Oracle Database Contracts in Scotland

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 116 132
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 56 47 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.64% 1.75% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.78% 8.42% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 36
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £416 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year - +4.05% +8.05%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £563
90th Percentile £585 £625 £594
UK median daily rate £491 £493 £513
% change year-on-year -0.25% -3.90% +7.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 379 558 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.87% 20.74% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 428 450
10th Percentile £322 £383 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £641 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.75
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £58.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.72%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in Scotland

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. 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
Edinburgh +29 25 £575 +21.05% 2
Glasgow +21 19 £425 +6.25% 3
West Lothian +5 3 £580 -7.20%
Perthshire - 3 £475 -
Lanarkshire - 2 £443 - 2
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
1 2 (3.57%) JBoss
1 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.57%) WildFly
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 10 (17.86%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.93%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (8.93%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.36%) IaaS
8 3 (5.36%) OCI
8 3 (5.36%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (3.57%) Azure
10 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) Metadata
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.93%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (8.93%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.79%) Impala
7 1 (1.79%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
2 6 (10.71%) Maven
3 4 (7.14%) Git
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.57%) JIRA
5 2 (3.57%) JUnit
5 2 (3.57%) Subversion
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Finance
5 5 (8.93%) Back Office
5 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (62.50%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Database Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Architect
6 5 (8.93%) PL/SQL Developer
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Architect
7 4 (7.14%) DBA
7 4 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (7.14%) SQL Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Database Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Design Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Database Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) React
2 15 (26.79%) REST
3 13 (23.21%) CSS
4 10 (17.86%) AWS CDK
4 10 (17.86%) Spring
5 9 (16.07%) HTML
5 9 (16.07%) Node.js
6 8 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 5 (8.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (8.93%) SOAP
8 4 (7.14%) Kafka
8 4 (7.14%) Spring Batch
8 4 (7.14%) Web Services
9 2 (3.57%) Hibernate
9 2 (3.57%) Java EE
9 2 (3.57%) JPA
9 2 (3.57%) JSP
9 2 (3.57%) JSTL
9 2 (3.57%) XML
9 2 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) Tandem
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Unix
2 9 (16.07%) Linux
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (21.43%) Agile
3 12 (21.43%) Microservices
4 11 (19.64%) SQL Optimisation
5 10 (17.86%) Migration
6 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.07%) Computer Science
6 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 7 (12.50%) TDD
9 6 (10.71%) Unit Testing
10 5 (8.93%) API Management
10 5 (8.93%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.93%) Database Optimisation
10 5 (8.93%) Security Architecture
10 5 (8.93%) Service Management
10 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.93%) Storage Management
11 4 (7.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) SQL
2 20 (35.71%) Java
3 19 (33.93%) PL/SQL
4 16 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 11 (19.64%) Bash
6 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 10 (17.86%) TypeScript
7 8 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (1.79%) Google
2 1 (1.79%) VMware