Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 67 101
Rank change year-on-year -57 +34 +22
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 10 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.51% 1.17% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 7.38% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile - £489 £340
25th Percentile £316 £519 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £394 £603 -
90th Percentile £546 £623 -
England median daily rate £471 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -14.36% +4.76% +5.00%

All Database & BI Skills
Yorkshire

Oracle Database 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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 316 149 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.16% 15.80% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 96 147
10th Percentile £323 £359 £316
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £638
England median daily rate £500 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £29.60 - £16.14
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.25 £17.38
Median hourly rate £74.00 £27.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +169.09% +32.82% -
75th Percentile - £31.45 £24.37
90th Percentile - £33.07 £25.82
England median hourly rate £46.50 £39.00 £42.19
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.56% -27.79%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Yorkshire

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Yorkshire -50 8 £350 -41.54%
West Yorkshire -25 2 £700 +27.27% 1
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) DBA
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) JPA
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) API Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft