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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 498 514
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +116
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 101 25 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.085% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.092% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 12 45
10th Percentile £350 £419 £355
25th Percentile £392 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £523 £631
90th Percentile £675 £571 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £506 £425
% change year-on-year +1.23% +19.12% -15.00%
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 42,387 27,118 40,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.63% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,322 17,814 26,600
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -0.98% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,671 978 2,586
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.26 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% -10.00% -21.40%
75th Percentile £65.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.73 £72.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.38 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.25% -14.29% -16.97%

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 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 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 13 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 -29 90 £500 - 6
UK excluding London -34 73 £513 +1.23% 6
North of England -36 34 £630 - 5
South East -30 22 £430 -
Yorkshire -40 20 £366 - 1
London -48 18 £500 -
Work from Home -26 14 £500 +2.56% 1
North West - 14 £650 - 4
Midlands - 9 £437 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £437 -
South West - 5 £606 -
Scotland +2 2 £550 +8.64%
Northern Ireland -2 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 101 (100.00%) Oracle
2 84 (83.17%) Oracle Database
3 41 (40.59%) Security Cleared
4 40 (39.60%) SQL
5 38 (37.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 32 (31.68%) SC Cleared
7 31 (30.69%) High Availability
8 27 (26.73%) Oracle RAC
9 24 (23.76%) Linux
10 23 (22.77%) Performance Tuning
10 23 (22.77%) SQL Server
11 21 (20.79%) Data Guard
11 21 (20.79%) Unix
12 20 (19.80%) Migration
12 20 (19.80%) PL/SQL
13 19 (18.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 17 (16.83%) AWS
15 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
17 14 (13.86%) Oracle Database 12c
17 14 (13.86%) Shell Script
18 13 (12.87%) ITIL
18 13 (12.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
19 12 (11.88%) MySQL
20 11 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
21 10 (9.90%) Data Migration
21 10 (9.90%) Korn
22 9 (8.91%) Database Tuning
22 9 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
22 9 (8.91%) DV 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.96%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.98%) Liferay
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (5.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (4.95%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.99%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.83%) AWS
2 7 (6.93%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.95%) OCI
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.97%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.98%) IaaS
6 2 (1.98%) PaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (83.17%) Oracle Database
2 23 (22.77%) SQL Server
3 15 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (13.86%) Oracle Database 12c
5 12 (11.88%) MySQL
6 11 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (8.91%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (7.92%) Oracle Database 11g
9 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.96%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.96%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.96%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.97%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.99%) GitLab
3 1 (0.99%) Toad
General
1 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
1 8 (7.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.95%) Finance
3 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.98%) Legal
5 1 (0.99%) Back Office
5 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.99%) Local Government
5 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.99%) Military
5 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (0.99%) JSON
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.99%) Life Science
4 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Replication
4 1 (0.99%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.76%) Linux
2 21 (20.79%) Unix
3 9 (8.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (2.97%) Windows
6 1 (0.99%) AIX
6 1 (0.99%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.99%) Solaris
6 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.69%) High Availability
2 23 (22.77%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (19.80%) Migration
4 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (12.87%) ITIL
6 10 (9.90%) Data Migration
7 9 (8.91%) Database Tuning
7 9 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.91%) Release Management
8 8 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.92%) DevOps
9 7 (6.93%) Database Security
9 7 (6.93%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (6.93%) Runbook
9 7 (6.93%) SQL Optimisation
10 6 (5.94%) Change Management
10 6 (5.94%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (5.94%) Statistics
10 6 (5.94%) Task Automation
11 5 (4.95%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.60%) SQL
2 20 (19.80%) PL/SQL
3 14 (13.86%) Shell Script
4 10 (9.90%) Korn
5 5 (4.95%) Python
6 3 (2.97%) Perl
7 1 (0.99%) JCL
7 1 (0.99%) PHP
7 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.94%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (4.95%) OCP
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.99%) Degree
8 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) SLA
2 7 (6.93%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (26.73%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.97%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 38 (37.62%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (20.79%) Data Guard
3 19 (18.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.98%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.98%) Foglight
5 2 (1.98%) systemd
6 1 (0.99%) Ansible
6 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 101 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.99%) Commvault
5 1 (0.99%) EMC
5 1 (0.99%) NEC
5 1 (0.99%) Wonderware