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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 504 471
Rank change year-on-year -35 -33 +99
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 135 41 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 27 46
10th Percentile £392 £400 £324
25th Percentile £430 £439 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £667
90th Percentile £688 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -54.88%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year - +167.86% -54.88%

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 49,538 30,006 36,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.28% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,704 18,935 23,189
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,506 1,542 1,988
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.02
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.87% +22.28%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -46 121 £550 - 3
UK excluding London -20 105 £550 - 1
North of England -34 49 £500 +11.11% 1
South East -50 31 £550 +10.00%
North West -18 30 £480 +6.67%
Work from Home -47 20 £525 +13.57% 1
Yorkshire -29 18 £600 +17.07% 1
London -69 15 £525 +9.43% 2
Midlands -43 11 £463 -
South West -41 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -41 7 £550 -
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
North East - 1 £501 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 135 (100.00%) Oracle
2 102 (75.56%) Oracle Database
3 82 (60.74%) Security Cleared
4 64 (47.41%) SQL
5 57 (42.22%) SC Cleared
6 51 (37.78%) Oracle RMAN
7 43 (31.85%) Data Guard
7 43 (31.85%) Performance Tuning
8 42 (31.11%) Oracle RAC
9 39 (28.89%) SQL Server
10 38 (28.15%) High Availability
11 31 (22.96%) DV Cleared
12 30 (22.22%) ITIL
13 29 (21.48%) Linux
14 26 (19.26%) Unix
15 24 (17.78%) PL/SQL
16 22 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (14.81%) AWS
17 20 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
17 20 (14.81%) Oracle Database 11g
18 19 (14.07%) Oracle Database 12c
19 18 (13.33%) Migration
20 17 (12.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
20 17 (12.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
20 17 (12.59%) Root Cause Analysis
21 14 (10.37%) Database Security
21 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
22 12 (8.89%) Shell Script
23 11 (8.15%) Azure
23 11 (8.15%) 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 6 (4.44%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Oracle Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (4.44%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.81%) AWS
2 11 (8.15%) Azure
3 7 (5.19%) OCI
4 1 (0.74%) GCP
4 1 (0.74%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (75.56%) Oracle Database
2 39 (28.89%) SQL Server
3 22 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (14.81%) Oracle Database 11g
5 19 (14.07%) Oracle Database 12c
6 8 (5.93%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (5.19%) Oracle Database 10g
7 7 (5.19%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (3.70%) MySQL
9 4 (2.96%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.48%) Db2
10 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.48%) SQLite
11 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.74%) OLTP
11 1 (0.74%) Oracle8/8i Database
11 1 (0.74%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.48%) GitLab
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.74%) Toad
General
1 15 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.93%) Finance
5 2 (1.48%) Banking
5 2 (1.48%) Military
6 1 (0.74%) Billing
6 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.74%) International Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.22%) Middleware
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.48%) REST
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.19%) Replication
2 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.48%) Linux
2 26 (19.26%) Unix
3 6 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.70%) Windows
5 4 (2.96%) AIX
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (2.96%) Solaris
6 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.74%) HPUX
7 1 (0.74%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.85%) Performance Tuning
2 38 (28.15%) High Availability
3 30 (22.22%) ITIL
4 20 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (13.33%) Migration
6 17 (12.59%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (10.37%) Database Security
8 11 (8.15%) Database Tuning
8 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (6.67%) Change Management
9 9 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (5.93%) Release Management
10 8 (5.93%) SQL Optimisation
11 7 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (4.44%) Capacity Planning
12 6 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (4.44%) Runbook
12 6 (4.44%) Security Hardening
12 6 (4.44%) Security Patching
13 5 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.41%) SQL
2 24 (17.78%) PL/SQL
3 12 (8.89%) Shell Script
4 9 (6.67%) Python
5 8 (5.93%) Korn
6 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) Perl
8 1 (0.74%) RPG
8 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (60.74%) Security Cleared
2 57 (42.22%) SC Cleared
3 31 (22.96%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (4.44%) Degree
6 5 (3.70%) OCP
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) ISO 9000
2 4 (2.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (31.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (37.78%) Oracle RMAN
2 43 (31.85%) Data Guard
3 17 (12.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
5 3 (2.22%) Terraform
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.74%) Nagios
Vendors
1 135 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (10.37%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.48%) Remedy
4 1 (0.74%) EMC
4 1 (0.74%) IBM
4 1 (0.74%) NetCracker