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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 517 499
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 +100
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 139 44 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 30 50
10th Percentile £392 £414 £324
25th Percentile £429 £443 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £509
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +1.72% +7.11%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £667
90th Percentile £688 £711 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £425
% change year-on-year -2.22% +32.35% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -

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 48,822 29,919 38,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.60% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,449 19,032 24,743
10th Percentile £325 £285 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,293 1,436 2,397
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% +6.78%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -30 124 £550 - 11
UK excluding London -10 106 £550 -2.22% 11
North of England -25 49 £500 -2.39% 9
South East -41 32 £550 +4.76% 2
North West -19 27 £500 +11.11% 7
Yorkshire -30 21 £445 -22.57% 2
Work from Home -58 19 £550 +18.92% 5
London -64 18 £501 -3.29%
Midlands -47 10 £506 -
South West -37 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -56 6 £550 -
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
North East - 1 £501 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Oracle
2 110 (79.14%) Oracle Database
3 81 (58.27%) Security Cleared
4 59 (42.45%) SQL
5 53 (38.13%) SC Cleared
6 51 (36.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 44 (31.65%) SQL Server
8 40 (28.78%) High Availability
8 40 (28.78%) Oracle RAC
8 40 (28.78%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (28.06%) Data Guard
10 33 (23.74%) DV Cleared
11 32 (23.02%) ITIL
11 32 (23.02%) Linux
12 29 (20.86%) Unix
13 21 (15.11%) Oracle Database 11g
13 21 (15.11%) PL/SQL
13 21 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (14.39%) AWS
14 20 (14.39%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (14.39%) Oracle Database 12c
15 19 (13.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 18 (12.95%) Migration
17 17 (12.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
18 16 (11.51%) Root Cause Analysis
19 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
20 14 (10.07%) Shell Script
21 13 (9.35%) Database Security
22 12 (8.63%) Azure
22 12 (8.63%) Problem-Solving

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 (4.32%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Oracle Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (4.32%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.39%) AWS
2 12 (8.63%) Azure
3 7 (5.04%) OCI
4 1 (0.72%) GCP
4 1 (0.72%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.72%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (79.14%) Oracle Database
2 44 (31.65%) SQL Server
3 21 (15.11%) Oracle Database 11g
3 21 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (14.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 9 (6.47%) Oracle Database 10g
6 8 (5.76%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (5.04%) Oracle Exadata
8 6 (4.32%) MySQL
9 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.44%) Db2
11 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.44%) SQLite
12 1 (0.72%) Oracle8/8i Database
12 1 (0.72%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.44%) GitLab
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.72%) Toad
General
1 13 (9.35%) Public Sector
1 13 (9.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.76%) Finance
4 2 (1.44%) Banking
4 2 (1.44%) Military
4 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.72%) Billing
5 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.72%) International Banking
5 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.72%) Legal
5 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.16%) Middleware
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.44%) REST
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.04%) Replication
2 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.72%) Life Science
5 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.02%) Linux
2 29 (20.86%) Unix
3 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.32%) Windows
4 5 (3.60%) Solaris
5 4 (2.88%) AIX
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) HPUX
7 1 (0.72%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.78%) High Availability
1 40 (28.78%) Performance Tuning
2 32 (23.02%) ITIL
3 20 (14.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (12.95%) Migration
5 16 (11.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (9.35%) Database Security
7 12 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (7.19%) Database Tuning
8 10 (7.19%) Release Management
9 9 (6.47%) Change Management
9 9 (6.47%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (5.04%) SQL Optimisation
12 6 (4.32%) Runbook
12 6 (4.32%) Security Hardening
12 6 (4.32%) Security Patching
12 6 (4.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (3.60%) Incident Management
13 5 (3.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (42.45%) SQL
2 21 (15.11%) PL/SQL
3 14 (10.07%) Shell Script
4 10 (7.19%) Korn
5 9 (6.47%) Python
6 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.44%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) JCL
8 1 (0.72%) Perl
8 1 (0.72%) RPG
8 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (58.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (38.13%) SC Cleared
3 33 (23.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.47%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (3.60%) Degree
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.16%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) QA
1 7 (5.04%) SLA
2 4 (2.88%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (28.78%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (36.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 39 (28.06%) Data Guard
3 19 (13.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (2.88%) Ansible
5 3 (2.16%) Terraform
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 139 (100.00%) Oracle
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.44%) Remedy
4 1 (0.72%) Commvault
4 1 (0.72%) EMC
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.72%) Wonderware