) VMS
10 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.81%) High Availability
2 36 (21.43%) Migration
3 32 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
4 26 (15.48%) DevOps
5 25 (14.88%) Agile
6 21 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (10.71%) ETL
8 17 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (9.52%) Validation
10 15 (8.93%) Data Integration
11 14 (8.33%) AI
11 14 (8.33%) ITIL
12 13 (7.74%) Analytics
13 12 (7.14%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.14%) Release Management
14 11 (6.55%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (6.55%) Configuration Management
14 11 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.55%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.86%) SQL
2 26 (15.48%) PL/SQL
3 15 (8.93%) Shell Script
4 12 (7.14%) Java
4 12 (7.14%) Python
5 9 (5.36%) Korn
6 6 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.98%) Bash
7 5 (2.98%) C#
8 4 (2.38%) VB
9 3 (1.79%) Bicep
9 3 (1.79%) VB6
10 2 (1.19%) C
10 2 (1.19%) Perl
10 2 (1.19%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.60%) JCL
11 1 (0.60%) ProC
Qualifications
1 91 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 69 (41.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.55%) Degree
5 5 (2.98%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.38%) OCP
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.38%) SLA
5 3 (1.79%) FATCA
5 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) Docker
3 3 (1.79%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (26.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (12.50%) Data Guard
3 17 (10.12%) Terraform
4 16 (9.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 9 (5.36%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.79%) Ansible
6 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.19%) systemd
8 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.60%) Foglight
Vendors
1 168 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (7.14%) Talend
3 10 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.17%) Databricks
5 6 (3.57%) Informatica
6 5 (2.98%) Denodo
6 5 (2.98%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.38%) SAP
7 4 (2.38%) Siebel
8 2 (1.19%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix
9 1 (0.60%) Commvault
9 1 (0.60%) EMC
9 1 (0.60%) NetApp
9 1 (0.60%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.60%) Remedy
9 1 (0.60%) Sage
9 1 (0.60%) Sybase
9 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.60%) Wonderware
43 Oracle Database jobs in the UK excluding London