Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Oracle Database Administrator
England > London

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in London is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 356 380
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 +155
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 7 32 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 36
10th Percentile £520 £450 £369
25th Percentile £543 £463 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £391
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +59.85% -26.40%
75th Percentile £598 £700 £538
90th Percentile £617 - £631
England median daily rate £463 £563 £405
% change year-on-year -17.78% +38.89% -23.76%

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 13,117 14,903 18,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.66% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,695 9,654 13,305
10th Percentile £333 £340 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -2.22% -2.51%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £799 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 164 216
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.33 £21.69
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.76% +3.26%
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.77 £81.05 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +38.46%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in London

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in London

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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 London region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (71.43%) Data Guard
3 5 (71.43%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 4 (57.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (57.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (42.86%) Azure
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
6 2 (28.57%) Bash
6 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 2 (28.57%) Python
6 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (14.29%) AIX
7 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 1 (14.29%) Delphix
7 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (14.29%) ETL
7 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Data Guard
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Delphix
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat