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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 534 561
Rank change year-on-year -120 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 29 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.046% 0.024%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.35% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 5
10th Percentile £481 £313 £549
25th Percentile £513 £363 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -28.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £675 £472 £650
90th Percentile - £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £456 £513
% change year-on-year +36.99% -10.98% +7.89%

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 8,232 5,846 6,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 17.97% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,904 4,769
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 94 90
10th Percentile £15.94 £21.73 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.05 £29.50 £19.87
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.82% +15.80% -42.86%

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 5 September 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 10 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 5 September 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 -114 25 £605 +30.81% 6
UK excluding London -88 17 £625 +36.99% 5
North of England -57 11 £650 +73.33%
North West -52 7 £650 +73.33%
London -78 6 £539 +19.67% 3
South East -67 5 £625 -10.71% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £630 -
Work from Home -64 3 £591 +32.78% 4
West Midlands -48 1 - -
Midlands -55 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 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.90%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 11 (37.93%) Oracle Database 11g
3 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (27.59%) Oracle Database 10g
5 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (6.90%) Db2
7 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.90%) SQLite
7 2 (6.90%) SQLPlus
8 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.45%) OLAP
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) Toad
2 2 (6.90%) Flyway
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) DBA
2 18 (62.07%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (17.24%) Administrator
3 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared DBA
3 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Support Specialist
7 1 (3.45%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Unix
3 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Solaris
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.45%) AIX
6 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) High Availability
2 13 (44.83%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (34.48%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
4 7 (24.14%) Database Security
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (20.69%) SQL Optimisation
6 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) ITIL
7 4 (13.79%) Database Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (10.34%) ETL
8 3 (10.34%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Physical Data Model
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (79.31%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (37.93%) Data Guard
3 9 (31.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (10.34%) Nagios
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) VMware