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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 494 523
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 +79
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 119 35 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 21 37
10th Percentile £365 £373 £358
25th Percentile £431 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £568 £650
90th Percentile £675 £575 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £506 £425
% change year-on-year +8.64% +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 44,449 26,943 39,487
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.37% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,215 17,536 25,722
10th Percentile £325 £293 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,895 1,057 2,674
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.13 £61.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £77.80 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.96% -32.50% -5.88%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -29 108 £550 +2.33% 12
UK excluding London -12 88 £550 +8.64% 7
North of England -31 35 £650 +13.04%
South East -39 30 £550 +10.00% 4
London -52 21 £500 -4.76% 6
Work from Home -36 20 £538 +7.50% 2
Yorkshire -40 19 £445 -22.57%
North West - 15 £650 -
Midlands - 14 £525 -
West Midlands - 10 £550 -
South West - 5 £606 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland -11 2 £550 +8.64%
Northern Ireland -2 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 20 May 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.

1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 103 (86.55%) Oracle Database
3 59 (49.58%) Security Cleared
4 45 (37.82%) Oracle RMAN
4 45 (37.82%) SQL
5 40 (33.61%) SC Cleared
6 38 (31.93%) High Availability
7 30 (25.21%) Oracle RAC
8 28 (23.53%) Linux
8 28 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
9 26 (21.85%) Data Guard
9 26 (21.85%) PL/SQL
10 24 (20.17%) SQL Server
10 24 (20.17%) Unix
11 22 (18.49%) Migration
12 21 (17.65%) AWS
13 20 (16.81%) DV Cleared
14 17 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 16 (13.45%) ITIL
15 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (12.61%) Oracle Database 12c
16 15 (12.61%) Shell Script
17 14 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
17 14 (11.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 14 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (10.08%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (9.24%) Disaster Recovery
19 11 (9.24%) Oracle EBS
20 10 (8.40%) Database Tuning

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 8 (6.72%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.68%) Liferay
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (7.56%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.68%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.84%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.65%) AWS
2 8 (6.72%) Azure
3 7 (5.88%) OCI
4 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Storage
5 3 (2.52%) PaaS
6 2 (1.68%) IaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (86.55%) Oracle Database
2 24 (20.17%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.61%) Oracle Database 12c
5 14 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (10.08%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (6.72%) MySQL
8 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.20%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.36%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.36%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database 10g
11 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.84%) DB2
12 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
2 8 (6.72%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.68%) Legal
4 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.84%) Back Office
5 1 (0.84%) Banking
5 1 (0.84%) Billing
5 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.84%) Local Government
5 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.84%) Military
5 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.52%) Middleware
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.68%) REST
4 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
1 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.84%) Life Science
3 1 (0.84%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.84%) Replication
3 1 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.53%) Linux
2 24 (20.17%) Unix
3 7 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.36%) Windows
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.84%) AIX
6 1 (0.84%) HPUX
6 1 (0.84%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.84%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.93%) High Availability
2 28 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (18.49%) Migration
4 16 (13.45%) ITIL
5 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (8.40%) Database Tuning
7 10 (8.40%) DevOps
7 10 (8.40%) Release Management
8 9 (7.56%) Data Migration
9 8 (6.72%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (6.72%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (6.72%) Runbook
10 7 (5.88%) Database Security
10 7 (5.88%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (5.04%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (5.04%) Statistics
11 6 (5.04%) Task Automation
12 5 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (4.20%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.82%) SQL
2 26 (21.85%) PL/SQL
3 15 (12.61%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.40%) Korn
5 8 (6.72%) Python
6 2 (1.68%) Perl
7 1 (0.84%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) JCL
7 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.84%) RPG
7 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (49.58%) Security Cleared
2 40 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.81%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.20%) OCP
6 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.84%) Degree
8 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) SLA
3 3 (2.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (25.21%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 45 (37.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 26 (21.85%) Data Guard
3 17 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.52%) Ansible
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.68%) Foglight
5 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.68%) systemd
5 2 (1.68%) Terraform
6 1 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 119 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.84%) Commvault
4 1 (0.84%) EMC
4 1 (0.84%) NEC
4 1 (0.84%) NetCracker
4 1 (0.84%) Wonderware