Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £432, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 465 510
Rank change year-on-year -31 +45 +118
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 84 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.060% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 4 33
10th Percentile £316 £478 £366
25th Percentile £365 £500 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £631
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK median daily rate £436 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.85% - -
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 33,941 23,161 35,129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.05% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,406 15,205 23,524
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 775 2,271
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.45 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +1.54% -23.53%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -38 27 £365 - 8
South East -33 21 £430 - 4
Yorkshire -39 18 £360 - 5
London -40 16 £500 -6.98% 3
West Midlands - 13 £365 -
Midlands - 13 £365 -
North West -21 9 £650 - 3
South West - 5 £606 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 84 (100.00%) Oracle
2 68 (80.95%) Oracle Database
3 31 (36.90%) Oracle RMAN
3 31 (36.90%) SQL
4 28 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 22 (26.19%) Unix
6 21 (25.00%) High Availability
6 21 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
6 21 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (23.81%) SQL Server
8 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
9 18 (21.43%) Linux
9 18 (21.43%) MySQL
9 18 (21.43%) PL/SQL
9 18 (21.43%) Shell Script
10 17 (20.24%) Migration
11 16 (19.05%) AWS
11 16 (19.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.67%) Data Guard
13 13 (15.48%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 12 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (13.10%) Data Migration
16 10 (11.90%) Oracle Database 12c
17 9 (10.71%) DevOps
17 9 (10.71%) ITIL
17 9 (10.71%) Korn
17 9 (10.71%) SLA

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 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.38%) Liferay
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) AWS
2 7 (8.33%) Azure
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.95%) OCI
5 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.38%) IaaS
6 2 (2.38%) PaaS
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (80.95%) Oracle Database
2 20 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 18 (21.43%) MySQL
4 13 (15.48%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (11.90%) Oracle Database 12c
7 8 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
9 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.76%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.76%) SQLPlus
11 3 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Toad
General
1 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
1 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Finance
3 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.19%) Back Office
4 1 (1.19%) Legal
4 1 (1.19%) Local Government
4 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.19%) Military
4 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.19%) JSON
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.19%) Life Science
4 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Replication
4 1 (1.19%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Unix
2 18 (21.43%) Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Solaris
4 2 (2.38%) Windows
5 1 (1.19%) AIX
5 1 (1.19%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.00%) High Availability
1 21 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (20.24%) Migration
3 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (13.10%) Data Migration
6 9 (10.71%) DevOps
6 9 (10.71%) ITIL
6 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (9.52%) Release Management
8 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.14%) Database Security
8 6 (7.14%) Database Tuning
8 6 (7.14%) Line Management
8 6 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (7.14%) Statistics
9 5 (5.95%) Agile
9 5 (5.95%) Change Management
9 5 (5.95%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 18 (21.43%) PL/SQL
2 18 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 9 (10.71%) Korn
4 8 (9.52%) Python
5 3 (3.57%) Perl
6 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) OCP
4 5 (5.95%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.57%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (19.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 14 (16.67%) Data Guard
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.38%) Foglight
5 2 (2.38%) systemd
6 1 (1.19%) Ansible
6 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.19%) EMC
4 1 (1.19%) NEC
4 1 (1.19%) Wonderware