Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 508 524
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +90
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 59 34 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 11 56
10th Percentile £316 £450 £380
25th Percentile £356 £472 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £513 £421
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +21.66% -16.58%
75th Percentile £569 £669 £555
90th Percentile £610 £700 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £432 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -15.66% +5.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £31.00 - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.05

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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

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 1 January 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 14 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 1 January 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 -20 48 £442 -29.24% 14
UK excluding London -13 40 £432 -15.66% 12
Work from Home -5 17 £450 -28.00% 3
South East +1 12 £510 -
West Midlands - 11 £365 - 4
Midlands - 11 £365 - 4
North of England -45 10 £358 - 3
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
London -32 8 £563 -10.00% 4
South West - 3 £463 - 3
Scotland +11 2 £550 +7.32% 1
North West -26 1 £375 - 3
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 59 (100.00%) Oracle
2 54 (91.53%) Oracle Database
3 32 (54.24%) SQL
4 25 (42.37%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (37.29%) Data Guard
5 22 (37.29%) PL/SQL
6 21 (35.59%) Oracle RAC
6 21 (35.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 18 (30.51%) Linux
8 16 (27.12%) Migration
9 15 (25.42%) Azure
9 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (23.73%) DevOps
10 14 (23.73%) Python
11 13 (22.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 13 (22.03%) Shell Script
12 12 (20.34%) Unix
13 11 (18.64%) AWS
13 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (18.64%) MySQL
14 10 (16.95%) High Availability
15 9 (15.25%) Oracle Exadata
15 9 (15.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
15 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
16 8 (13.56%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (11.86%) Agile
17 7 (11.86%) Change Management
17 7 (11.86%) Oracle Database 12c

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 4 (6.78%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.39%) Liferay
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.69%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) OCI
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.08%) SaaS
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) IaaS
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (91.53%) Oracle Database
2 11 (18.64%) MySQL
3 9 (15.25%) Oracle Exadata
4 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (13.56%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (11.86%) Oracle Database 12c
6 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.78%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (6.78%) SQLPlus
9 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Toad
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Local Government
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Back Office
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.39%) FastAPI
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.69%) JSON
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) Replication
3 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Linux
2 12 (20.34%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Solaris
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (27.12%) Migration
3 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (23.73%) DevOps
5 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.95%) High Availability
7 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.86%) Agile
9 7 (11.86%) Change Management
9 7 (11.86%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
10 6 (10.17%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (8.47%) Data Migration
11 5 (8.47%) Line Management
11 5 (8.47%) Statistics
12 4 (6.78%) Database Tuning
12 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (6.78%) Proactive Monitoring
12 4 (6.78%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) SQL
2 22 (37.29%) PL/SQL
3 14 (23.73%) Python
4 13 (22.03%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.08%) Bash
5 3 (5.08%) Perl
5 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
6 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) OCP
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) OCA
5 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.08%) NFS
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Data Guard
2 21 (35.59%) Oracle RMAN
3 13 (22.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (5.08%) Ansible
5 2 (3.39%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) systemd
5 2 (3.39%) yum
6 1 (1.69%) Foglight
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Delphix
4 1 (1.69%) EMC
4 1 (1.69%) NEC
4 1 (1.69%) Sybase