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 £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 371 400
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 20 21 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 25
10th Percentile £456 £324 £383
25th Percentile £489 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £711 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £585 £561
UK median daily rate £518 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +5.61% -2.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.86% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,434 19,075 22,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 92.25% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,264 11,515 15,151
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,318 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.86 £13.53
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +78.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £26.13 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.69% -5.88% +65.50%

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 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
South West +42 9 £693 +10.80% 1
South East +41 5 £525 +23.53% 1
North of England +6 3 £513 +20.59%
Midlands +7 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West +7 1 £450 +5.88%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Oracle DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (95.00%) Oracle Database
3 16 (80.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 13 (65.00%) Data Guard
5 12 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (55.00%) SQL
7 9 (45.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 9 (45.00%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
9 7 (35.00%) Windows
10 6 (30.00%) Unix
10 6 (30.00%) Linux
10 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
10 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (30.00%) High Availability
10 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (25.00%) OCI
11 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
11 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
11 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (25.00%) Line Management
12 4 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (20.00%) OCP
12 4 (20.00%) Finance
12 4 (20.00%) Migration
12 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (15.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) OCI
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) DBeaver
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Line Management
3 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 4 (20.00%) Database Security
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Database Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (15.00%) ERP
5 3 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (15.00%) SOA
5 3 (15.00%) Workflow
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) OCP
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (65.00%) Data Guard
3 9 (45.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase