Senior Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Oracle Database Administrator
England > London

The median Senior Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in London is £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Oracle DBA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 - -
75th Percentile £555 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
England median daily rate £536 - -

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 12,950 14,681 18,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.66% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,600 9,530 13,307
10th Percentile £335 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £790
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £59.69
90th Percentile £75.79 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

Senior Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Oracle DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in London

Senior Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Senior Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Senior Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Delphix
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Delphix
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat