Oracle DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 424 436
Rank change year-on-year +54 +12 -80
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 21 37 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 50
10th Percentile £324 £379 £325
25th Percentile £359 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £547 £538 £521
90th Percentile £588 £585 £613
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.50% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK excluding London

Oracle DBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Scotland +25 6 £338 -18.18% 3
North of England +30 5 £425 -19.05%
Wales +22 5 £550 - 1
North West +15 5 £425 -15.00%
South East +10 4 £425 -10.53% 1
South West +14 1 £625 +31.58%
Oracle DBA
UK

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Oracle
2 16 (76.19%) Oracle Database
3 11 (52.38%) Data Guard
4 9 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (42.86%) Linux
5 8 (38.10%) SQL
5 8 (38.10%) Migration
5 8 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (33.33%) Database Security
6 7 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 6 (28.57%) High Availability
8 5 (23.81%) E-business
8 5 (23.81%) Security Management
8 5 (23.81%) Finance
8 5 (23.81%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (23.81%) Unix
8 5 (23.81%) AIX
8 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (19.05%) Metadata
9 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (19.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (19.05%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
9 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
9 4 (19.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
10 3 (14.29%) Azure

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
1 3 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) OCI
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) Oracle Database
2 4 (19.05%) Metadata
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database 12c
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) PowerCenter
3 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) DB2
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Blog
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) AIX
2 5 (23.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Migration
1 8 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (33.33%) Database Security
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
4 5 (23.81%) E-business
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Security Management
5 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
5 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
7 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
7 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
7 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.76%) Database Tuning
7 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Certification
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Data Guard
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) SAP