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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 478 471
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 111 37 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 25 29
10th Percentile £394 £421 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £688
90th Percentile £698 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -54.88%
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -54.88%

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 42,143 25,068 30,781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,317 16,174 19,714
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,273 1,351 1,623
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.01
90th Percentile £79.80 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -35 46 £500 +11.17% 7
North West -21 29 £480 +6.67% 7
South East -49 24 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire -26 16 £605 +18.05%
London -70 15 £525 +9.43% 5
Midlands -47 10 £506 -
South West -41 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -43 6 £550 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
North East - 1 £501 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Oracle
2 84 (75.68%) Oracle Database
3 72 (64.86%) Security Cleared
4 56 (50.45%) SQL
5 47 (42.34%) SC Cleared
6 40 (36.04%) Oracle RMAN
7 39 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
8 37 (33.33%) Data Guard
9 34 (30.63%) High Availability
10 33 (29.73%) Oracle RAC
11 32 (28.83%) DV Cleared
12 29 (26.13%) SQL Server
13 24 (21.62%) Linux
14 21 (18.92%) ITIL
15 19 (17.12%) PL/SQL
15 19 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (16.22%) AWS
17 17 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
17 17 (15.32%) Unix
18 16 (14.41%) Migration
19 15 (13.51%) Oracle Database 12c
19 15 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
20 14 (12.61%) Oracle Database 11g
21 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
22 11 (9.91%) Database Security
22 11 (9.91%) Database Tuning
23 10 (9.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
24 9 (8.11%) Change Management
24 9 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
24 9 (8.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

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 (5.41%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (5.41%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) AWS
2 8 (7.21%) Azure
3 5 (4.50%) OCI
4 1 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (75.68%) Oracle Database
2 29 (26.13%) SQL Server
3 19 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (13.51%) Oracle Database 12c
5 14 (12.61%) Oracle Database 11g
6 6 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (4.50%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (3.60%) MySQL
9 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.80%) Db2
10 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.80%) SQLite
11 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.90%) OLTP
11 1 (0.90%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.90%) Toad
General
1 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.41%) Finance
5 2 (1.80%) Banking
5 2 (1.80%) Military
6 1 (0.90%) Billing
6 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.90%) International Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.70%) Middleware
2 3 (2.70%) Terraform
3 2 (1.80%) REST
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Replication
2 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.62%) Linux
2 17 (15.32%) Unix
3 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.60%) AIX
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (3.60%) Solaris
4 4 (3.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.90%) HPUX
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
2 34 (30.63%) High Availability
3 21 (18.92%) ITIL
4 17 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (14.41%) Migration
6 15 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (9.91%) Database Security
7 11 (9.91%) Database Tuning
8 9 (8.11%) Change Management
8 9 (8.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (7.21%) SQL Optimisation
10 7 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (6.31%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (5.41%) Runbook
11 6 (5.41%) Security Patching
12 5 (4.50%) Incident Management
12 5 (4.50%) Security Hardening
12 5 (4.50%) Service Management
12 5 (4.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.45%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) PL/SQL
3 9 (8.11%) Python
4 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.80%) Korn
5 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.90%) Bash
6 1 (0.90%) RPG
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 47 (42.34%) SC Cleared
3 32 (28.83%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.50%) Degree
6 4 (3.60%) OCP
7 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) ISO 9000
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (29.73%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (36.04%) Oracle RMAN
2 37 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 9 (8.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.60%) Ansible
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.90%) Nagios
Vendors
1 111 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.90%) EMC
3 1 (0.90%) IBM
3 1 (0.90%) NetCracker
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.90%) Remedy