Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in England is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 471 487
Rank change year-on-year -83 +16 +33
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 93 48 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 33 21
10th Percentile £413 £323 £313
25th Percentile £431 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +11.68% +23.13%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £650
90th Percentile £734 £703 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £496
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.77% +18.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 -

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 43,070 25,660 29,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,333 16,528 18,273
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,798 1,445 1,249
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.23% -39.05% -8.30%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -51 29 £435 +19.18% 1
North West -27 23 £435 -3.33% 1
South East -51 23 £550 +10.00%
London -79 15 £510 -9.77% 1
Midlands -43 10 £506 +52.26% 2
South West -37 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -43 6 £550 +65.41% 2
Yorkshire -43 5 £481 +34.62%
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
East of England - 2 £487 -
North East - 1 £501 -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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 93 (100.00%) Oracle
2 71 (76.34%) Oracle Database
3 61 (65.59%) Security Cleared
4 49 (52.69%) SQL
5 36 (38.71%) Performance Tuning
5 36 (38.71%) SC Cleared
6 35 (37.63%) Data Guard
7 31 (33.33%) DV Cleared
8 29 (31.18%) Oracle RMAN
9 28 (30.11%) Oracle RAC
10 27 (29.03%) SQL Server
11 24 (25.81%) High Availability
12 21 (22.58%) Linux
13 19 (20.43%) ITIL
13 19 (20.43%) PL/SQL
13 19 (20.43%) Unix
14 16 (17.20%) AWS
15 15 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
16 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
16 14 (15.05%) Root Cause Analysis
17 13 (13.98%) Oracle Database 11g
17 13 (13.98%) PostgreSQL
18 12 (12.90%) Migration
19 11 (11.83%) Oracle Certification
20 10 (10.75%) Database Security
20 10 (10.75%) Database Tuning
20 10 (10.75%) Oracle EBS
20 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
20 10 (10.75%) WebLogic
21 9 (9.68%) Change Management

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 10 (10.75%) WebLogic
2 7 (7.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.15%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (2.15%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle Applications
2 6 (6.45%) Teamcenter
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.08%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) Azure
3 3 (3.23%) OCI
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.15%) Serverless
5 1 (1.08%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (76.34%) Oracle Database
2 27 (29.03%) SQL Server
3 13 (13.98%) Oracle Database 11g
3 13 (13.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.60%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (7.53%) Oracle Database 10g
6 5 (5.38%) MySQL
6 5 (5.38%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (4.30%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.15%) Db2
9 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.15%) SQLite
10 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.08%) OLTP
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (1.08%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.15%) Flyway
2 2 (2.15%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (1.08%) Toad
General
1 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.15%) Banking
4 2 (2.15%) Finance
5 1 (1.08%) Billing
5 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.08%) International Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Legal
5 1 (1.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) Middleware
1 6 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.15%) REST
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Streams
3 1 (1.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.38%) Replication
2 2 (2.15%) Clustering
3 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.58%) Linux
2 19 (20.43%) Unix
3 6 (6.45%) Solaris
4 4 (4.30%) Windows
5 3 (3.23%) AIX
5 3 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) HPUX
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.71%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (25.81%) High Availability
3 19 (20.43%) ITIL
4 15 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (15.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (12.90%) Migration
7 10 (10.75%) Database Security
7 10 (10.75%) Database Tuning
7 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (9.68%) Change Management
9 8 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (7.53%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.53%) SOA
11 6 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (5.38%) Mentoring
12 5 (5.38%) Runbook
12 5 (5.38%) Validation
13 4 (4.30%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 49 (52.69%) SQL
2 19 (20.43%) PL/SQL
3 7 (7.53%) Python
4 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
6 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (65.59%) Security Cleared
2 36 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 31 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.83%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (6.45%) OCP
6 5 (5.38%) Degree
7 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO 9000
2 2 (2.15%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (37.63%) Data Guard
2 29 (31.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 93 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) NetCracker
4 1 (1.08%) Remedy