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 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 469 505
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 +115
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 60 19 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.071% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.077% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 4 36
10th Percentile £316 - £371
25th Percentile £365 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £569 £588 £575
90th Percentile £606 £655 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.70
Median hourly rate - - £62.05
75th Percentile - - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05

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 30,104 24,750 34,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.03% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,189 15,273 23,378
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,859 740 1,933
10th Percentile £14.84 £15.99 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -13.33% +7.14%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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
London -22 18 £500 - 1
South East -18 12 £510 - 1
Midlands - 12 £365 -
West Midlands - 12 £365 -
North of England -52 9 £358 - 3
Yorkshire - 8 £350 - 1
South West - 5 £606 - 1
North West -23 1 £375 - 2
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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 60 (100.00%) Oracle
2 55 (91.67%) Oracle Database
3 30 (50.00%) SQL
4 23 (38.33%) PL/SQL
5 19 (31.67%) Data Guard
5 19 (31.67%) Oracle RAC
5 19 (31.67%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 17 (28.33%) Migration
8 15 (25.00%) Linux
8 15 (25.00%) MySQL
8 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 14 (23.33%) High Availability
10 13 (21.67%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (21.67%) AWS
10 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (20.00%) Python
11 12 (20.00%) Unix
12 11 (18.33%) Azure
12 11 (18.33%) DevOps
12 11 (18.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (18.33%) Shell Script
13 10 (16.67%) Data Migration
14 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (15.00%) Oracle Exadata
14 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (13.33%) DV Cleared
15 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
15 8 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
16 7 (11.67%) Statistics

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 (6.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.33%) Liferay
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 11 (18.33%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 3 (5.00%) OCI
4 3 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (3.33%) IaaS
5 2 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (91.67%) Oracle Database
2 15 (25.00%) MySQL
3 13 (21.67%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (15.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 6 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (6.67%) DynamoDB
7 4 (6.67%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (6.67%) SQLPlus
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Toad
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Back Office
5 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (10.00%) Replication
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Solaris
4 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (28.33%) Migration
3 14 (23.33%) High Availability
4 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) DevOps
6 10 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.67%) Statistics
9 6 (10.00%) Change Management
9 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (10.00%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.33%) Agile
10 5 (8.33%) Database Tuning
10 5 (8.33%) Line Management
10 5 (8.33%) Patch Management
11 4 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (6.67%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) SQL
2 23 (38.33%) PL/SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Python
4 11 (18.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 3 (5.00%) Perl
5 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) OCP
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (31.67%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.00%) NFS
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Data Guard
2 18 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (18.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (3.33%) Foglight
5 2 (3.33%) systemd
6 1 (1.67%) Ansible
6 1 (1.67%) yum
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) EMC
4 1 (1.67%) NEC
4 1 (1.67%) Sybase