Oracle DBA Contracts in the North of England

Oracle Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the North of England is £575, 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 164 180 211
Rank change year-on-year +16 +31 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £378 £413
25th Percentile - £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile - £438 £538
90th Percentile - - £569
England median daily rate £550 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -6.38% +17.50% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the North of England

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the North of England

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the North of England

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 7
Oracle DBA
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Miro
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) DBeaver
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Google