Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 500 564
Rank change year-on-year -68 +64 +89
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 54 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.053%
As % of the System Software category 1.10% 0.54% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 14 15
10th Percentile £342 £422 £324
25th Percentile £396 £510 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% -7.62%
75th Percentile £594 £589 £600
90th Percentile £650 £605 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £545 £350
% change year-on-year -20.20% +55.57% -36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All System Software Skills
UK

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,893 3,731 4,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.59% 12.68% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,554 3,213
10th Percentile £213 £213 £194
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £460
% change year-on-year -2.06% +5.43% -4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 91 233
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.67% +26.27% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £88.00 £71.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +78.57% -45.45%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle RAC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Top 11 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 RAC within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -66 41 £506 -8.00% 3
UK excluding London -91 30 £435 -20.20% 3
South East -31 18 £392 -44.00% 1
London -40 9 £506 -8.00%
Work from Home -30 7 £488 -7.76% 1
South West -23 4 £606 -
West Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
North of England -74 3 £538 +41.35%
North West - 3 £538 -
Scotland -6 1 - -

Oracle RAC
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 13 (24.07%) WebLogic
2 6 (11.11%) nginx
2 6 (11.11%) Tomcat
3 5 (9.26%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (5.56%) SAS
6 2 (3.70%) Apache
6 2 (3.70%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) OCI
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (1.85%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) HTTP
2 3 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (59.26%) Oracle Database
2 17 (31.48%) SQL Server
3 10 (18.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 7 (12.96%) Oracle Database 12c
4 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 5 (9.26%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
7 4 (7.41%) MySQL
8 3 (5.56%) SQLPlus
9 2 (3.70%) GIS
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.70%) Flyway
2 2 (3.70%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Advertising
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) DBA
1 28 (51.85%) Oracle DBA
2 10 (18.52%) Architect
2 10 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Senior DBA
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (5.56%) SOAP
2 3 (5.56%) XML
3 2 (3.70%) EJB
3 2 (3.70%) Itk
3 2 (3.70%) Java SE
3 2 (3.70%) JSP
3 2 (3.70%) Middleware
3 2 (3.70%) OpenLayers
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Linux
2 16 (29.63%) Unix
3 12 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (18.52%) Windows
5 8 (14.81%) Solaris
6 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
7 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.70%) OpenVMS
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.85%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) ITIL
2 15 (27.78%) High Availability
2 15 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (25.93%) Migration
3 14 (25.93%) Release Management
4 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.67%) ETL
6 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.96%) Cloud Security
7 6 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (11.11%) DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.11%) Refactoring
7 6 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
7 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.26%) Agile
8 5 (9.26%) Database Tuning
8 5 (9.26%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (9.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) SQL
2 25 (46.30%) PL/SQL
3 15 (27.78%) Korn
3 15 (27.78%) Shell Script
4 10 (18.52%) Java
5 7 (12.96%) Python
6 2 (3.70%) Bash
6 2 (3.70%) C
6 2 (3.70%) C++
6 2 (3.70%) Perl
6 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) JCL
7 1 (1.85%) RPG
7 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.85%) GRC
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
1 6 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (68.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (38.89%) Data Guard
2 21 (38.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) Terraform
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (3.70%) Foglight
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (18.52%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.11%) IBM
3 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Commvault
5 1 (1.85%) Google