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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 621 638
Rank change year-on-year +94 +17 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 64 97 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 158
10th Percentile £361 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.50% +5.79%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £609
90th Percentile £715 £621 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -2.17%
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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +86 45 £588 +17.50% 10
Work from Home +120 39 £550 +10.00%
London +102 31 £600 +20.00% 1
UK excluding London +46 21 £425 -10.53% 12
Scotland +41 6 £338 -15.63% 2
North of England +22 5 £425 -17.07% 1
North West +17 5 £425 -10.53% 1
Wales +16 5 £550 +2.33% 1
South East +19 4 £425 -10.53% 2
South West +15 1 £625 +31.58%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 64 (100.00%) Oracle
2 57 (89.06%) Oracle Database
3 27 (42.19%) Data Guard
3 27 (42.19%) SQL
4 21 (32.81%) Linux
5 17 (26.56%) Finance
5 17 (26.56%) Migration
6 16 (25.00%) MySQL
6 16 (25.00%) Banking
6 16 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (23.44%) Java
8 14 (21.88%) Azure
8 14 (21.88%) Oracle RAC
9 13 (20.31%) High Availability
10 12 (18.75%) Shell Script
10 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
11 11 (17.19%) Management Information System
11 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (17.19%) Hibernate
11 11 (17.19%) JPA
12 10 (15.63%) AWS
12 10 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
12 10 (15.63%) Database Security
12 10 (15.63%) SQL Server
12 10 (15.63%) OCI
13 9 (14.06%) Database Migration
13 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.06%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (14.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 9 (14.06%) 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 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.88%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) OCI
3 8 (12.50%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (89.06%) Oracle Database
2 16 (25.00%) MySQL
3 11 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (15.63%) SQL Server
5 9 (14.06%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (9.38%) Oracle ODI
7 6 (9.38%) PowerCenter
8 4 (6.25%) Metadata
8 4 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (6.25%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.13%) DB2
10 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.56%) OLAP
10 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.56%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Maven
2 6 (9.38%) JIRA
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 16 (25.00%) Banking
3 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.56%) Front Office
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) Hibernate
1 11 (17.19%) JPA
2 9 (14.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 7 (10.94%) Middleware
4 3 (4.69%) Spring
4 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (10.94%) Replication
3 4 (6.25%) Credit Derivative
3 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.69%) Derivative
5 1 (1.56%) Blog
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.81%) Linux
2 8 (12.50%) AIX
3 7 (10.94%) Unix
4 6 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Migration
2 16 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (20.31%) High Availability
4 10 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (15.63%) Database Security
5 9 (14.06%) Database Migration
5 9 (14.06%) Database Tuning
5 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.50%) DevOps
6 8 (12.50%) E-business
7 7 (10.94%) Information Security
7 7 (10.94%) SDLC
7 7 (10.94%) Software Architecture
7 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.81%) Security Management
9 4 (6.25%) Data Migration
9 4 (6.25%) Data Transformation
9 4 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (6.25%) Load Balancing
9 4 (6.25%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) SQL
2 15 (23.44%) Java
3 12 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.56%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) OCP
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) IFRS
2 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 14 (21.88%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (42.19%) Data Guard
2 8 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Ansible
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Informatica
3 6 (9.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) SAP