Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.36% - -
As % of the System Software category 3.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £452 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 263 248 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.60% 15.15% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 162 250
10th Percentile £249 £207 £148
25th Percentile £320 £366 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.63% -1.03%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £608
90th Percentile £625 £675 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile £24.10 - £18.14
25th Percentile £27.34 £55.87 £20.52
Median hourly rate £79.50 £56.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% +13.49% -13.04%
75th Percentile £96.25 £57.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £101.65 - £67.66
South East median hourly rate £66.75 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -7.60% +30.55%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle RAC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the Thames Valley

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Berkshire - 9 £420 - 7
Oracle RAC
South East

Oracle RAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Database
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) DBA
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Database Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) OpenVMS
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) Release Management
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) AI
5 1 (11.11%) Budget Responsibility
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) Line Management
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Korn
1 7 (77.78%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat