Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 506 569
Rank change year-on-year -38 +63 +73
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 69 26 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.084% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.090% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 9 31
10th Percentile £316 £445 £363
25th Percentile £365 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £570 £519 £631
90th Percentile £606 £555 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -15.06% +6.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 36,628 28,781 41,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.94% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,025 17,777 27,347
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 824 2,299
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.94 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.86 £21.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%
75th Percentile £61.94 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -9.26% -

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 13 February 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 14 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 13 February 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 -33 60 £500 - 14
UK excluding London -30 43 £430 -15.06% 13
London -17 18 £500 - 2
Work from Home -6 12 £452 -7.33% 1
South East -28 12 £469 - 3
Midlands - 12 £365 -
West Midlands - 12 £365 -
North of England -50 9 £358 - 8
Yorkshire -55 8 £350 - 8
South West - 5 £606 - 1
Scotland +8 3 £550 +8.64%
North West -33 1 £375 -
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 69 (100.00%) Oracle
2 62 (89.86%) Oracle Database
3 35 (50.72%) SQL
4 24 (34.78%) PL/SQL
5 22 (31.88%) Oracle RAC
5 22 (31.88%) Oracle RMAN
6 21 (30.43%) Data Guard
6 21 (30.43%) Migration
6 21 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
7 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
8 17 (24.64%) High Availability
9 15 (21.74%) Linux
9 15 (21.74%) MySQL
9 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (20.29%) AWS
10 14 (20.29%) Azure
10 14 (20.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 14 (20.29%) Unix
11 13 (18.84%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (18.84%) Shell Script
12 12 (17.39%) Data Migration
12 12 (17.39%) DevOps
12 12 (17.39%) Python
13 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
15 9 (13.04%) DV Cleared
15 9 (13.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
15 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
16 8 (11.59%) Oracle APEX

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 (5.80%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.90%) Liferay
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (7.25%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.45%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.29%) AWS
1 14 (20.29%) Azure
2 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (5.80%) OCI
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Storage
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.90%) IaaS
5 2 (2.90%) PaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (89.86%) Oracle Database
2 15 (21.74%) MySQL
3 13 (18.84%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (11.59%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (10.14%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.80%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (5.80%) SQLPlus
8 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) Toad
General
1 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
1 5 (7.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.90%) Local Government
4 1 (1.45%) Back Office
4 1 (1.45%) Finance
4 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.80%) Replication
3 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Clustering
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 14 (20.29%) Unix
3 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.80%) Solaris
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Migration
1 21 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (24.64%) High Availability
3 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.39%) Data Migration
4 12 (17.39%) DevOps
5 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (11.59%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (10.14%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (10.14%) Statistics
9 6 (8.70%) Change Management
9 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.70%) Line Management
9 6 (8.70%) Task Automation
10 5 (7.25%) Agile
10 5 (7.25%) Database Security
10 5 (7.25%) Database Tuning
10 5 (7.25%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.72%) SQL
2 24 (34.78%) PL/SQL
3 13 (18.84%) Shell Script
4 12 (17.39%) Python
5 3 (4.35%) Bash
5 3 (4.35%) Perl
5 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) Korn
7 1 (1.45%) JCL
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (5.80%) OCP
6 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) SLA
2 4 (5.80%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.35%) NFS
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 22 (31.88%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (30.43%) Data Guard
3 14 (20.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.90%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.90%) Foglight
5 2 (2.90%) systemd
6 1 (1.45%) Ansible
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Commvault
5 1 (1.45%) Delphix
5 1 (1.45%) EMC
5 1 (1.45%) NEC