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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 491 557
Rank change year-on-year -19 +66 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 47 70 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 59
10th Percentile £414 £348 £376
25th Percentile £443 £424 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -23.26%
75th Percentile £600 £684 £525
90th Percentile £711 £700 £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £506 £458
% change year-on-year +8.64% +10.66% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £42.63 - £64.40
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £62.05

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 29,544 35,467 47,344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 92.99% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,645 21,950 32,442
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,552 1,701 1,505
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.73 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%
75th Percentile £51.83 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA 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 15 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 12 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 15 September 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
England +4 40 £556 +11.25% 3
UK excluding London +16 23 £550 +8.64% 1
Work from Home -2 17 £463 -26.00% 2
London -13 15 £510 -9.33% 2
South West +35 9 £693 +10.80%
South East +31 7 £500 +17.65% 1
North of England - 4 £450 -
Yorkshire - 3 £513 -
Midlands -12 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
North West - 1 £450 -

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Oracle
2 41 (87.23%) Oracle Database
3 29 (61.70%) Data Guard
4 27 (57.45%) Oracle RAC
4 27 (57.45%) SQL
5 26 (55.32%) Oracle RMAN
6 21 (44.68%) PL/SQL
7 20 (42.55%) Linux
8 19 (40.43%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (29.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 12 (25.53%) Azure
11 11 (23.40%) Migration
12 10 (21.28%) Oracle Exadata
12 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
12 10 (21.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
12 10 (21.28%) Database Migration
12 10 (21.28%) OCI
13 9 (19.15%) DevOps
13 9 (19.15%) High Availability
13 9 (19.15%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
13 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
14 8 (17.02%) AWS
14 8 (17.02%) Oracle Database 12c
15 7 (14.89%) Windows
15 7 (14.89%) Replication
16 6 (12.77%) Finance

Oracle DBA 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (6.38%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) OCI
3 8 (17.02%) AWS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (87.23%) Oracle Database
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle Exadata
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle Database 12c
3 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.77%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.13%) MySQL
8 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Banking
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Electronics
4 3 (6.38%) Local Government
4 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.38%) Marketing
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) French Language
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.13%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Replication
2 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Clustering
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 6 (12.77%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) AIX
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Solaris
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (23.40%) Migration
3 10 (21.28%) Database Migration
3 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (19.15%) DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (19.15%) High Availability
5 6 (12.77%) Database Security
5 6 (12.77%) Task Automation
6 5 (10.64%) Line Management
7 4 (8.51%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (8.51%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (8.51%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (6.38%) Capacity Management
8 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.38%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.38%) Database Tuning
8 3 (6.38%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) SQL
2 21 (44.68%) PL/SQL
3 5 (10.64%) Python
4 3 (6.38%) Bash
4 3 (6.38%) Perl
4 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) OCP
3 5 (10.64%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) OCA
6 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (57.45%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (61.70%) Data Guard
2 26 (55.32%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (29.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Ansible
5 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (4.26%) Terraform
6 2 (4.26%) yum
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 47 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Delphix
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.26%) Sybase
4 1 (2.13%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.13%) VMware