Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 461 502
Rank change year-on-year -35 +41 +72
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 119 35 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 23 31
10th Percentile £365 £420 £313
25th Percentile £463 £475 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £669
90th Percentile £688 £714 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +2.33% +13.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 40,492 23,624 34,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,797 15,453 22,545
10th Percentile £325 £290 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,908 1,100 2,588
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.95 £16.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in England

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in England

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
North of England -40 38 £650 +26.83% 3
South East -40 29 £550 +4.76% 3
London -63 24 £500 -3.38% 1
Yorkshire -32 20 £525 -8.70%
North West -23 17 £650 +44.44% 3
South West -25 12 £730 +2.46%
Midlands -49 11 £506 -
West Midlands -47 7 £550 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 England region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 98 (82.35%) Oracle Database
3 70 (58.82%) Security Cleared
4 41 (34.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 40 (33.61%) SC Cleared
5 40 (33.61%) SQL
6 34 (28.57%) High Availability
7 33 (27.73%) DV Cleared
8 30 (25.21%) SQL Server
9 27 (22.69%) Oracle RAC
10 25 (21.01%) Linux
11 24 (20.17%) Data Guard
11 24 (20.17%) Performance Tuning
12 23 (19.33%) AWS
12 23 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (18.49%) Migration
13 22 (18.49%) Unix
14 18 (15.13%) ITIL
15 17 (14.29%) PL/SQL
16 16 (13.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 16 (13.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 15 (12.61%) Oracle Database 12c
18 13 (10.92%) Shell Script
19 12 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
19 12 (10.08%) Oracle Database 11g
20 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
20 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
21 10 (8.40%) Korn
21 10 (8.40%) MySQL
21 10 (8.40%) Release Management

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.36%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.88%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (5.04%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.33%) AWS
2 8 (6.72%) Azure
3 6 (5.04%) OCI
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.84%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.84%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (82.35%) Oracle Database
2 30 (25.21%) SQL Server
3 23 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.61%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (10.08%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (8.40%) MySQL
7 8 (6.72%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.68%) Db2
11 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
2 9 (7.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.88%) Finance
4 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Banking
5 2 (1.68%) Military
5 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.84%) Billing
6 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.84%) International Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
6 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.52%) Middleware
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.68%) REST
4 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.52%) Replication
4 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.84%) Life Science
5 1 (0.84%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.01%) Linux
2 22 (18.49%) Unix
3 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.20%) Windows
4 4 (3.36%) AIX
4 4 (3.36%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.68%) Solaris
5 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) HPUX
6 1 (0.84%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.57%) High Availability
2 24 (20.17%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (18.49%) Migration
4 18 (15.13%) ITIL
5 12 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (8.40%) Release Management
8 9 (7.56%) Data Migration
8 9 (7.56%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.72%) Database Security
10 7 (5.88%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.04%) Database Tuning
11 6 (5.04%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (5.04%) Security Hardening
12 5 (4.20%) Change Management
12 5 (4.20%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.20%) Runbook
12 5 (4.20%) Security Patching
13 4 (3.36%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) SQL
2 17 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 13 (10.92%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.40%) Korn
5 8 (6.72%) Python
6 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.84%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) RPG
7 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 40 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 33 (27.73%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Degree
6 2 (1.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) SLA
3 3 (2.52%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (34.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 24 (20.17%) Data Guard
3 16 (13.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.36%) Ansible
5 3 (2.52%) Terraform
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.84%) Foglight
Vendors
1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.84%) EMC
3 1 (0.84%) IBM
3 1 (0.84%) NetCracker
3 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.84%) Wonderware