Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 460 496
Rank change year-on-year -16 +36 +96
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 106 21 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.093% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 13 28
10th Percentile £359 £359 £363
25th Percentile £414 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £659
90th Percentile £675 £595 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
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 37,510 22,588 34,189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.59% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 15,045 22,708
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,561 914 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -27 35 £650 +13.04% 1
South East -26 27 £469 - 4
London -42 22 £500 -4.76% 1
Yorkshire -40 19 £445 -22.57%
North West - 16 £650 - 1
Midlands - 15 £525 -
West Midlands - 11 £550 -
South West - 5 £606 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 106 (100.00%) Oracle
2 89 (83.96%) Oracle Database
3 49 (46.23%) Security Cleared
4 41 (38.68%) Oracle RMAN
4 41 (38.68%) SQL
5 36 (33.96%) SC Cleared
6 31 (29.25%) High Availability
7 27 (25.47%) Oracle RAC
8 25 (23.58%) Linux
8 25 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
9 23 (21.70%) PL/SQL
10 22 (20.75%) Data Guard
10 22 (20.75%) Migration
10 22 (20.75%) SQL Server
10 22 (20.75%) Unix
11 20 (18.87%) AWS
12 17 (16.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (13.21%) DV Cleared
13 14 (13.21%) ITIL
13 14 (13.21%) Oracle Database 12c
13 14 (13.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (13.21%) Shell Script
14 12 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (11.32%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (9.43%) Korn
16 9 (8.49%) Data Migration
16 9 (8.49%) Database Tuning
16 9 (8.49%) DevOps

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 7 (6.60%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.83%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.89%) Liferay
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.72%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (4.72%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.87%) AWS
2 7 (6.60%) OCI
3 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
3 6 (5.66%) Azure
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.83%) Azure Storage
4 3 (2.83%) PaaS
5 2 (1.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (83.96%) Oracle Database
2 22 (20.75%) SQL Server
3 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (13.21%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (11.32%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (8.49%) MySQL
6 9 (8.49%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (5.66%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.77%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.83%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Toad
General
1 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
1 9 (8.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.60%) Finance
3 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.94%) Back Office
4 1 (0.94%) Banking
4 1 (0.94%) Billing
4 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.94%) Legal
4 1 (0.94%) Local Government
4 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.94%) Military
4 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (1.89%) Middleware
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (0.94%) JSON
3 1 (0.94%) XML
3 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.94%) Life Science
4 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.94%) Replication
4 1 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.58%) Linux
2 22 (20.75%) Unix
3 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.83%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.89%) Windows
6 1 (0.94%) AIX
6 1 (0.94%) HPUX
6 1 (0.94%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.25%) High Availability
2 25 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (20.75%) Migration
4 14 (13.21%) ITIL
4 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (8.49%) Data Migration
5 9 (8.49%) Database Tuning
5 9 (8.49%) DevOps
5 9 (8.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (8.49%) Release Management
6 8 (7.55%) Database Security
7 7 (6.60%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (6.60%) Runbook
7 7 (6.60%) SQL Optimisation
8 6 (5.66%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (5.66%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (5.66%) Statistics
9 5 (4.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (4.72%) Task Automation
10 4 (3.77%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.68%) SQL
2 23 (21.70%) PL/SQL
3 14 (13.21%) Shell Script
4 10 (9.43%) Korn
5 6 (5.66%) Python
6 3 (2.83%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.94%) PHP
7 1 (0.94%) RPG
7 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (46.23%) Security Cleared
2 36 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.21%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.72%) OCP
6 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.94%) Degree
8 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) SLA
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (25.47%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 41 (38.68%) Oracle RMAN
2 22 (20.75%) Data Guard
3 17 (16.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.83%) Ansible
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.89%) Foglight
5 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.89%) systemd
5 2 (1.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 106 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.94%) EMC
4 1 (0.94%) NEC
4 1 (0.94%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.94%) Wonderware