Oracle DBA Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 495 584
Rank change year-on-year +29 +89 +39
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 19 47 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 39
10th Percentile £344 £363 £396
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £553
90th Percentile £600 £850 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in England

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in England.

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in England

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in England

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in England.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA 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 1 May 2025. 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
London +19 14 £525 -11.58% 5
South East +44 2 - - 5
North of England +16 2 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
Oracle DBA
UK

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Oracle DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 17 (89.47%) SQL
3 15 (78.95%) Oracle Database
4 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (52.63%) High Availability
5 9 (47.37%) PL/SQL
6 8 (42.11%) Migration
7 7 (36.84%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (31.58%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (31.58%) Linux
9 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (26.32%) Data Migration
10 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
10 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
10 4 (21.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
10 4 (21.05%) Database Security
10 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
11 3 (15.79%) Database Migration
11 3 (15.79%) OCI
11 3 (15.79%) DevOps
11 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
11 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (15.79%) Azure
11 3 (15.79%) AWS
11 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
11 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 11g

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) iTrent
1 1 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) OCI
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Miro
2 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Oracle Database
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) DBeaver
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) French Language
3 1 (5.26%) Front Office
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) High Availability
1 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (42.11%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Data Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) Database Security
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Database Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Validation
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Validation
7 1 (5.26%) Investment Management
7 1 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) OCP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Sybase
3 1 (5.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.26%) VMware