Oracle Database Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle Database Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Oracle Database Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Database Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.060% - 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% - 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £450 £392 £660
% change year-on-year +14.80% -40.61% +7.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,117 1,343 1,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 90.50% 91.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,971 842 1,263
10th Percentile £315 £200 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £570 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 106 143
10th Percentile £15.75 £12.62 £11.96
25th Percentile £20.31 £14.00 £14.71
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.34 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.53% +28.11% -8.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.91 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

Oracle Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Oracle Database Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Oracle Database Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Oracle Database Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Shropshire - 1 £450 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 3
Oracle Database Engineer
England

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 June 2026, Oracle Database Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Oracle Database Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Denodo
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Talend

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Denodo
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Talend