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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 490 517
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +83
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 123 36 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 22 39
10th Percentile £365 £378 £360
25th Percentile £433 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £568 £650
90th Percentile £675 £575 £730
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 44,544 26,886 39,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,258 17,494 25,719
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,901 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.88% -34.16% -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 21 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 21 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 -17 112 £550 +4.76% 9
UK excluding London -27 90 £550 +10.00% 7
North of England -36 36 £650 +26.83%
South East -28 32 £550 +10.00% 5
London -50 23 £500 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire -34 20 £525 -8.70%
Work from Home -45 20 £550 +10.00% 1
North West -24 15 £650 +44.44%
Midlands - 14 £525 -
West Midlands - 10 £550 -
South West - 4 £606 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland -4 2 £550 +8.64%
Northern Ireland -1 1 £675 -
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 123 (100.00%) Oracle
2 105 (85.37%) Oracle Database
3 61 (49.59%) Security Cleared
4 46 (37.40%) Oracle RMAN
5 44 (35.77%) SQL
6 40 (32.52%) High Availability
6 40 (32.52%) SC Cleared
7 30 (24.39%) Oracle RAC
8 29 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (22.76%) Linux
10 27 (21.95%) Data Guard
11 25 (20.33%) PL/SQL
12 24 (19.51%) SQL Server
12 24 (19.51%) Unix
13 22 (17.89%) DV Cleared
13 22 (17.89%) Migration
14 21 (17.07%) AWS
15 17 (13.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 16 (13.01%) ITIL
16 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (12.20%) Oracle Database 12c
17 15 (12.20%) Shell Script
18 14 (11.38%) Oracle Database 11g
18 14 (11.38%) Oracle EBS
18 14 (11.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
18 14 (11.38%) Oracle Reports
18 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
20 11 (8.94%) 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 (6.50%) WebLogic
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.63%) Liferay
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 14 (11.38%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (8.94%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (6.50%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.44%) Teamcenter
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.07%) AWS
2 7 (5.69%) Azure
2 7 (5.69%) OCI
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (2.44%) Azure Storage
4 3 (2.44%) PaaS
5 2 (1.63%) IaaS
6 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (85.37%) Oracle Database
2 24 (19.51%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.20%) Oracle Database 12c
5 14 (11.38%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (11.38%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (6.50%) MySQL
8 6 (4.88%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.07%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.25%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.25%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 10g
11 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.81%) DB2
12 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.25%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (8.94%) Public Sector
2 8 (6.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.63%) Legal
4 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.81%) Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Billing
5 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.81%) Military
5 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.44%) Middleware
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.63%) REST
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.81%) Life Science
3 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.81%) Replication
3 1 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Linux
2 24 (19.51%) Unix
3 7 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.25%) Windows
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.81%) AIX
6 1 (0.81%) HPUX
6 1 (0.81%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.52%) High Availability
2 29 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (17.89%) Migration
4 16 (13.01%) ITIL
5 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (8.13%) Database Tuning
7 10 (8.13%) Release Management
8 9 (7.32%) Data Migration
8 9 (7.32%) DevOps
9 8 (6.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (6.50%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (6.50%) Runbook
10 7 (5.69%) Database Security
10 7 (5.69%) SQL Optimisation
10 7 (5.69%) Task Automation
11 6 (4.88%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (4.88%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (4.88%) Statistics
12 5 (4.07%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 44 (35.77%) SQL
2 25 (20.33%) PL/SQL
3 15 (12.20%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.13%) Korn
5 8 (6.50%) Python
6 2 (1.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.81%) Bash
7 1 (0.81%) JCL
7 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.81%) RPG
7 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 40 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.89%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.07%) OCP
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Degree
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) SLA
3 3 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (24.39%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 46 (37.40%) Oracle RMAN
2 27 (21.95%) Data Guard
3 17 (13.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.63%) Foglight
5 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.63%) systemd
5 2 (1.63%) Terraform
6 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 123 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.81%) Commvault
4 1 (0.81%) EMC
4 1 (0.81%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.81%) Wonderware