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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 490 519
Rank change year-on-year -32 +29 +98
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 131 41 69
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 27 42
10th Percentile £381 £400 £324
25th Percentile £500 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.09% -3.75%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £650
90th Percentile £688 £712 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.86% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -

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 47,008 27,876 40,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.16% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,552 17,889 25,942
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,155 1,223 2,887
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.08 £17.31 £16.58
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -39 119 £550 - 4
UK excluding London -40 94 £550 -12.00% 5
North of England -31 38 £650 +26.83% 2
South East -33 29 £550 +10.00% 2
London -58 24 £500 -3.38%
Yorkshire -29 20 £525 -8.70%
North West -27 17 £650 +44.44% 2
Work from Home -53 16 £550 +10.00% 3
South West -28 12 £730 +2.46%
Midlands -54 11 £506 -
West Midlands -53 7 £550 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland -11 2 - -
Northern Ireland +3 1 £675 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
North East - 1 £501 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 131 (100.00%) Oracle
2 110 (83.97%) Oracle Database
3 75 (57.25%) Security Cleared
4 45 (34.35%) Oracle RMAN
4 45 (34.35%) SQL
5 44 (33.59%) SC Cleared
6 38 (29.01%) High Availability
7 34 (25.95%) DV Cleared
8 31 (23.66%) SQL Server
9 30 (22.90%) Oracle RAC
10 28 (21.37%) Data Guard
10 28 (21.37%) Linux
11 25 (19.08%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (18.32%) Unix
13 23 (17.56%) AWS
13 23 (17.56%) Migration
13 23 (17.56%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (15.27%) ITIL
14 20 (15.27%) PL/SQL
15 17 (12.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 16 (12.21%) Oracle Database 11g
16 16 (12.21%) Oracle Database 12c
16 16 (12.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 15 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
18 14 (10.69%) Shell Script
19 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
19 11 (8.40%) Oracle Applications
19 11 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
20 10 (7.63%) Azure
20 10 (7.63%) Data Migration

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 4 (3.05%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Oracle Applications
2 10 (7.63%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (4.58%) Teamcenter
4 3 (2.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.56%) AWS
2 10 (7.63%) Azure
3 7 (5.34%) OCI
4 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.76%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (83.97%) Oracle Database
2 31 (23.66%) SQL Server
3 23 (17.56%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (12.21%) Oracle Database 11g
4 16 (12.21%) Oracle Database 12c
5 10 (7.63%) MySQL
6 9 (6.87%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (6.11%) Oracle Exadata
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
9 4 (3.05%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (2.29%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.53%) Db2
11 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.76%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.53%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
2 9 (6.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.11%) Finance
4 4 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.53%) Banking
5 2 (1.53%) Legal
5 2 (1.53%) Military
5 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.76%) Billing
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) International Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.29%) Middleware
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.53%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Cloud
1 6 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.05%) Replication
3 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.76%) Life Science
4 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.37%) Linux
2 24 (18.32%) Unix
3 6 (4.58%) Windows
4 5 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.05%) AIX
5 4 (3.05%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (2.29%) Solaris
7 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.76%) HPUX
8 1 (0.76%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.01%) High Availability
2 25 (19.08%) Performance Tuning
3 23 (17.56%) Migration
4 20 (15.27%) ITIL
5 15 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (7.63%) Data Migration
7 10 (7.63%) Release Management
8 9 (6.87%) Database Security
8 9 (6.87%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (5.34%) Database Tuning
10 7 (5.34%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (5.34%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (4.58%) Change Management
11 6 (4.58%) Runbook
11 6 (4.58%) Security Hardening
11 6 (4.58%) Security Patching
12 5 (3.82%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (3.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.35%) SQL
2 20 (15.27%) PL/SQL
3 14 (10.69%) Shell Script
4 10 (7.63%) Korn
5 9 (6.87%) Python
6 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.76%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) JCL
7 1 (0.76%) RPG
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (57.25%) Security Cleared
2 44 (33.59%) SC Cleared
3 34 (25.95%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Degree
6 2 (1.53%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) SLA
3 3 (2.29%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (22.90%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (34.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 28 (21.37%) Data Guard
3 17 (12.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.05%) Ansible
5 3 (2.29%) Terraform
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.76%) Foglight
Vendors
1 131 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.76%) Commvault
3 1 (0.76%) EMC
3 1 (0.76%) IBM
3 1 (0.76%) NetCracker
3 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.76%) Wonderware