Oracle Database 10g Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database 10g
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Database 10g skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 590 542 583
Rank change year-on-year -48 +41 +134
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 10g 5 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.006% 0.050%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.079% 0.033% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £379 £397 £381
25th Percentile £404 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £451 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% +6.18% -22.73%
75th Percentile £415 £488 £626
90th Percentile - £506 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -26.83% +28.13% -33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database 10g 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,341 6,133 7,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.33% 17.94% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,364 4,048 5,230
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £767 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 84 140
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.15 £16.11
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.27 £21.56
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.49% -34.81% -7.73%
75th Percentile £69.25 £61.69 £64.65
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.35 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +93.00% -41.26% +2.62%

Oracle Database 10g
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database 10g relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Database 10g job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Database 10g
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 10g.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 10g

Oracle Database 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 10g.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 10g

Oracle Database 10g
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database 10g within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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
England -34 5 £408 +4.49% 1
London +3 4 £411 +5.45% 1
Work from Home -10 1 £375 -26.83% 1
UK excluding London -48 1 £375 -26.83%
North of England - 1 £375 -
North West - 1 £375 -

Oracle Database 10g
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Ant
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
3 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (60.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Korn
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Perforce