Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 511 559
Rank change year-on-year +2 +48 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 56 52 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 59
10th Percentile £330 £313 £380
25th Percentile £425 £414 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £496 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +18.86% -20.48%
75th Percentile £590 £650 £538
90th Percentile £696 £700 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -5.13% +2.63% -5.00%
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 30,238 34,964 44,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 92.96% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,083 21,110 30,627
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,669 1,427 1,528
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.05 £14.60
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% -8.89% +69.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.76% -6.74% +97.78%

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 16 October 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 16 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 13 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 16 October 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 +27 48 £550 +11.68% 15
UK excluding London +8 33 £463 -5.13% 15
Work from Home +7 18 £463 -28.85% 9
London -6 12 £565 +13.90%
North of England -15 9 £365 - 8
South West - 9 £693 -
Yorkshire - 8 £358 - 7
South East - 7 £500 - 3
Midlands -15 6 £333 -21.76% 4
West Midlands - 6 £333 - 3
Wales +3 1 - -
North West -16 1 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, 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 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 50 (89.29%) Oracle Database
3 30 (53.57%) Data Guard
4 28 (50.00%) SQL
5 27 (48.21%) Oracle RAC
5 27 (48.21%) Oracle RMAN
6 23 (41.07%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (39.29%) PL/SQL
8 21 (37.50%) Linux
9 15 (26.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 12 (21.43%) Azure
10 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
11 11 (19.64%) DevOps
11 11 (19.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (19.64%) Python
11 11 (19.64%) Unix
12 10 (17.86%) AWS
12 10 (17.86%) High Availability
12 10 (17.86%) Migration
12 10 (17.86%) OCI
12 10 (17.86%) Oracle Exadata
12 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
13 9 (16.07%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (16.07%) Oracle Database 12c
14 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (14.29%) Database Migration
14 8 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (14.29%) Line Management
14 8 (14.29%) MySQL

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 3 (5.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (5.36%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) OCI
3 3 (5.36%) SaaS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (89.29%) Oracle Database
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle Exadata
3 9 (16.07%) Oracle Database 12c
4 8 (14.29%) MySQL
4 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 7 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 6 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (8.93%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (7.14%) RDBMS
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.36%) Electronics
5 3 (5.36%) Local Government
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Back Office
7 1 (1.79%) French Language
7 1 (1.79%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.57%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
1 7 (12.50%) Replication
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Unix
3 7 (12.50%) Windows
4 3 (5.36%) Solaris
5 1 (1.79%) AIX
5 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) DevOps
4 10 (17.86%) High Availability
4 10 (17.86%) Migration
5 9 (16.07%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (14.29%) Line Management
7 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.71%) Agile
8 6 (10.71%) Database Security
8 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
9 5 (8.93%) Change Management
9 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
10 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 3 (5.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) SQL
2 22 (39.29%) PL/SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 8 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 3 (5.36%) Perl
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) OCP
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) OCA
6 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (48.21%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (53.57%) Data Guard
2 27 (48.21%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (26.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Ansible
5 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (5.36%) Terraform
6 2 (3.57%) yum
7 1 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Delphix
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Sybase
5 1 (1.79%) EMC
5 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media