Oracle DBA Contracts

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 519 602
Rank change year-on-year +11 +83 +51
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 43 76 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 43
10th Percentile £405 £324 £385
25th Percentile £447 £371 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -2.50% -3.29%
75th Percentile £581 £661 £538
90th Percentile £712 £760 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +35.29% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.86% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +167.86% - -

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 29,079 40,388 53,054
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,553 25,970 36,860
10th Percentile £288 £286 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,311 2,837 1,549
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.01% +94.88%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA.

Daily rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 13 Contract 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 4 July 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 +44 35 £550 +27.91% 133
UK excluding London +34 21 £575 +35.29% 123
London +10 17 £518 -17.20% 18
Work from Home +8 16 £500 -9.09% 66
South West +43 7 £713 +14.00% 18
South East +42 5 £525 +23.53% 17
North of England +6 3 £513 +20.59% 30
Scotland -1 3 £500 +48.15%
Midlands +9 2 - - 30
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 18
West Midlands - 2 - - 17
North West +1 1 £450 +5.88% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Oracle DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Oracle
2 40 (93.02%) Oracle Database
3 25 (58.14%) SQL
3 25 (58.14%) Oracle RMAN
4 23 (53.49%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (46.51%) Data Guard
6 19 (44.19%) Oracle RAC
7 18 (41.86%) PL/SQL
8 15 (34.88%) High Availability
9 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
9 14 (32.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 13 (30.23%) Linux
11 11 (25.58%) Migration
11 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
12 10 (23.26%) AWS
13 9 (20.93%) Database Security
13 9 (20.93%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (20.93%) Database Migration
14 8 (18.60%) Task Automation
14 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
15 7 (16.28%) OCI
15 7 (16.28%) Unix
15 7 (16.28%) Windows
15 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database 12c
16 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (13.95%) Azure
16 6 (13.95%) Oracle Database 11g
16 6 (13.95%) Finance
17 5 (11.63%) Social Skills

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (6.98%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) OCI
3 6 (13.95%) Azure
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) Miro
6 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (93.02%) Oracle Database
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database 12c
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.95%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
4 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
5 4 (9.30%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.33%) MySQL
8 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) DBeaver
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Electronics
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Marketing
4 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) French Language
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (6.98%) Replication
3 1 (2.33%) Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Unix
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (34.88%) High Availability
3 11 (25.58%) Migration
4 9 (20.93%) Database Migration
4 9 (20.93%) Database Security
4 9 (20.93%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.60%) Task Automation
6 5 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) Line Management
7 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (9.30%) Database Optimisation
7 4 (9.30%) Database Tuning
7 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (6.98%) ERP
8 3 (6.98%) Programme Management
8 3 (6.98%) SOA
8 3 (6.98%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) SQL
2 18 (41.86%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.98%) Perl
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) VB
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) OCP
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) Degree
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (44.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (46.51%) Data Guard
3 14 (32.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (6.98%) Ansible
6 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) Delphix
3 2 (4.65%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) Sybase
4 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.33%) VMware