Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 465 490
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 +123
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 90 14 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.057% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.062% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 6 34
10th Percentile £350 £381 £363
25th Percentile £379 £430 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £566 £631
90th Percentile £675 £575 £801
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +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 36,264 22,599 34,610
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.70% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,792 15,123 23,074
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% -0.98% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,409 853 2,358
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £41.26 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.97% -10.00% -21.40%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -36 34 £630 - 5
South East -30 22 £430 -
Yorkshire -40 20 £366 - 1
London -48 18 £500 -
North West - 14 £650 - 4
Midlands - 9 £437 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £437 -
South West - 5 £606 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 April 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 90 (100.00%) Oracle
2 73 (81.11%) Oracle Database
3 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
4 36 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 35 (38.89%) SQL
6 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
7 27 (30.00%) High Availability
8 23 (25.56%) Oracle RAC
9 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
10 21 (23.33%) Linux
11 20 (22.22%) Unix
12 19 (21.11%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (20.00%) Migration
13 18 (20.00%) PL/SQL
14 17 (18.89%) AWS
14 17 (18.89%) Data Guard
14 17 (18.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 15 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (15.56%) Oracle Database 12c
16 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (15.56%) Shell Script
17 13 (14.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
18 12 (13.33%) ITIL
18 12 (13.33%) MySQL
19 11 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
20 10 (11.11%) Korn
21 9 (10.00%) Data Migration
21 9 (10.00%) Release Management
22 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
22 8 (8.89%) Database Tuning

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 (4.44%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.22%) Liferay
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) AWS
2 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.56%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) OCI
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.22%) IaaS
5 2 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (81.11%) Oracle Database
2 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
3 15 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (15.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (13.33%) MySQL
6 11 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (8.89%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (6.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.44%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.44%) SQLPlus
11 3 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) Toad
General
1 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.56%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.11%) Back Office
5 1 (1.11%) Legal
5 1 (1.11%) Local Government
5 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.11%) Military
5 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.11%) JSON
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.11%) Life Science
4 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Replication
4 1 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 20 (22.22%) Unix
3 7 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.22%) Windows
6 1 (1.11%) AIX
6 1 (1.11%) OpenVMS
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) High Availability
2 19 (21.11%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (20.00%) Migration
4 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.33%) ITIL
6 9 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 9 (10.00%) Release Management
7 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (8.89%) Database Tuning
8 7 (7.78%) Database Security
8 7 (7.78%) DevOps
8 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.78%) SQL Optimisation
9 6 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (6.67%) Runbook
9 6 (6.67%) Statistics
10 5 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (5.56%) Task Automation
11 4 (4.44%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.89%) SQL
2 18 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 14 (15.56%) Shell Script
4 10 (11.11%) Korn
5 4 (4.44%) Python
6 3 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) OCP
4 5 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) QA
1 7 (7.78%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (25.56%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.33%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 17 (18.89%) Data Guard
2 17 (18.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (2.22%) Foglight
4 2 (2.22%) systemd
5 1 (1.11%) Ansible
5 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.11%) EMC
4 1 (1.11%) NEC
4 1 (1.11%) Wonderware