Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 496 531
Rank change year-on-year -18 +35 +85
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 70 31 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 10 46
10th Percentile £316 £450 £381
25th Percentile £365 £467 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £506 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £575
90th Percentile £606 £700 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -5.26%
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 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 33,773 29,297 39,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.69% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,365 17,961 26,425
10th Percentile £300 £288 £280
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 883 1,665
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -30.93% +55.17%

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 14 January 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 14 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 14 January 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 -26 58 £463 -17.78% 7
UK excluding London -15 43 £450 -12.20% 5
Work from Home -1 18 £456 -27.00%
London -35 15 £500 -11.11% 2
South East -9 12 £510 -
Midlands - 11 £365 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £365 - 2
North of England -45 10 £358 - 2
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
South West - 6 £534 - 1
Scotland 0 2 £550 +7.32%
North West -26 1 £375 - 2
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 70 (100.00%) Oracle
2 62 (88.57%) Oracle Database
3 38 (54.29%) SQL
4 27 (38.57%) PL/SQL
5 26 (37.14%) Data Guard
5 26 (37.14%) Oracle RAC
5 26 (37.14%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (31.43%) Oracle RMAN
7 21 (30.00%) Migration
8 19 (27.14%) Linux
9 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (21.43%) AWS
10 15 (21.43%) Azure
10 15 (21.43%) DevOps
11 14 (20.00%) MySQL
11 14 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 14 (20.00%) Python
12 13 (18.57%) High Availability
12 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
12 13 (18.57%) Shell Script
13 12 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (17.14%) Unix
14 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (14.29%) Data Migration
15 10 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
15 10 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
16 9 (12.86%) Oracle APEX
16 9 (12.86%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 8 (11.43%) CI/CD

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 (5.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.86%) Liferay
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.43%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) AWS
1 15 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
2 6 (8.57%) OCI
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Storage
4 3 (4.29%) SaaS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.86%) IaaS
5 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (88.57%) Oracle Database
2 14 (20.00%) MySQL
3 12 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
5 9 (12.86%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
8 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
9 4 (5.71%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (5.71%) SQLPlus
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Toad
General
1 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.71%) Local Government
3 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Back Office
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (1.43%) JSON
3 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (10.00%) Replication
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Clustering
5 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.14%) Linux
2 12 (17.14%) Unix
3 5 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.29%) Solaris
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (30.00%) Migration
3 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (21.43%) DevOps
5 13 (18.57%) High Availability
6 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.00%) Agile
10 7 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (10.00%) Change Management
10 7 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (10.00%) Task Automation
11 5 (7.14%) Database Tuning
11 5 (7.14%) Line Management
11 5 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 5 (7.14%) Statistics
12 4 (5.71%) Database Security
12 4 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (54.29%) SQL
2 27 (38.57%) PL/SQL
3 14 (20.00%) Python
4 13 (18.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.29%) Bash
5 3 (4.29%) Perl
5 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.43%) PHP
6 1 (1.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) DV Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) OCP
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) SLA
2 4 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (37.14%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.29%) NFS
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 26 (37.14%) Data Guard
2 22 (31.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (4.29%) Ansible
5 2 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.86%) Foglight
5 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.86%) systemd
5 2 (2.86%) yum
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.43%) Delphix
4 1 (1.43%) EMC
4 1 (1.43%) NEC
4 1 (1.43%) Sybase