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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 532 561
Rank change year-on-year -56 +29 +103
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 13 5 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.016% 0.075%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.19% 0.088% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 28
10th Percentile £310 £373 £371
25th Percentile £401 £398 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £453 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -3.62% -14.55%
75th Percentile £442 £520 £513
90th Percentile £547 £553 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £356 £470
% change year-on-year +17.98% -24.30% -5.95%

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 6,735 5,690 7,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 18.68% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,645 3,833 5,098
10th Percentile £342 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 92 167
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.96
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.21 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.48 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -27.27%

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 25 February 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 8 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 25 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
England -70 11 £420 -7.28% 3
UK excluding London -68 10 £420 +17.98% 3
South East - 7 £416 - 3
London -49 2 £514 -6.59%
Midlands - 2 £525 -
West Midlands - 2 £525 -
Work from Home - 2 £400 - 2
Wales - 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 5 (38.46%) WebLogic
2 2 (15.38%) Liferay
3 1 (7.69%) ArcGIS
3 1 (7.69%) GeoServer
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) OCI
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (15.38%) SQLPlus
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (7.69%) GIS
7 1 (7.69%) Metadata
7 1 (7.69%) OLAP
7 1 (7.69%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Advertising
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.69%) GIS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (23.08%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Dojo
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (7.69%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
1 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) High Availability
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
4 3 (23.08%) ERP
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 1 (7.69%) Business Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Database Tuning
6 1 (7.69%) MVC
6 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) OCP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (30.77%) Data Guard
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ESRI
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Wonderware