Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 462 508
Rank change year-on-year -32 +46 +101
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 91 13 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.053% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.057% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 4 33
10th Percentile £316 £478 £363
25th Percentile £365 £500 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £675 - £678
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
UK median hourly rate - - £28.00

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 34,954 22,722 34,938
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.92% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 15,207 23,350
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 841 2,304
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.26 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% +6.15% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.19 £71.60
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -24.60%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -36 34 £366 - 6
Yorkshire -40 23 £365 - 3
South East -34 21 £430 - 2
London -46 16 £500 -6.98% 5
West Midlands - 13 £365 -
Midlands - 13 £365 -
North West - 11 £650 - 3
South West - 5 £606 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 March 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 91 (100.00%) Oracle
2 75 (82.42%) Oracle Database
3 36 (39.56%) Oracle RMAN
3 36 (39.56%) SQL
4 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
5 25 (27.47%) High Availability
5 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
6 24 (26.37%) Unix
7 22 (24.18%) Linux
7 22 (24.18%) Oracle RAC
8 21 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (23.08%) SQL Server
9 20 (21.98%) PL/SQL
10 19 (20.88%) MySQL
11 18 (19.78%) Shell Script
12 17 (18.68%) Data Guard
13 16 (17.58%) Migration
13 16 (17.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (16.48%) AWS
15 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
16 13 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
17 12 (13.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
18 11 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (12.09%) ITIL
19 10 (10.99%) Python
19 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
20 9 (9.89%) Data Migration
20 9 (9.89%) Korn

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 (4.40%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.20%) Liferay
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.10%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) AWS
2 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.49%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) OCI
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.20%) IaaS
5 2 (2.20%) PaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (82.42%) Oracle Database
2 21 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 19 (20.88%) MySQL
4 13 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
4 13 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (8.79%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle Database 11g
9 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (4.40%) DynamoDB
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.40%) SQLPlus
10 3 (3.30%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Toad
General
1 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.10%) Back Office
5 1 (1.10%) Legal
5 1 (1.10%) Local Government
5 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.10%) Military
5 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.10%) Life Science
4 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Replication
4 1 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Unix
2 22 (24.18%) Linux
3 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.20%) Windows
6 1 (1.10%) AIX
6 1 (1.10%) OpenVMS
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) High Availability
2 21 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (17.58%) Migration
3 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (12.09%) ITIL
6 10 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.89%) Data Migration
8 8 (8.79%) Database Tuning
8 8 (8.79%) Release Management
9 7 (7.69%) Change Management
9 7 (7.69%) Database Security
9 7 (7.69%) DevOps
9 7 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.59%) Line Management
10 6 (6.59%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (6.59%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (6.59%) Runbook
10 6 (6.59%) SQL Optimisation
10 6 (6.59%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) SQL
2 20 (21.98%) PL/SQL
3 18 (19.78%) Shell Script
4 10 (10.99%) Python
5 9 (9.89%) Korn
6 3 (3.30%) Perl
7 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) OCP
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Degree
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) SLA
2 6 (6.59%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (24.18%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (39.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 17 (18.68%) Data Guard
3 16 (17.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (3.30%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.20%) Foglight
5 2 (2.20%) systemd
6 1 (1.10%) Ansible
6 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.20%) EMC
5 1 (1.10%) NEC
5 1 (1.10%) Wonderware