Oracle RAC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Oracle RAC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle RAC over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 382 410
Rank change year-on-year +62 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 20 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.048% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.10% 0.40% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 24
10th Percentile £433 - £429
25th Percentile £500 £324 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +55.57% -33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £589 £508 £575
90th Percentile £656 £556 -
UK median daily rate £550 £485 £504
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.77% -4.00%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,823 2,476 3,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.11% 11.96% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,695 2,415
10th Percentile £200 £181 £181
25th Percentile £313 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 189 170
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £16.56
Median hourly rate £32.32 £24.18 £49.20
Median % change year-on-year +33.67% -50.85% +181.14%
75th Percentile £69.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.08 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £24.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +17.49% -56.04% +189.47%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Oracle RAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle RAC in the UK excluding London

Oracle RAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK excluding London

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the UK excluding London

Oracle RAC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK excluding London

Oracle RAC
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 RAC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Scotland +11 10 £560 +65.78%
South East - 6 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +21 3 £388 -20.00%
North of England +14 3 £388 -20.00%
South West - 1 - - 3
Oracle RAC
UK

Oracle RAC
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 5 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (20.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) OCI
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Back Office
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) DBA
2 8 (40.00%) Database Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) IT Technical Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Replication
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Licensing
3 4 (20.00%) Clustering
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (30.00%) Solaris
3 6 (30.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) AIX
5 4 (20.00%) Unix
6 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (50.00%) High Availability
3 9 (45.00%) Database Tuning
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (30.00%) Database Migration
5 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) Software Licensing
6 5 (25.00%) Workflow
7 4 (20.00%) ERP
7 4 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (20.00%) Service Management
7 4 (20.00%) SOA
7 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (15.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Perl
2 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Data Guard
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (20.00%) Dell
3 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Commvault