Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Oracle Database Administrator
South East > Berkshire

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in Berkshire is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 94 129
Rank change year-on-year -16 +35 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.58% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £400 - £379
25th Percentile £410 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.50%
75th Percentile £569 - £528
90th Percentile £610 - £556
South East median daily rate £452 - £463
% change year-on-year - - +2.78%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,574 1,171 1,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.13% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 664 1,030
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -1.96%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £601
90th Percentile £653 £668 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 30 114
10th Percentile £19.40 £39.73 £18.97
25th Percentile £36.30 £49.97 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +6.03% -10.32%
75th Percentile £94.94 £65.39 £67.44
90th Percentile £106.00 £80.71 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £43.67
% change year-on-year -17.65% -2.67% -2.97%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Oracle DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in Berkshire

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in Berkshire

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in Berkshire

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Reading - 5 £563 -
Wokingham - 5 £420 - 4
Oracle DBA
South East

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 27 February 2026, Oracle DBA 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 Berkshire region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle Database
3 8 (80.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (70.00%) SQL
4 7 (70.00%) Unix
5 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 5 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (40.00%) AWS
7 4 (40.00%) Azure
7 4 (40.00%) Data Guard
7 4 (40.00%) OCP
7 4 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
8 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
8 3 (30.00%) DevOps
8 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (30.00%) GDPR

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (30.00%) OCI
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Unix
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Release Management
3 3 (30.00%) Runbook
3 3 (30.00%) Statistics
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Budget Responsibility
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (30.00%) Korn
4 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) OCP
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (40.00%) Data Guard
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (20.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Wonderware