Oracle DBA Contracts in London

Oracle Database Administrator
England > London

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in London is £525, 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 339 358 462
Rank change year-on-year +19 +104 +54
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 14 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 13
10th Percentile £344 - £438
25th Percentile £419 £544 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +18.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £556
90th Percentile £600 £850 £635
England median daily rate £550 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -6.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in London

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in London

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in London

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in London

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 2 £481 -19.79%
Oracle DBA
England

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

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 London region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 12 (85.71%) Oracle Database
3 8 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 8 (57.14%) High Availability
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (42.86%) Migration
6 5 (35.71%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (35.71%) Linux
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (28.57%) Database Security
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (21.43%) Data Guard
8 3 (21.43%) Azure
8 3 (21.43%) AWS
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
8 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (21.43%) OCI
8 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (21.43%) Database Optimisation
9 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (14.29%) DevOps
9 2 (14.29%) Database Migration
9 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
9 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) iTrent
1 1 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) OCI
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Oracle Database
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Sybase ASE
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) French Language
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Solaris
3 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) High Availability
2 7 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Database Security
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (7.14%) Database Tuning
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.14%) Investment Management
7 1 (7.14%) Open Source
7 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) OCP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Data Guard
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) Virgin Media
3 1 (7.14%) VMware