Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in the North West

Oracle Database Administrator
England > North West

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the North West is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 121 144
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.045% 0.041% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.044% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £407
25th Percentile - - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £458
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.68%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £530 £493 £400
% change year-on-year +7.61% +23.13% -25.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,010 2,263 2,630
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 93.82% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,207 1,819
10th Percentile £250 £267 £270
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £685 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.14% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 158 177
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.58 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +14.60% +34.24%
75th Percentile £47.12 £55.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.10 £73.80 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +68.69%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in the North West

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the North West

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the North West

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Manchester - 1 £450 -
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 North West region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle