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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 444 495
Rank change year-on-year -30 +51 +77
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 115 25 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 15 30
10th Percentile £365 £374 £313
25th Percentile £431 £431 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £446
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +17.78% -6.16%
75th Percentile £627 £575 £647
90th Percentile £675 £590 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +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 38,507 22,115 34,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 14,615 22,560
10th Percentile £325 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,712 936 2,585
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -42 37 £650 +26.83%
South East -37 29 £550 +10.00% 3
London -74 25 £500 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire -41 20 £525 -8.70%
North West -20 16 £650 +44.44%
Midlands - 15 £525 -
West Midlands - 11 £550 -
South West - 5 £606 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 97 (84.35%) Oracle Database
3 58 (50.43%) Security Cleared
4 45 (39.13%) Oracle RMAN
5 40 (34.78%) SQL
6 38 (33.04%) SC Cleared
7 37 (32.17%) High Availability
8 29 (25.22%) Oracle RAC
9 28 (24.35%) Data Guard
10 27 (23.48%) Linux
10 27 (23.48%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (21.74%) SQL Server
12 24 (20.87%) AWS
13 22 (19.13%) DV Cleared
14 21 (18.26%) Migration
14 21 (18.26%) PL/SQL
14 21 (18.26%) Unix
15 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
16 17 (14.78%) Oracle Database 12c
17 16 (13.91%) ITIL
17 16 (13.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 16 (13.91%) Shell Script
18 15 (13.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
19 13 (11.30%) Oracle Reports
20 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
20 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
21 11 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
21 11 (9.57%) Oracle Database 11g
21 11 (9.57%) Oracle EBS
22 10 (8.70%) Korn

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 (5.22%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.74%) Liferay
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.09%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (2.61%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.87%) AWS
2 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
2 6 (5.22%) Azure
2 6 (5.22%) OCI
3 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (2.61%) Azure Storage
3 3 (2.61%) PaaS
4 2 (1.74%) IaaS
5 1 (0.87%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (84.35%) Oracle Database
2 25 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (14.78%) Oracle Database 12c
5 13 (11.30%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (9.57%) Oracle Database 11g
8 9 (7.83%) MySQL
9 7 (6.09%) MongoDB
10 6 (5.22%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.48%) SQLPlus
12 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database 10g
12 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.74%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.74%) GitLab
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 9 (7.83%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Finance
4 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.74%) Banking
4 2 (1.74%) Military
4 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.87%) Billing
5 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.87%) International Banking
5 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.87%) Legal
5 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.61%) Middleware
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.74%) REST
4 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) Replication
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.87%) Life Science
5 1 (0.87%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.48%) Linux
2 21 (18.26%) Unix
3 8 (6.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.48%) AIX
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (3.48%) Windows
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) HPUX
6 1 (0.87%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) High Availability
2 27 (23.48%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (18.26%) Migration
4 16 (13.91%) ITIL
5 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (8.70%) Release Management
8 9 (7.83%) Data Migration
8 9 (7.83%) Database Security
9 8 (6.96%) DevOps
10 7 (6.09%) Database Tuning
10 7 (6.09%) Runbook
10 7 (6.09%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (5.22%) Security Hardening
12 5 (4.35%) CI/CD
12 5 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
12 5 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (4.35%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.78%) SQL
2 21 (18.26%) PL/SQL
3 16 (13.91%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.70%) Korn
5 7 (6.09%) Python
6 1 (0.87%) Bash
6 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.87%) RPG
6 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (50.43%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.04%) SC Cleared
3 22 (19.13%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.35%) OCP
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.74%) Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (25.22%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 45 (39.13%) Oracle RMAN
2 28 (24.35%) Data Guard
3 15 (13.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.61%) Terraform
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.74%) systemd
7 1 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.87%) Foglight
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.87%) EMC
4 1 (0.87%) IBM
4 1 (0.87%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.87%) Wonderware