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 £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 123 128
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 15 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.052% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.056% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £625 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £684 - £438
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £569
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.69% +17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
England median hourly rate - - £28.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 3,032 1,800 2,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.93% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 1,197 1,625
10th Percentile £300 £250 £274
25th Percentile £393 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.62% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £585
90th Percentile £675 £656 £675
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 107 276
10th Percentile £18.57 £13.00 £11.07
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.44 £13.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.27 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.82% -0.78% -3.41%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £46.91
90th Percentile £84.50 £83.85 £69.89
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

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 23 May 2026. 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 -20 15 £650 +44.44%
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 23 May 2026, 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 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (73.33%) Oracle Database
3 10 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (46.67%) AWS
5 7 (46.67%) Migration
6 6 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (33.33%) High Availability
7 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 5 (33.33%) QA
7 5 (33.33%) SQL
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Optimisation
9 2 (13.33%) Linux
9 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
10 1 (6.67%) Agile
10 1 (6.67%) AIX
10 1 (6.67%) Ansible
10 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
10 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
10 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
10 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
10 1 (6.67%) GitLab
10 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 1 (6.67%) Kernel Tuning
10 1 (6.67%) OCI
10 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata

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 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Oracle Database
2 10 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Military
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Kernel Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Runbook
5 1 (6.67%) Security Hardening
5 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle