Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 499 514
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +106
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 115 28 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.095% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 15 43
10th Percentile £351 £374 £363
25th Percentile £398 £431 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £553 £644
90th Percentile £675 £575 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £506 £425
% change year-on-year +6.17% +19.12% -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 43,041 27,334 40,483
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.61% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,619 17,888 26,425
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,759 1,027 2,641
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -12 103 £500 -4.76% 7
UK excluding London -15 82 £538 +6.17% 7
North of England -34 36 £650 - 1
South East -42 24 £432 - 3
London -56 22 £500 +2.56% 1
Yorkshire -40 20 £366 -
Work from Home -14 17 £525 +5.00% 2
North West - 16 £650 - 1
Midlands - 14 £463 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £525 - 2
South West - 5 £606 - 1
Scotland +5 2 £550 +8.64%
East Midlands - 2 £463 -
Northern Ireland +3 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 98 (85.22%) Oracle Database
3 49 (42.61%) Security Cleared
4 45 (39.13%) SQL
5 42 (36.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (33.04%) SC Cleared
7 34 (29.57%) High Availability
8 30 (26.09%) Oracle RAC
9 28 (24.35%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (23.48%) Linux
11 25 (21.74%) Data Guard
11 25 (21.74%) Unix
12 24 (20.87%) Migration
12 24 (20.87%) PL/SQL
13 23 (20.00%) SQL Server
14 20 (17.39%) AWS
15 19 (16.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 17 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (13.91%) Shell Script
18 15 (13.04%) ITIL
19 14 (12.17%) Oracle Database 12c
19 14 (12.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
20 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
20 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared
20 12 (10.43%) Oracle Reports
21 11 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
21 11 (9.57%) MySQL
21 11 (9.57%) Oracle Database 11g
22 10 (8.70%) 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 6 (5.22%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.74%) Liferay
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.09%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (5.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.87%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.39%) AWS
2 8 (6.96%) Azure
3 7 (6.09%) OCI
4 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.61%) Azure Storage
5 3 (2.61%) PaaS
6 2 (1.74%) IaaS
7 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (85.22%) Oracle Database
2 23 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 17 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (12.17%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (10.43%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (9.57%) MySQL
6 11 (9.57%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.48%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (3.48%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.48%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) Toad
General
1 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
1 9 (7.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.09%) Finance
3 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.74%) Legal
4 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.87%) Back Office
5 1 (0.87%) Banking
5 1 (0.87%) Billing
5 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.87%) Local Government
5 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.87%) Military
5 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.87%) JSON
3 1 (0.87%) Middleware
3 1 (0.87%) REST
3 1 (0.87%) XML
3 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Cloud
2 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.87%) Life Science
4 1 (0.87%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.87%) Replication
4 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.48%) Linux
2 25 (21.74%) Unix
3 9 (7.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (2.61%) Windows
6 1 (0.87%) AIX
6 1 (0.87%) HPUX
6 1 (0.87%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.87%) Solaris
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.57%) High Availability
2 28 (24.35%) Performance Tuning
3 24 (20.87%) Migration
4 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (13.04%) ITIL
6 11 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (8.70%) Data Migration
7 10 (8.70%) Database Tuning
7 10 (8.70%) DevOps
8 9 (7.83%) Release Management
9 8 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.96%) Database Security
9 8 (6.96%) Runbook
10 7 (6.09%) Change Management
10 7 (6.09%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (6.09%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.22%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (5.22%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (5.22%) Statistics
11 6 (5.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.13%) SQL
2 24 (20.87%) PL/SQL
3 16 (13.91%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.70%) Korn
5 9 (7.83%) Python
6 3 (2.61%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) JCL
7 1 (0.87%) PHP
7 1 (0.87%) RPG
7 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.87%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.04%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.09%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.35%) OCP
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) Degree
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) QA
1 7 (6.09%) SLA
2 3 (2.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.87%) NIST
3 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (26.09%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 42 (36.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 25 (21.74%) Data Guard
3 19 (16.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.61%) Ansible
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.74%) Foglight
5 2 (1.74%) systemd
5 2 (1.74%) Terraform
6 1 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.87%) Commvault
5 1 (0.87%) EMC
5 1 (0.87%) NEC
5 1 (0.87%) NetCracker
5 1 (0.87%) Wonderware