Oracle RAC Contracts

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle RAC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 650 700
Rank change year-on-year +75 +50 -90
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 23 69 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.87% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 49 96
10th Percentile £324 £410 £409
25th Percentile £350 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £504 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -7.52% +28.24%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £621
90th Percentile £610 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -33.33% +6.06% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £28.75
75th Percentile £53.75 - £33.13
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Oracle RAC is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle RAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +43 15 £350 -33.33% 1
Work from Home +113 12 £550 +9.13% 1
Scotland +33 9 £344 -27.63%
England +86 7 £590 +9.77% 1
London +88 3 £590 +24.21%
Wales +18 3 £538 -2.27%
North of England +22 1 £485 -7.62%
Midlands +22 1 - -
East of England +16 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £485 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Oracle RAC
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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) Oracle Database
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (26.09%) PowerCenter
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (17.39%) Metadata
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.35%) MySQL
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) DBA
2 15 (65.22%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (34.78%) Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior DBA
6 2 (8.70%) Analytics Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) ETL Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle ETL Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior SQL Developer
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Middleware
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Unix
3 7 (30.43%) AIX
4 3 (13.04%) Windows
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Solaris
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (47.83%) High Availability
3 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Database Security
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) E-business
4 6 (26.09%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
6 4 (17.39%) Database Tuning
6 4 (17.39%) Security Management
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
8 2 (8.70%) Analytics
8 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
8 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (8.70%) ETL
8 2 (8.70%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Shell Script
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) OCP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) IFRS
2 1 (4.35%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Data Guard
2 9 (39.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 9 (39.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Informatica
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) EMC
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) VMware