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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 519 502
Rank change year-on-year -49 -17 +51
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 116 49 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 31 33
10th Percentile £418 £419 £331
25th Percentile £490 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.53%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £673
90th Percentile £690 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £506
% change year-on-year - +8.64% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

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 50,385 30,076 35,581
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 91.01% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,746 18,991 21,622
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,923 1,619 1,598
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -56 98 £550 -2.22% 23
UK excluding London -40 79 £550 - 13
North of England -41 30 £480 +6.67% 10
Work from Home -44 23 £550 +18.92% 10
South East -50 23 £550 +10.00%
North West -31 22 £457 +1.44% 8
London -76 17 £530 +3.92% 10
Midlands -29 10 £506 - 1
South West -32 9 £760 +9.75% 1
Yorkshire -42 7 £625 +21.95%
West Midlands -41 6 £550 -
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 1
Scotland -23 2 £375 - 1
East of England - 2 £487 -
North East - 1 £501 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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.

1 116 (100.00%) Oracle
2 92 (79.31%) Oracle Database
3 79 (68.10%) Security Cleared
4 64 (55.17%) SQL
5 54 (46.55%) SC Cleared
6 42 (36.21%) Data Guard
6 42 (36.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 41 (35.34%) Performance Tuning
8 35 (30.17%) Oracle RAC
9 32 (27.59%) DV Cleared
10 31 (26.72%) PL/SQL
11 30 (25.86%) High Availability
12 29 (25.00%) Linux
12 29 (25.00%) SQL Server
12 29 (25.00%) Unix
13 25 (21.55%) ITIL
13 25 (21.55%) Oracle Database 11g
14 22 (18.97%) AWS
15 20 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (12.93%) Oracle Database 12c
17 15 (12.93%) Oracle EBS
17 15 (12.93%) Root Cause Analysis
18 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
18 14 (12.07%) Migration
18 14 (12.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
19 13 (11.21%) Database Security
19 13 (11.21%) Oracle Database 10g
19 13 (11.21%) WebLogic
20 12 (10.34%) Database Tuning

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 13 (11.21%) WebLogic
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (5.17%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (12.93%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle Applications
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (5.17%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.86%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.97%) AWS
2 10 (8.62%) Azure
3 6 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
3 6 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (5.17%) Serverless
4 5 (4.31%) OCI
5 1 (0.86%) GCP
5 1 (0.86%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (79.31%) Oracle Database
2 29 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 25 (21.55%) Oracle Database 11g
4 16 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (12.93%) Oracle Database 12c
6 13 (11.21%) Oracle Database 10g
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (5.17%) Oracle Exadata
8 6 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (4.31%) MySQL
10 3 (2.59%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.72%) Db2
11 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.72%) SQLite
12 1 (0.86%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.86%) Oracle8/8i Database
12 1 (0.86%) Oracle9i Database
12 1 (0.86%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.45%) Flyway
2 4 (3.45%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.86%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.86%) Toad
General
1 13 (11.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.45%) Finance
4 3 (2.59%) Legal
5 2 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Billing
6 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.86%) International Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (4.31%) Middleware
3 2 (1.72%) REST
3 2 (1.72%) Terraform
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Replication
2 6 (5.17%) Clustering
3 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.00%) Linux
1 29 (25.00%) Unix
2 6 (5.17%) Solaris
3 4 (3.45%) Windows
4 3 (2.59%) AIX
5 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.86%) HPUX
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.34%) Performance Tuning
2 30 (25.86%) High Availability
3 25 (21.55%) ITIL
4 20 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (12.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (12.07%) Migration
7 13 (11.21%) Database Security
8 12 (10.34%) Database Tuning
9 11 (9.48%) Change Management
9 11 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.62%) DevOps
10 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.62%) SOA
11 8 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (6.03%) Agile
12 7 (6.03%) Runbook
12 7 (6.03%) Security Patching
13 6 (5.17%) Incident Management
13 6 (5.17%) JVM Tuning
Programming Languages
1 64 (55.17%) SQL
2 31 (26.72%) PL/SQL
3 9 (7.76%) Python
4 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.72%) Bash
7 1 (0.86%) Korn
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) RPG
7 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (68.10%) Security Cleared
2 54 (46.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.48%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (5.17%) OCP
6 5 (4.31%) Degree
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) ISO 9000
1 4 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (36.21%) Data Guard
1 42 (36.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (12.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (2.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.86%) Nagios
Vendors
1 116 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.72%) Remedy
4 1 (0.86%) IBM
4 1 (0.86%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat