Oracle DBA Contracts

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 491 516 620
Rank change year-on-year +25 +104 +32
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 29 66 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 58
10th Percentile £389 £363 £400
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £538
90th Percentile £585 £700 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.00 -

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 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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 9 Contract 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 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
England +29 19 £550 -6.38% 9
London +19 14 £525 -11.58% 5
Work from Home +12 10 £500 -9.09% 16
UK excluding London +51 9 £513 +20.59% 5
Scotland +11 4 £506 +50.00%
South East +44 2 - - 5
North of England +16 2 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire - 2 £575 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 25 (86.21%) Oracle Database
3 22 (75.86%) SQL
4 16 (55.17%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (48.28%) PL/SQL
6 13 (44.83%) High Availability
7 12 (41.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (37.93%) Oracle RAC
8 11 (37.93%) Migration
9 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
10 7 (24.14%) AWS
10 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (24.14%) Linux
10 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
11 6 (20.69%) Data Guard
12 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (17.24%) Azure
12 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
12 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (17.24%) Database Security
12 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
12 5 (17.24%) DevOps
12 5 (17.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (13.79%) Python
13 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
13 4 (13.79%) Replication
13 4 (13.79%) Database Optimisation
13 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database 11g

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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.45%) iTrent
3 1 (3.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) OCI
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Miro
5 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (86.21%) Oracle Database
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.90%) MySQL
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (3.45%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) DBeaver
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Back Office
4 1 (3.45%) French Language
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Licensing
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) Solaris
3 2 (6.90%) Windows
4 1 (3.45%) AIX
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (44.83%) High Availability
3 11 (37.93%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Database Security
5 5 (17.24%) DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (13.79%) Database Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Database Optimisation
6 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Analytics
7 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Software Licensing
7 3 (10.34%) Validation
8 2 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) SQL
2 14 (48.28%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.90%) VB
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) JCL
5 1 (3.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) OCP
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (20.69%) Data Guard
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Commvault
3 1 (3.45%) Sybase
3 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media
3 1 (3.45%) VMware