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 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 487 553
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 37 59 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 39
10th Percentile £421 £338 £358
25th Percentile £456 £411 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £413
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -21.43%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £525
90th Percentile £713 £850 £565
UK median daily rate £518 £509 £488
% change year-on-year +1.72% +4.36% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.86% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

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 25,186 33,515 44,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.98% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,387 22,034 31,463
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 2,292 1,392
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.52 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +13 17 £518 -17.20% 3
South West +47 9 £693 +10.80%
South East +28 5 £525 +23.53% 1
North of England +3 3 £513 +20.59% 1
Midlands -3 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West +1 1 £450 +5.88%
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 37 (100.00%) Oracle
2 34 (91.89%) Oracle Database
3 24 (64.86%) SQL
4 23 (62.16%) Oracle RMAN
5 20 (54.05%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (54.05%) Data Guard
6 18 (48.65%) Oracle RAC
7 17 (45.95%) PL/SQL
8 14 (37.84%) Linux
8 14 (37.84%) High Availability
9 12 (32.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 10 (27.03%) Migration
10 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
11 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
11 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (24.32%) OCI
12 8 (21.62%) Database Migration
12 8 (21.62%) AWS
12 8 (21.62%) Database Security
12 8 (21.62%) Oracle Database 12c
13 7 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
13 7 (18.92%) Azure
13 7 (18.92%) Windows
13 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
13 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
14 6 (16.22%) Unix
14 6 (16.22%) Finance
14 6 (16.22%) DevOps
15 5 (13.51%) Line Management

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 3 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (8.11%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) OCI
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Azure
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Miro
4 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (91.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (21.62%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) DBeaver
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Electronics
4 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) French Language
6 1 (2.70%) Back Office
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 6 (16.22%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) AIX
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (37.84%) High Availability
3 10 (27.03%) Migration
4 9 (24.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (21.62%) Database Migration
5 8 (21.62%) Database Security
6 7 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) DevOps
7 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Line Management
9 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.81%) Database Tuning
10 3 (8.11%) Capacity Management
10 3 (8.11%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (8.11%) ERP
10 3 (8.11%) Programme Management
10 3 (8.11%) SOA
10 3 (8.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 17 (45.95%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) OCP
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) OCA
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (54.05%) Data Guard
3 12 (32.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (5.41%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Delphix
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase
4 1 (2.70%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.70%) VMware