Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £556, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 474 523
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 40 52 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 48
10th Percentile £423 £313 £358
25th Percentile £450 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £607 £688 £488
90th Percentile £712 £700 £538
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £408
% change year-on-year - +34.97% -24.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £77.50 - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
% change year-on-year - - +46.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,406 30,639 39,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.99% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,389 19,101 27,778
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,479 1,365
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.81 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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
London -27 15 £510 -9.33% 2
South West +26 9 £693 +10.80%
South East +24 7 £500 +17.65% 1
North of England - 4 £450 -
Yorkshire - 3 £513 -
Midlands -13 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 1 £450 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 38 (95.00%) Oracle Database
3 26 (65.00%) Data Guard
4 25 (62.50%) Oracle RAC
4 25 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 23 (57.50%) SQL
6 20 (50.00%) PL/SQL
7 19 (47.50%) Linux
8 17 (42.50%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (32.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 11 (27.50%) Azure
11 10 (25.00%) Migration
11 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
11 10 (25.00%) Database Migration
12 9 (22.50%) OCI
12 9 (22.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (22.50%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (22.50%) Oracle Exadata
12 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
13 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 8 (20.00%) High Availability
13 8 (20.00%) AWS
13 8 (20.00%) DevOps
13 8 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
14 7 (17.50%) Windows
14 7 (17.50%) Oracle Database 12c
15 6 (15.00%) Unix
15 6 (15.00%) Finance

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (7.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) OCI
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (95.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (17.50%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (7.50%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.50%) MySQL
9 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Electronics
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) French Language
5 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 6 (15.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Solaris
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 10 (25.00%) Migration
2 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (22.50%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (22.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (20.00%) DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) High Availability
5 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 5 (12.50%) Database Security
6 5 (12.50%) Line Management
7 4 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (7.50%) Agile
8 3 (7.50%) Capacity Management
8 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
8 3 (7.50%) Database Tuning
8 3 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (7.50%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (7.50%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) SQL
2 20 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) Perl
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) OCP
3 5 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) OCA
6 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (65.00%) Data Guard
2 25 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 13 (32.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (5.00%) yum
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Delphix
3 2 (5.00%) Sybase
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.50%) VMware