Oracle DBA Contracts

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 554 606
Rank change year-on-year +41 +52 +92
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 47 82 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 58 147
10th Percentile £313 £380 £396
25th Percentile £414 £382 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £411 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.54% -21.67% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £584
90th Percentile £700 £575 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +6.56% -8.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 33,981 44,561 77,991
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 93.85% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,480 30,403 54,679
10th Percentile £300 £300 £317
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,533 1,737
10th Percentile £15.07 £14.67 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.00 £16.47
Median hourly rate £39.75 £44.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +61.82% +37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.50 £23.21
% change year-on-year -10.11% +91.73% +31.88%

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 26 October 2024.

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 26 October 2024. 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 40 £488 +21.88% 4
London +57 38 £490 +28.27% 2
Work from Home +53 28 £625 +31.58% 5
UK excluding London +24 5 £488 +6.56% 4
Wales +6 3 £506 -3.57%
North of England +32 1 - - 1
North West +28 1 - -
East Midlands +6 1 £425 -
Midlands 0 1 £425 +1.80%

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, 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 47 (100.00%) Oracle
2 44 (93.62%) Oracle Database
3 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
4 20 (42.55%) SC Cleared
5 17 (36.17%) SQL
6 16 (34.04%) Database Tuning
7 14 (29.79%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (27.66%) AWS
8 13 (27.66%) Banking
9 11 (23.40%) Data Guard
10 10 (21.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 10 (21.28%) Oracle RAC
10 10 (21.28%) Java
11 9 (19.15%) Management Information System
11 9 (19.15%) Finance
11 9 (19.15%) Migration
11 9 (19.15%) Hibernate
11 9 (19.15%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (19.15%) JPA
11 9 (19.15%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (17.02%) Software Architecture
12 8 (17.02%) SDLC
12 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (17.02%) Information Security
12 8 (17.02%) Maven
12 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
12 8 (17.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (17.02%) Linux
13 7 (14.89%) Middleware
13 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL

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 3 (6.38%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) AWS
2 7 (14.89%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) GitHub
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (93.62%) Oracle Database
2 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (6.38%) PowerCenter
5 2 (4.26%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Maven
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.66%) Banking
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 9 (19.15%) Hibernate
2 9 (19.15%) JPA
3 7 (14.89%) Middleware
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (19.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.64%) Replication
3 1 (2.13%) Credit Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) AIX
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) Windows
4 1 (2.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Database Tuning
2 14 (29.79%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (19.15%) Migration
4 8 (17.02%) Information Security
4 8 (17.02%) SDLC
4 8 (17.02%) Software Architecture
4 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.89%) DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) High Availability
6 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.38%) Data Management
8 3 (6.38%) E-business
8 3 (6.38%) ITIL
8 3 (6.38%) ITSM
9 2 (4.26%) Data Cleansing
9 2 (4.26%) Data Mapping
9 2 (4.26%) Data Transformation
9 2 (4.26%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 10 (21.28%) Java
3 6 (12.77%) PL/SQL
4 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.38%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 20 (42.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) OCA
3 1 (2.13%) OCP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Data Guard
2 9 (19.15%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (17.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Oracle Flashback
5 4 (8.51%) Ansible
6 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Informatica
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Sun
3 1 (2.13%) VMware