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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 514 482
Rank change year-on-year -42 -32 +61
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 129 46 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 28 39
10th Percentile £392 £405 £322
25th Percentile £436 £439 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +33.33%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £680
90th Percentile £688 £712 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £488
% change year-on-year - +12.82% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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 49,838 30,062 35,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.24% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,768 18,992 22,689
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
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 3,565 1,567 1,847
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.04 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +10.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -37 115 £550 - 10
UK excluding London -20 98 £550 - 7
North of England -25 47 £500 +11.11% 4
North West -30 29 £480 +6.67% 4
South East -46 27 £550 +10.00% 1
Work from Home -58 18 £550 +18.92% 3
Yorkshire -29 17 £600 +17.07%
London -76 15 £525 +2.99% 4
Midlands -39 10 £506 -
South West -39 9 £760 +9.75%
West Midlands -34 6 £550 -
Wales - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 3 £463 -
Scotland -21 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 - 2
North East - 1 £501 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 129 (100.00%) Oracle
2 100 (77.52%) Oracle Database
3 80 (62.02%) Security Cleared
4 64 (49.61%) SQL
5 55 (42.64%) SC Cleared
6 48 (37.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 43 (33.33%) Data Guard
7 43 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 40 (31.01%) Oracle RAC
9 39 (30.23%) High Availability
10 34 (26.36%) SQL Server
11 32 (24.81%) DV Cleared
12 29 (22.48%) Linux
13 28 (21.71%) ITIL
14 25 (19.38%) PL/SQL
15 23 (17.83%) Unix
16 20 (15.50%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (15.50%) Oracle Database 11g
16 20 (15.50%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (14.73%) AWS
18 18 (13.95%) Oracle Database 12c
19 17 (13.18%) Migration
20 16 (12.40%) Root Cause Analysis
21 14 (10.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
21 14 (10.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
22 13 (10.08%) Database Security
22 13 (10.08%) Microsoft
23 12 (9.30%) Database Tuning
24 10 (7.75%) Azure
24 10 (7.75%) Change Management

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 (4.65%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Oracle Applications
2 9 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (4.65%) Teamcenter
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.73%) AWS
2 10 (7.75%) Azure
3 6 (4.65%) OCI
4 1 (0.78%) GCP
4 1 (0.78%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (77.52%) Oracle Database
2 34 (26.36%) SQL Server
3 20 (15.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 20 (15.50%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (13.95%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (5.43%) Oracle Database 10g
5 7 (5.43%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.10%) MySQL
7 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.55%) Db2
8 2 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.55%) SQLite
9 1 (0.78%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.78%) OLTP
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.55%) GitLab
2 2 (1.55%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (0.78%) Toad
General
1 14 (10.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Finance
5 2 (1.55%) Banking
5 2 (1.55%) Military
6 1 (0.78%) Billing
6 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) International Banking
6 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.33%) Middleware
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
3 2 (1.55%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Replication
2 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 23 (17.83%) Unix
3 6 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.10%) AIX
4 4 (3.10%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (3.10%) Solaris
4 4 (3.10%) Windows
5 1 (0.78%) HPUX
5 1 (0.78%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 39 (30.23%) High Availability
3 28 (21.71%) ITIL
4 20 (15.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (13.18%) Migration
6 16 (12.40%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (10.08%) Database Security
8 12 (9.30%) Database Tuning
9 10 (7.75%) Change Management
9 10 (7.75%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (6.20%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.20%) SQL Optimisation
11 7 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (5.43%) Runbook
11 7 (5.43%) Security Patching
11 7 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (4.65%) Service Management
13 5 (3.88%) Capacity Planning
13 5 (3.88%) Incident Management
13 5 (3.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (49.61%) SQL
2 25 (19.38%) PL/SQL
3 10 (7.75%) Python
4 9 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.88%) Korn
6 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) Perl
8 1 (0.78%) RPG
8 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (62.02%) Security Cleared
2 55 (42.64%) SC Cleared
3 32 (24.81%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.98%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (4.65%) Degree
6 4 (3.10%) OCP
7 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) ISO 9000
2 4 (3.10%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (31.01%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (37.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 43 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 14 (10.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (3.10%) Ansible
5 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 129 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.55%) Remedy
4 1 (0.78%) EMC
4 1 (0.78%) IBM
4 1 (0.78%) NetCracker