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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 554 565
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 14 8 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.021% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.12% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 42
10th Percentile £313 £549 £382
25th Percentile £363 £613 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £466
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +34.05% -17.48%
75th Percentile £472 £650 £500
90th Percentile £700 - £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £513 £470
% change year-on-year -10.98% +9.04% -8.29%
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 5,987 6,922 8,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.17% 17.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 4,763 5,796
10th Percentile £343 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 91 155
10th Percentile £21.24 £17.50 £20.93
25th Percentile £29.07 £21.00 £32.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.78 £73.73
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -45.45% +57.14%

Oracle Database 12c
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle Database 12c as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database 12c 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 19 September 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 11 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 19 September 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
UK excluding London +18 10 £456 -10.98% 2
England +10 10 £463 -26.00% 2
Work from Home +24 7 £445 -28.80% 2
South East +21 3 £700 -
South West +19 2 £463 -9.76%
London +1 2 £450 -28.00%
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £325 -
Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 1 £375 - 2
North of England - 1 £375 - 2

Oracle Database 12c
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) OCI
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DBA
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Middleware Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Middleware Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (14.29%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Database Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) BCP
6 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
6 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Change Control
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Database Security
6 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
6 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PL/SQL
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) OCP
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) OCA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Data Guard
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Virgin Media