Oracle DBA Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 492 546
Rank change year-on-year -37 +54 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 55 46 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 57
10th Percentile £316 £313 £380
25th Percentile £363 £411 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £496 £413
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +20.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £579 £646 £538
90th Percentile £700 £700 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -24.10% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £59.70
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £62.05
75th Percentile £42.63 - £64.40
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £62.05

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 32,516 34,282 43,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.79% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,580 20,693 29,476
10th Percentile £280 £300 £291
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,925 1,305 1,549
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.37 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.54 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.01% -25.05% +83.48%

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 23 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle DBA 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 23 November 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 -14 46 £463 -6.80% 2
UK excluding London 0 37 £370 -24.10% 2
Work from Home +4 15 £450 -28.00% 1
North of England -26 10 £358 - 2
South West - 10 £675 -
Midlands -22 9 £365 -14.12%
Yorkshire - 9 £350 -
West Midlands - 9 £365 -
London -15 7 £569 +13.75%
South East - 6 £500 -
Wales -3 1 - -
North West -21 1 £375 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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 55 (100.00%) Oracle
2 50 (90.91%) Oracle Database
3 27 (49.09%) Data Guard
4 23 (41.82%) Oracle RMAN
5 22 (40.00%) SQL
6 20 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
6 20 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (30.91%) Linux
8 16 (29.09%) PL/SQL
9 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (23.64%) Azure
10 13 (23.64%) Migration
10 13 (23.64%) Python
11 12 (21.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (20.00%) MySQL
12 11 (20.00%) Unix
13 10 (18.18%) Line Management
13 10 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
13 10 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 10 (18.18%) Shell Script
13 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (16.36%) DevOps
14 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
15 8 (14.55%) AWS
15 8 (14.55%) Oracle Database 12c
15 8 (14.55%) Windows
16 7 (12.73%) Agile
16 7 (12.73%) Change Management
16 7 (12.73%) SC 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 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.64%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) OCI
3 3 (5.45%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 11 (20.00%) MySQL
3 10 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
4 8 (14.55%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.45%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.82%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.82%) Toad
General
1 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (12.73%) Finance
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.27%) Local Government
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Electronics
4 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.45%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Back Office
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Enterprise Cloud
2 7 (12.73%) Replication
3 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Linux
2 11 (20.00%) Unix
3 8 (14.55%) Windows
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.45%) Solaris
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.82%) AIX
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.64%) Migration
4 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (18.18%) Line Management
5 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.36%) DevOps
7 7 (12.73%) Agile
7 7 (12.73%) Change Management
8 6 (10.91%) High Availability
9 5 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.09%) Database Migration
10 4 (7.27%) Data Migration
10 4 (7.27%) Database Security
10 4 (7.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (7.27%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
11 3 (5.45%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) SQL
2 16 (29.09%) PL/SQL
3 13 (23.64%) Python
4 10 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.45%) Bash
5 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Perl
6 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) OCP
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (49.09%) Data Guard
2 23 (41.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (21.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (5.45%) Ansible
5 2 (3.64%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (3.64%) yum
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Delphix
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) Sybase
6 1 (1.82%) EMC
6 1 (1.82%) NEC