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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 469 457
Rank change year-on-year -32 -12 +74
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 121 35 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 25 35
10th Percentile £389 £421 £333
25th Percentile £418 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +21.88%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £680
90th Percentile £689 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -54.88%
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -54.88%

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 42,268 25,250 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.54% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,556 16,282 20,186
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,197 1,355 1,747
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% +2.87%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -33 49 £500 +11.11% 1
South East -46 31 £550 +10.00%
North West -23 30 £480 +6.67%
Yorkshire -28 18 £600 +17.07% 1
London -73 15 £525 +9.43% 2
Midlands -31 11 £463 -
South West -43 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -50 7 £550 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
North East - 1 £501 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 121 (100.00%) Oracle
2 89 (73.55%) Oracle Database
3 75 (61.98%) Security Cleared
4 56 (46.28%) SQL
5 50 (41.32%) SC Cleared
6 46 (38.02%) Oracle RMAN
7 39 (32.23%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (31.40%) Oracle RAC
9 37 (30.58%) Data Guard
9 37 (30.58%) SQL Server
10 35 (28.93%) High Availability
11 31 (25.62%) DV Cleared
12 26 (21.49%) ITIL
13 25 (20.66%) Linux
14 22 (18.18%) Unix
15 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (15.70%) AWS
17 18 (14.88%) PL/SQL
18 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (14.05%) Migration
18 17 (14.05%) Oracle Database 12c
19 16 (13.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
19 16 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
20 15 (12.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
21 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
21 14 (11.57%) Oracle Database 11g
22 12 (9.92%) Database Security
23 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
23 11 (9.09%) Shell Script
24 10 (8.26%) Database Tuning

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 6 (4.96%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.79%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (4.96%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.70%) AWS
2 9 (7.44%) Azure
3 6 (4.96%) OCI
4 1 (0.83%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (73.55%) Oracle Database
2 37 (30.58%) SQL Server
3 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (14.05%) Oracle Database 12c
5 14 (11.57%) Oracle Database 11g
6 8 (6.61%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (4.96%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (4.13%) MySQL
8 5 (4.13%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.65%) Db2
10 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.65%) SQLite
11 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.83%) OLTP
11 1 (0.83%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.83%) Toad
General
1 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Finance
5 2 (1.65%) Banking
5 2 (1.65%) Military
6 1 (0.83%) Billing
6 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.83%) International Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.48%) Middleware
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.65%) REST
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.13%) Replication
2 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.66%) Linux
2 22 (18.18%) Unix
3 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.13%) Windows
5 4 (3.31%) AIX
5 4 (3.31%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (3.31%) Solaris
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.83%) HPUX
7 1 (0.83%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Performance Tuning
2 35 (28.93%) High Availability
3 26 (21.49%) ITIL
4 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (14.05%) Migration
5 16 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (9.92%) Database Security
7 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (8.26%) Database Tuning
9 9 (7.44%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (6.61%) Change Management
10 8 (6.61%) Release Management
10 8 (6.61%) SQL Optimisation
11 7 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (4.96%) Security Hardening
13 5 (4.13%) Mentoring
13 5 (4.13%) Runbook
13 5 (4.13%) Security Patching
13 5 (4.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.28%) SQL
2 18 (14.88%) PL/SQL
3 11 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 8 (6.61%) Korn
4 8 (6.61%) Python
5 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.83%) RPG
6 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (61.98%) Security Cleared
2 50 (41.32%) SC Cleared
3 31 (25.62%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.26%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (4.96%) Degree
6 5 (4.13%) OCP
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) ISO 9000
3 3 (2.48%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (31.40%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (38.02%) Oracle RMAN
2 37 (30.58%) Data Guard
3 15 (12.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.31%) Ansible
5 3 (2.48%) Terraform
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 121 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.83%) EMC
4 1 (0.83%) IBM
4 1 (0.83%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.83%) Remedy