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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 486 515
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +109
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 129 36 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 22 43
10th Percentile £365 £378 £324
25th Percentile £436 £428 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £568 £644
90th Percentile £675 £575 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £28.00

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 44,984 26,371 39,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.30% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,456 17,159 25,763
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,981 1,009 2,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.04 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.97% -37.13% -5.88%

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 May 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 May 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 -30 117 £550 +4.76% 9
UK excluding London -32 93 £550 +10.00% 8
North of England -38 36 £650 +26.83%
South East -31 32 £550 +10.00% 4
London -59 25 £500 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire -35 20 £525 -8.70%
Work from Home -38 20 £550 +10.00% 3
North West -26 15 £650 +44.44%
Midlands - 15 £525 -
West Midlands - 11 £550 -
South West - 5 £606 - 2
Scotland -1 3 £550 +8.64%
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Northern Ireland +2 1 £675 -
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
North East - 1 £501 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 129 (100.00%) Oracle
2 111 (86.05%) Oracle Database
3 62 (48.06%) Security Cleared
4 50 (38.76%) Oracle RMAN
5 48 (37.21%) SQL
6 42 (32.56%) High Availability
7 41 (31.78%) SC Cleared
8 34 (26.36%) Oracle RAC
9 32 (24.81%) Performance Tuning
10 31 (24.03%) Data Guard
10 31 (24.03%) Linux
11 28 (21.71%) SQL Server
12 27 (20.93%) PL/SQL
13 25 (19.38%) Unix
14 23 (17.83%) AWS
14 23 (17.83%) DV Cleared
14 23 (17.83%) Migration
15 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (13.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
17 17 (13.18%) ITIL
17 17 (13.18%) Oracle Database 12c
18 16 (12.40%) Oracle GoldenGate
18 16 (12.40%) Shell Script
19 15 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
19 15 (11.63%) Oracle Database 11g
20 14 (10.85%) Oracle EBS
20 14 (10.85%) Oracle Reports
20 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
21 12 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
22 11 (8.53%) Oracle Applications

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 8 (6.20%) WebLogic
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.55%) Liferay
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (8.53%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (6.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (2.33%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.83%) AWS
2 9 (6.98%) Azure
2 9 (6.98%) OCI
3 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.33%) Azure Storage
4 3 (2.33%) PaaS
5 2 (1.55%) IaaS
6 1 (0.78%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (86.05%) Oracle Database
2 28 (21.71%) SQL Server
3 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (13.18%) Oracle Database 12c
5 15 (11.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 14 (10.85%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (6.98%) MySQL
9 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (5.43%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.10%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database 10g
10 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.10%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
2 10 (7.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.20%) Finance
4 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.55%) Banking
4 2 (1.55%) Legal
4 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.78%) Billing
5 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.78%) International Banking
5 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.78%) Military
5 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.40%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.33%) Middleware
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.55%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Cloud
1 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.55%) Replication
4 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.78%) Life Science
4 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.03%) Linux
2 25 (19.38%) Unix
3 8 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.88%) Windows
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (2.33%) AIX
7 2 (1.55%) Solaris
7 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.78%) HPUX
8 1 (0.78%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.56%) High Availability
2 32 (24.81%) Performance Tuning
3 23 (17.83%) Migration
4 17 (13.18%) ITIL
5 15 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.75%) Database Tuning
7 10 (7.75%) DevOps
7 10 (7.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (7.75%) Release Management
8 9 (6.98%) Data Migration
8 9 (6.98%) Database Security
9 8 (6.20%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (6.20%) Runbook
9 8 (6.20%) Task Automation
10 7 (5.43%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (4.65%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (4.65%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (4.65%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (4.65%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 48 (37.21%) SQL
2 27 (20.93%) PL/SQL
3 16 (12.40%) Shell Script
4 10 (7.75%) Korn
5 8 (6.20%) Python
6 2 (1.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) JCL
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) RPG
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (48.06%) Security Cleared
2 41 (31.78%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.83%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (3.88%) OCP
6 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.55%) Degree
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) SLA
3 3 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 34 (26.36%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.33%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 50 (38.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 31 (24.03%) Data Guard
3 18 (13.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.55%) Foglight
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.55%) systemd
5 2 (1.55%) Terraform
6 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 129 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.10%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.78%) Commvault
4 1 (0.78%) EMC
4 1 (0.78%) IBM
4 1 (0.78%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.78%) Wonderware