Oracle DBA Contracts in the South East

Oracle Database Administrator
England > South East

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the South East is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 194 205
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 5 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.037% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.040% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £503 - £361
25th Percentile £506 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £394
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +7.94% -21.25%
75th Percentile £556 £438 £422
90th Percentile £568 - £488
England median daily rate £550 £481 £413
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -21.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,105 5,045 5,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.33% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,008 3,019 3,803
10th Percentile £213 £255 £228
25th Percentile £375 £406 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +2.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £663 £697 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 466 254
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £54.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.94% +9.88% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.24 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £41.27 £44.00
% change year-on-year -33.66% -6.22% +76.00%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the South East

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the South East

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the South East

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Berkshire +26 4 £500 +17.65%
Thames Valley +24 4 £500 +17.65%
Hampshire - 1 £500 -
Surrey - 1 £550 - 1
Oracle DBA
England

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 South East region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (60.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) ERP
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) OCI
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Miro
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) DBeaver
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase