Oracle Database 12c Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database 12c
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Database 12c skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 538 580
Rank change year-on-year -90 +42 +26
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 29 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.044% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.37% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £310 £313 £324
25th Percentile £492 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £365
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +50.68% -27.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £507
90th Percentile - £708 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +75.56% +1.71% -30.00%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,881 5,784 7,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.33% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,203 3,919 5,424
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -2.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 102 150
10th Percentile £15.30 £19.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.20 £20.76
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.99 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -10.85% -29.53%
75th Percentile £63.81 £63.31 £51.87
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year +18.52% +0.44% -42.73%

Oracle Database 12c
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Database 12c job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database 12c over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 12c.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Database 12c
Top 9 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 12c within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England -99 27 £594 +7.91% 2
UK excluding London -81 22 £625 +75.56% 2
South East -47 11 £420 -40.00% 1
North of England -65 10 £650 +82.58%
North West -36 5 £650 +82.58%
Yorkshire - 5 £630 -
London -68 4 £500 -9.09%
Midlands -56 1 - - 1
West Midlands -64 1 - -

Oracle Database 12c
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (6.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (27.59%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (6.90%) Db2
6 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (6.90%) SQLite
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.45%) MySQL
7 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.45%) OLAP
7 1 (3.45%) OLTP
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Developer 2000
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Advertising
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) DBA
2 18 (62.07%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared DBA
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) SQL DBA
4 4 (13.79%) Database Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle Specialist
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.90%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Life Science
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Unix
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Solaris
5 2 (6.90%) Windows
6 1 (3.45%) AIX
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) High Availability
2 10 (34.48%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (31.03%) ITIL
4 7 (24.14%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) SQL Optimisation
5 5 (17.24%) Database Security
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Release Management
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Database Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.90%) DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) Performance Improvement
8 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (3.45%) Agile
9 1 (3.45%) Incident Management
9 1 (3.45%) Problem Management
9 1 (3.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
3 5 (17.24%) Korn
4 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (24.14%) Data Guard
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Wonderware