Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 476 513
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 +103
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 44 41 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 51
10th Percentile £316 £313 £380
25th Percentile £365 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +21.88% -25.58%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £538
90th Percentile £711 £700 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £488 £413
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -21.43%
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

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 27,406 28,955 37,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 93.02% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,580 17,706 25,955
10th Percentile £281 £300 £294
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,653 1,088 1,444
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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
North of England -26 10 £358 - 2
Midlands -25 9 £365 -14.12%
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
South West - 9 £693 -
West Midlands - 9 £365 -
London -37 6 £563 +14.80%
South East - 6 £500 -
North West -22 1 £450 - 2
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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 44 (100.00%) Oracle
1 44 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 22 (50.00%) Data Guard
3 21 (47.73%) Oracle RMAN
4 16 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
5 15 (34.09%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (31.82%) Linux
7 13 (29.55%) Python
7 13 (29.55%) SQL
8 12 (27.27%) PL/SQL
8 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (25.00%) Azure
9 11 (25.00%) Migration
9 11 (25.00%) MySQL
10 10 (22.73%) Line Management
10 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (22.73%) Unix
11 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (20.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 9 (20.45%) Oracle Exadata
11 9 (20.45%) Shell Script
12 8 (18.18%) DevOps
12 8 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
12 8 (18.18%) Windows
13 7 (15.91%) Agile
13 7 (15.91%) AWS
13 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
14 6 (13.64%) Change Management
14 6 (13.64%) Oracle Database 12c

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) OCI
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 11 (25.00%) MySQL
3 9 (20.45%) Oracle Exadata
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.64%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Electronics
5 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (13.64%) Replication
3 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Unix
3 8 (18.18%) Windows
4 3 (6.82%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) AIX
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (25.00%) Migration
4 10 (22.73%) Line Management
4 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (18.18%) DevOps
7 7 (15.91%) Agile
8 6 (13.64%) Change Management
9 5 (11.36%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.36%) Database Migration
9 5 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (11.36%) High Availability
10 4 (9.09%) Database Security
10 4 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
11 3 (6.82%) Cost Optimisation
11 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (6.82%) Observability
11 3 (6.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
1 13 (29.55%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) PL/SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.82%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) OCP
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (6.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 21 (47.73%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (20.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (4.55%) yum
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) Sybase
5 1 (2.27%) Delphix
5 1 (2.27%) EMC
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat