Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 481 501
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 +121
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 48 32 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 52
10th Percentile £316 £420 £380
25th Percentile £365 £450 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £414
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.85% -21.19%
75th Percentile £569 £673 £541
90th Percentile £603 £700 £631
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £421
% change year-on-year -10.00% +18.69% -17.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.70
Median hourly rate - - £62.05
75th Percentile - - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05

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 28,847 26,756 34,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.94% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,393 16,655 23,374
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,772 837 1,370
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%
75th Percentile £60.34 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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
South East +1 13 £550 - 1
Midlands -33 11 £365 -14.12% 4
West Midlands - 11 £365 - 4
North of England -40 10 £358 - 3
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
London -33 7 £575 +2.22% 2
South West - 3 £463 - 1
North West -29 1 £375 - 3
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 48 (100.00%) Oracle
2 47 (97.92%) Oracle Database
3 23 (47.92%) SQL
4 21 (43.75%) Oracle RMAN
5 20 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (39.58%) Data Guard
6 19 (39.58%) Oracle RAC
7 18 (37.50%) PL/SQL
8 17 (35.42%) Linux
9 13 (27.08%) Azure
9 13 (27.08%) Migration
9 13 (27.08%) Python
10 12 (25.00%) Shell Script
10 12 (25.00%) Unix
11 11 (22.92%) DevOps
11 11 (22.92%) MySQL
11 11 (22.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (20.83%) Oracle Exadata
13 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (18.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (16.67%) AWS
14 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
15 7 (14.58%) High Availability
16 6 (12.50%) Agile
16 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
16 6 (12.50%) Change Management
16 6 (12.50%) Microsoft

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 (8.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.17%) Liferay
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.08%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) OCI
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Storage
4 3 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) IaaS
5 2 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (97.92%) Oracle Database
2 11 (22.92%) MySQL
3 10 (20.83%) Oracle Exadata
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.33%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (8.33%) SQLPlus
7 3 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Git
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.08%) Toad
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (12.50%) Replication
3 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Linux
2 12 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (2.08%) AIX
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (27.08%) Migration
3 11 (22.92%) DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.58%) High Availability
7 6 (12.50%) Agile
7 6 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (12.50%) Change Management
7 6 (12.50%) Task Automation
8 5 (10.42%) Line Management
8 5 (10.42%) Statistics
9 4 (8.33%) Data Migration
9 4 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
10 3 (6.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) SQL
2 18 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 13 (27.08%) Python
4 12 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.25%) Bash
5 3 (6.25%) Perl
5 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) OCP
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) SLA
2 4 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (6.25%) NFS
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 19 (39.58%) Data Guard
3 11 (22.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (4.17%) systemd
4 2 (4.17%) yum
5 1 (2.08%) Foglight
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.08%) EMC
5 1 (2.08%) NEC