Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 507 477
Rank change year-on-year -30 -30 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 133 43 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 27 45
10th Percentile £392 £400 £324
25th Percentile £431 £439 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £650
90th Percentile £688 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -54.88%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -54.88%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 49,605 29,863 36,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.22% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,683 18,859 22,977
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,539 1,568 1,933
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.21 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -1.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Oracle DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle DBA job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the UK

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Oracle DBA job vacancies in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 August 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
England -29 119 £550 - 2
UK excluding London -18 102 £550 - 2
North of England -20 49 £500 +11.11% 2
North West -9 30 £480 +6.67% 2
South East -43 29 £550 +10.00%
Work from Home -61 19 £550 +18.92%
Yorkshire -23 18 £600 +17.07%
London -70 15 £525 +9.43%
Midlands -54 10 £506 -
South West -42 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -41 6 £550 -
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland -12 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
North East - 1 £501 -

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 August 2026, Oracle DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Oracle
2 101 (75.94%) Oracle Database
3 80 (60.15%) Security Cleared
4 64 (48.12%) SQL
5 55 (41.35%) SC Cleared
6 50 (37.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 43 (32.33%) Data Guard
7 43 (32.33%) Performance Tuning
8 42 (31.58%) Oracle RAC
9 39 (29.32%) High Availability
10 36 (27.07%) SQL Server
11 32 (24.06%) DV Cleared
12 30 (22.56%) ITIL
13 29 (21.80%) Linux
14 25 (18.80%) PL/SQL
14 25 (18.80%) Unix
15 21 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
16 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (15.04%) Oracle Database 11g
17 19 (14.29%) AWS
18 18 (13.53%) Migration
18 18 (13.53%) Oracle Database 12c
19 16 (12.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
19 16 (12.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
19 16 (12.03%) Root Cause Analysis
20 13 (9.77%) Database Security
20 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
21 12 (9.02%) Database Tuning
22 11 (8.27%) Shell Script
23 10 (7.52%) Azure

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (4.51%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Oracle Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (4.51%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.29%) AWS
2 10 (7.52%) Azure
3 6 (4.51%) OCI
4 1 (0.75%) GCP
4 1 (0.75%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (75.94%) Oracle Database
2 36 (27.07%) SQL Server
3 21 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (15.04%) Oracle Database 11g
5 18 (13.53%) Oracle Database 12c
6 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
6 7 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
7 6 (4.51%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.01%) MySQL
8 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.50%) Db2
9 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.50%) SQLite
10 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) OLTP
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.50%) GitLab
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.75%) Toad
General
1 14 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
4 2 (1.50%) Banking
4 2 (1.50%) Military
5 1 (0.75%) Billing
5 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.75%) International Banking
5 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.26%) Middleware
2 3 (2.26%) Terraform
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.50%) REST
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Replication
2 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.80%) Linux
2 25 (18.80%) Unix
3 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.01%) AIX
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (3.01%) Solaris
4 4 (3.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.75%) HPUX
5 1 (0.75%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (32.33%) Performance Tuning
2 39 (29.32%) High Availability
3 30 (22.56%) ITIL
4 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (13.53%) Migration
6 16 (12.03%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (9.77%) Database Security
8 12 (9.02%) Database Tuning
9 10 (7.52%) Change Management
9 10 (7.52%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.02%) SQL Optimisation
12 7 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (5.26%) Release Management
12 7 (5.26%) Runbook
12 7 (5.26%) Security Patching
12 7 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (4.51%) Service Management
14 5 (3.76%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (3.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.12%) SQL
2 25 (18.80%) PL/SQL
3 11 (8.27%) Shell Script
4 10 (7.52%) Python
5 7 (5.26%) Korn
6 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.50%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) RPG
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (60.15%) Security Cleared
2 55 (41.35%) SC Cleared
3 32 (24.06%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (4.51%) Degree
6 4 (3.01%) OCP
7 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) ISO 9000
2 4 (3.01%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (31.58%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (37.59%) Oracle RMAN
2 43 (32.33%) Data Guard
3 16 (12.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.01%) Ansible
5 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 133 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.50%) Remedy
4 1 (0.75%) EMC
4 1 (0.75%) IBM
4 1 (0.75%) NetCracker