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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 552 559
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +46
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 20 5 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.013% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% 0.076% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 52
10th Percentile £338 - £400
25th Percentile £391 £613 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £625 £470
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +32.91% -17.50%
75th Percentile £469 £638 £509
90th Percentile £553 - £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.70
Median hourly rate - - £62.05
75th Percentile - - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +24.10%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,088 6,568 8,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.20% 17.73% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 4,416 5,618
10th Percentile £338 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £732 £778 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 89 160
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £40.49 £30.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -39.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £70.10 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -38.78% +20.30%

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 21 October 2025.

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 12 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 21 October 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 +11 14 £450 -28.00% 5
UK excluding London +6 13 £431 - 3
Work from Home +26 9 £440 -29.60% 2
South East +10 5 £438 - 2
London +8 4 £450 -28.00% 2
Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 2 £463 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £325 -
Wales - 1 - -
North West - 1 £375 - 1
North of England - 1 £375 - 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 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) OCI
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 10 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database 10g
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (5.00%) GIS
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) OLAP
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) DBA
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (5.00%) GIS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Middleware Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Dojo
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) jQuery
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.00%) SAP PI
4 1 (5.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) High Availability
4 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Database Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (15.00%) ERP
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) OCP
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ESRI
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media