Oracle Database Engineer Contracts

Oracle Database Engineer
UK

The median Oracle Database Engineer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 572 713
Rank change year-on-year +69 +141 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Database Engineer 17 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.023% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 2
10th Percentile £364 - £479
25th Percentile £394 £544 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £588 £563
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +4.44% -6.25%
75th Percentile £571 £631 £628
90th Percentile £588 - £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -11.35% +21.05% -20.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Oracle Database Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database Engineer in the UK

Oracle Database Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database Engineer in the UK

Oracle Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database Engineer in the UK

Oracle Database Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database Engineer in the UK

Oracle Database Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +72 12 £510 -11.35%
England +61 11 £396 -32.60%
Yorkshire - 9 £400 -
North of England - 9 £400 -
Work from Home - 8 £400 - 1
Scotland +13 3 £575 -0.09%
London +32 1 £325 -44.68%

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Oracle Database Engineer 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 featuring Oracle Database Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (82.35%) Oracle Database
3 13 (76.47%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (58.82%) Ansible
5 9 (52.94%) Finance
6 8 (47.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
6 8 (47.06%) Data Guard
7 7 (41.18%) vSphere
7 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
8 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
8 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (29.41%) VMware
8 5 (29.41%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
9 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (23.53%) Change Management
9 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (23.53%) OCP
9 4 (23.53%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
9 4 (23.53%) Windows
9 4 (23.53%) Linux
9 4 (23.53%) Database Security
9 4 (23.53%) High Availability
9 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (23.53%) OCI
10 3 (17.65%) Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) OCI
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) Oracle Database
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
1 3 (17.65%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) AIX
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) Database Security
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Database Tuning
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (17.65%) Security Patching
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Database Migration
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Software Licensing
5 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) OCP
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) vSphere
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
2 8 (47.06%) Data Guard
2 8 (47.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) Sybase