Oracle DBA Contracts

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 618 655
Rank change year-on-year +92 +37 -118
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 68 98 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 58 143
10th Percentile £363 £400 £401
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £538 £613
90th Percentile £700 £617 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +97 49 £588 +17.50% 12
Work from Home +117 40 £550 +11.68% 2
London +111 35 £588 +17.50% 1
UK excluding London +45 21 £425 -10.53% 14
Scotland +34 6 £338 -18.18% 3
North of England +28 5 £425 -17.07% 1
North West +21 5 £425 -10.53% 1
Wales +15 5 £550 +2.33% 1
South East +18 4 £425 -10.53% 2
South West +7 1 £625 +31.58%

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Oracle DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Oracle
2 61 (89.71%) Oracle Database
3 28 (41.18%) Data Guard
3 28 (41.18%) SQL
4 23 (33.82%) Linux
5 18 (26.47%) MySQL
5 18 (26.47%) Finance
5 18 (26.47%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (25.00%) Banking
6 17 (25.00%) Migration
7 15 (22.06%) Java
7 15 (22.06%) Oracle RAC
7 15 (22.06%) Azure
8 13 (19.12%) High Availability
8 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (17.65%) Shell Script
9 12 (17.65%) AWS
9 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
10 11 (16.18%) JPA
10 11 (16.18%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (16.18%) Management Information System
10 11 (16.18%) Hibernate
10 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
11 10 (14.71%) Database Security
11 10 (14.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 10 (14.71%) OCI
12 9 (13.24%) Database Migration
12 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.24%) Oracle Database 12c
12 9 (13.24%) Database Tuning

Oracle DBA Skill Set
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 4 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 12 (17.65%) AWS
3 10 (14.71%) OCI
4 9 (13.24%) GitHub
5 4 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (89.71%) Oracle Database
2 18 (26.47%) MySQL
3 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
5 9 (13.24%) Oracle Database 12c
5 9 (13.24%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (8.82%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (8.82%) PowerCenter
7 4 (5.88%) Metadata
7 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (5.88%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.94%) DB2
10 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.47%) OLAP
10 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.47%) Oracle Discoverer
10 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Maven
2 6 (8.82%) JIRA
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
2 17 (25.00%) Banking
3 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.47%) Front Office
7 1 (1.47%) Local Government
7 1 (1.47%) Military
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) Hibernate
1 11 (16.18%) JPA
2 10 (14.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 9 (13.24%) Middleware
4 3 (4.41%) Spring
4 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.29%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (10.29%) Replication
3 4 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
3 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.41%) Derivative
5 1 (1.47%) Blog
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) AIX
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (10.29%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (25.00%) Migration
3 13 (19.12%) High Availability
4 11 (16.18%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (14.71%) Database Security
6 9 (13.24%) Database Migration
6 9 (13.24%) Database Tuning
6 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.76%) DevOps
7 8 (11.76%) E-business
8 7 (10.29%) Information Security
8 7 (10.29%) SDLC
8 7 (10.29%) Software Architecture
8 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (7.35%) Security Management
10 4 (5.88%) Data Migration
10 4 (5.88%) Data Transformation
10 4 (5.88%) Load Balancing
10 4 (5.88%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) SQL
2 15 (22.06%) Java
3 12 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.35%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.47%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) OCP
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (41.18%) Data Guard
2 8 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Ansible
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (2.94%) Terraform
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.82%) Informatica
5 2 (2.94%) Google
5 2 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) SAP