Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 515 555
Rank change year-on-year -18 +40 +82
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 53 49 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 57
10th Percentile £316 £313 £380
25th Percentile £365 £414 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £538
90th Percentile £707 £700 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £42.63 - £64.40
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 32,121 33,965 44,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.87% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,371 20,492 29,993
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 1,270 1,571
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.10 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%

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 16 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 13 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 16 November 2025. 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 -15 44 £463 -5.13% 2
UK excluding London +3 36 £450 -7.69% 2
Work from Home +2 14 £450 -28.00%
North of England -26 10 £358 - 2
Midlands -25 9 £365 -14.12%
South West - 9 £693 -
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
West Midlands - 9 £365 -
London -37 6 £563 +14.80%
South East - 6 £500 -
Wales +4 1 - -
North West -22 1 £450 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 53 (100.00%) Oracle
2 49 (92.45%) Oracle Database
3 27 (50.94%) Data Guard
4 23 (43.40%) Oracle RMAN
5 20 (37.74%) Oracle RAC
5 20 (37.74%) SQL
6 19 (35.85%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (32.08%) Linux
8 14 (26.42%) PL/SQL
8 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (24.53%) Python
10 12 (22.64%) Azure
10 12 (22.64%) Migration
10 12 (22.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (20.75%) MySQL
12 10 (18.87%) Line Management
12 10 (18.87%) Oracle Exadata
12 10 (18.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 10 (18.87%) Shell Script
12 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (18.87%) Unix
13 9 (16.98%) DevOps
13 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
14 8 (15.09%) Agile
14 8 (15.09%) AWS
14 8 (15.09%) Oracle Database 12c
14 8 (15.09%) Windows
15 7 (13.21%) Change Management
15 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) AWS
3 3 (5.66%) OCI
3 3 (5.66%) SaaS
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (92.45%) Oracle Database
2 11 (20.75%) MySQL
3 10 (18.87%) Oracle Exadata
4 8 (15.09%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
6 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.55%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Electronics
4 3 (5.66%) Local Government
4 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.66%) Marketing
5 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.77%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) Kafka
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Replication
3 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Clustering
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Unix
3 8 (15.09%) Windows
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Solaris
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.89%) AIX
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.64%) Migration
4 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (18.87%) Line Management
5 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.98%) DevOps
7 8 (15.09%) Agile
8 7 (13.21%) Change Management
9 6 (11.32%) High Availability
10 5 (9.43%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
10 5 (9.43%) Database Migration
10 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (7.55%) Database Security
11 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.55%) Performance Monitoring
11 4 (7.55%) Systems Engineering
12 3 (5.66%) Data Migration
12 3 (5.66%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) SQL
2 14 (26.42%) PL/SQL
3 13 (24.53%) Python
4 10 (18.87%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) OCP
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.66%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (50.94%) Data Guard
2 23 (43.40%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (22.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Ansible
5 2 (3.77%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.77%) yum
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.66%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) Delphix
4 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) Sybase
5 1 (1.89%) EMC