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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 475 506
Rank change year-on-year -22 +31 +68
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 120 35 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 23 33
10th Percentile £384 £420 £323
25th Percentile £433 £475 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +27.91% -5.49%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £688
90th Percentile £691 £714 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £488
% change year-on-year +2.33% +10.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -

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 41,083 24,574 34,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.11% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,017 22,554
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £734 £747 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,941 1,164 2,498
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.85 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £16.83
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.87 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.11
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -12.79%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -40 42 £610 +19.02% 5
South East -37 32 £550 +4.76% 2
North West -28 21 £650 +44.44% 5
Yorkshire -23 20 £525 -8.70%
London -68 19 £500 -3.33% 2
Midlands -50 11 £506 -
South West -32 10 £760 +6.67%
West Midlands -53 7 £550 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 120 (100.00%) Oracle
2 97 (80.83%) Oracle Database
3 72 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 45 (37.50%) SQL
5 44 (36.67%) SC Cleared
6 43 (35.83%) Oracle RMAN
7 36 (30.00%) SQL Server
8 34 (28.33%) High Availability
9 33 (27.50%) DV Cleared
10 31 (25.83%) Oracle RAC
10 31 (25.83%) Performance Tuning
11 28 (23.33%) Data Guard
12 27 (22.50%) Linux
13 25 (20.83%) ITIL
13 25 (20.83%) Unix
14 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (16.67%) AWS
16 18 (15.00%) Migration
17 17 (14.17%) Oracle Database 12c
18 16 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
18 16 (13.33%) PL/SQL
19 15 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
19 15 (12.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
20 14 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
20 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
21 13 (10.83%) Shell Script
22 11 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
22 11 (9.17%) Root Cause Analysis
23 10 (8.33%) Korn
23 10 (8.33%) Release Management

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 (5.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.83%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (5.00%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.67%) AWS
2 9 (7.50%) Azure
3 6 (5.00%) 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 97 (80.83%) Oracle Database
2 36 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (14.17%) Oracle Database 12c
5 15 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
6 7 (5.83%) MySQL
6 7 (5.83%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (5.00%) Oracle Database 10g
7 6 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.67%) Db2
10 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.67%) SQLite
11 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.83%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.67%) GitLab
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
5 2 (1.67%) Banking
5 2 (1.67%) Military
5 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
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%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.50%) Middleware
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.50%) Replication
4 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Life Science
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.50%) Linux
2 25 (20.83%) Unix
3 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.17%) Windows
4 4 (3.33%) AIX
4 4 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (3.33%) Solaris
5 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) HPUX
6 1 (0.83%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) High Availability
2 31 (25.83%) Performance Tuning
3 25 (20.83%) ITIL
4 18 (15.00%) Migration
5 14 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (8.33%) Release Management
8 9 (7.50%) Database Security
9 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (5.83%) Change Management
10 7 (5.83%) Database Tuning
10 7 (5.83%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.00%) Security Hardening
12 5 (4.17%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.17%) Runbook
12 5 (4.17%) Security Patching
12 5 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.50%) SQL
2 16 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 13 (10.83%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.33%) Korn
5 8 (6.67%) Python
6 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) RPG
7 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (27.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (3.33%) Degree
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.67%) OCP
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) SLA
3 4 (3.33%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (25.83%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (35.83%) Oracle RMAN
2 28 (23.33%) Data Guard
3 16 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.33%) Ansible
5 3 (2.50%) Terraform
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 120 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.83%) EMC
3 1 (0.83%) IBM
3 1 (0.83%) NetCracker
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.83%) Remedy
3 1 (0.83%) Wonderware