Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends in Reading

Oracle Database Administrator
Berkshire > Reading

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in Reading is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.68% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £563 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 685 922 952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.60% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 540 636
10th Percentile £325 £324 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.05% -0.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £653 £700 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £49.38 £59.21
25th Percentile £23.81 £57.58 £60.93
Median hourly rate £80.00 £66.26 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +20.73% +4.70% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £73.57 £65.63
90th Percentile £99.50 £81.18 £67.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £43.96 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -25.50% -3.98% +96.63%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in Reading

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA in Reading over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in Reading

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 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 Reading region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) OCP
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle BI EE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) OCP
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 2 (40.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat