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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 454 493
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 +84
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 117 29 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 18 29
10th Percentile £365 £396 £313
25th Percentile £431 £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +27.91% -9.47%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £650
90th Percentile £685 £623 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
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 39,011 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,743 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -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 10 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 10 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 -40 37 £650 +26.83% 1
South East -48 26 £550 +10.00% 1
London -66 25 £500 -4.76% 1
Yorkshire -37 20 £525 -8.70%
North West -23 16 £650 +44.44% 1
Midlands -50 14 £525 -
South West -15 10 £700 +3.70% 1
West Midlands -43 10 £550 -
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 10 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.

1 117 (100.00%) Oracle
2 97 (82.91%) Oracle Database
3 64 (54.70%) Security Cleared
4 43 (36.75%) Oracle RMAN
5 41 (35.04%) SQL
6 39 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 38 (32.48%) High Availability
8 29 (24.79%) Oracle RAC
9 28 (23.93%) DV Cleared
10 27 (23.08%) SQL Server
11 26 (22.22%) Data Guard
11 26 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
12 25 (21.37%) Linux
13 23 (19.66%) AWS
14 22 (18.80%) Migration
14 22 (18.80%) Unix
15 21 (17.95%) PL/SQL
16 20 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
17 17 (14.53%) ITIL
18 16 (13.68%) Oracle Database 12c
18 16 (13.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
19 14 (11.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
20 13 (11.11%) Shell Script
21 12 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
21 12 (10.26%) Oracle Database 11g
21 12 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
22 11 (9.40%) Performance Optimisation
23 10 (8.55%) Database Security
23 10 (8.55%) Korn
23 10 (8.55%) Oracle EBS

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 5 (4.27%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.85%) Liferay
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.98%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.56%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.66%) AWS
2 6 (5.13%) Azure
2 6 (5.13%) OCI
3 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.85%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (82.91%) Oracle Database
2 27 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 20 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (13.68%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (10.26%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (8.55%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (7.69%) MySQL
8 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
9 6 (5.13%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database 10g
11 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.56%) SQLPlus
12 2 (1.71%) Db2
12 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.71%) GitLab
3 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
2 10 (8.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.98%) Finance
4 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.71%) Banking
5 2 (1.71%) Military
5 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Billing
6 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) International Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.56%) Middleware
3 2 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.71%) REST
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.56%) Replication
4 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.85%) Life Science
5 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.37%) Linux
2 22 (18.80%) Unix
3 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Windows
4 4 (3.42%) AIX
4 4 (3.42%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.85%) HPUX
6 1 (0.85%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.48%) High Availability
2 26 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (18.80%) Migration
4 17 (14.53%) ITIL
5 12 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.40%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (8.55%) Database Security
7 10 (8.55%) Release Management
8 9 (7.69%) Data Migration
9 8 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.84%) Database Tuning
10 7 (5.98%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.13%) Security Hardening
12 5 (4.27%) Change Management
12 5 (4.27%) DevOps
12 5 (4.27%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (4.27%) Runbook
12 5 (4.27%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) SQL
2 21 (17.95%) PL/SQL
3 13 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.55%) Korn
5 8 (6.84%) Python
6 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) Bash
7 1 (0.85%) RPG
7 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (54.70%) Security Cleared
2 39 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 28 (23.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.71%) Degree
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.71%) OCP
6 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) SLA
3 1 (0.85%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (24.79%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (36.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 26 (22.22%) Data Guard
3 14 (11.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.42%) Ansible
5 3 (2.56%) Terraform
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.85%) Foglight
Vendors
1 117 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.85%) EMC
3 1 (0.85%) IBM
3 1 (0.85%) NetCracker
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.85%) Wonderware