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 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 513 540
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +79
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 56 40 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 15 54
10th Percentile £316 £428 £380
25th Percentile £365 £456 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £418
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +22.75% -20.48%
75th Percentile £569 £686 £538
90th Percentile £614 £700 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £469 £475
% change year-on-year -8.27% -1.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £31.00 - £64.40
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 33,152 31,803 41,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,996 19,553 27,898
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £724 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 1,029 1,466
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

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 15 December 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
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 15 December 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 -19 47 £456 -18.89% 14
UK excluding London -12 37 £430 -8.27% 14
Work from Home 0 18 £450 -28.00% 1
South East +7 13 £550 - 4
North of England -33 10 £358 - 2
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
Midlands -32 8 £365 -14.12% 5
London -42 8 £569 -9.00% 1
West Midlands - 8 £365 - 5
South West - 4 £463 - 2
Scotland 0 1 - - 1
North West -23 1 £375 - 2
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 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 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 51 (91.07%) Oracle Database
3 28 (50.00%) SQL
4 24 (42.86%) Data Guard
4 24 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (39.29%) Oracle RAC
5 22 (39.29%) Oracle RMAN
6 21 (37.50%) Linux
7 18 (32.14%) PL/SQL
8 14 (25.00%) Azure
8 14 (25.00%) Migration
8 14 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (23.21%) Python
9 13 (23.21%) Shell Script
10 12 (21.43%) DevOps
10 12 (21.43%) Unix
11 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (19.64%) MySQL
11 11 (19.64%) Oracle Exadata
11 11 (19.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 9 (16.07%) AWS
12 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
14 7 (12.50%) Agile
14 7 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
14 7 (12.50%) Change Management
14 7 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
14 7 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
14 7 (12.50%) Red Hat

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 3 (5.36%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.79%) Liferay
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.79%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) OCI
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Storage
5 3 (5.36%) SaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (91.07%) Oracle Database
2 11 (19.64%) MySQL
2 11 (19.64%) Oracle Exadata
3 7 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.57%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Toad
General
1 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Local Government
4 3 (5.36%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Back Office
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.57%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (12.50%) Replication
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Clustering
6 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Linux
2 12 (21.43%) Unix
3 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.36%) Solaris
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.57%) Windows
6 1 (1.79%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (25.00%) Migration
3 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.43%) DevOps
5 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (12.50%) Agile
8 7 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (12.50%) Change Management
8 7 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (10.71%) High Availability
9 6 (10.71%) Line Management
9 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.93%) Statistics
11 4 (7.14%) Data Migration
11 4 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (32.14%) PL/SQL
3 13 (23.21%) Python
3 13 (23.21%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.36%) Bash
4 3 (5.36%) Perl
4 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) OCP
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) OCA
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.36%) NFS
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Data Guard
2 22 (39.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (5.36%) Ansible
5 2 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) systemd
5 2 (3.57%) yum
6 1 (1.79%) Foglight
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Delphix
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Sybase
5 1 (1.79%) EMC
5 1 (1.79%) NEC