Oracle Database 12c Contracts

Oracle Database 12c
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Oracle Database 12c skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database 12c over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 571 602
Rank change year-on-year +52 +31 +24
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 13 16 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.036% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.23% 0.21% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 55
10th Percentile £313 £324 £414
25th Percentile £356 £337 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -24.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £700 £497 £550
90th Percentile £708 £650 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £356 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +1.71% -30.00% -

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 5,548 7,513 9,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.60% 17.13% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 5,361 6,810
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 155 174
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.01 £20.88 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%
75th Percentile £66.00 £53.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £72.50 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.85 £34.47 £56.95
% change year-on-year -7.60% -39.48% +62.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database 12c.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database 12c over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database 12c.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Top 12 Contract 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 18 June 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 +75 10 £550 +15.67% 77
UK excluding London +44 9 £356 +1.71% 77
London +52 4 £550 +6.80% 5
South East +53 2 £700 - 15
Scotland +4 2 £325 -3.70% 4
Midlands - 2 - - 19
West Midlands - 2 - - 13
South West +32 1 - - 7
Work from Home +28 1 - - 69
North of England +12 1 £356 -24.70% 16
North West +9 1 £356 -24.70% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (7.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DBA
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared DBA
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) High Availability
2 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Database Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Database Security
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
5 2 (15.38%) BCP
5 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
5 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Database Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Fraud Detection
6 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PL/SQL
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) OCP
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (61.54%) Data Guard
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media