Oracle RAC Contracts

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Oracle RAC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle RAC over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 553 639
Rank change year-on-year +61 +86 +54
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 29 20 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.81% 0.44% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 41
10th Percentile £426 £324 £450
25th Percentile £502 £343 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £480 £504
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -4.76% -4.00%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £575
90th Percentile £611 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £350 £525
% change year-on-year +59.86% -33.33% +5.00%

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 3,588 4,571 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 10.74% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,437 3,147 5,323
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £388 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £480
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 230 260
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.41 £14.48 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.40 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -58.52% +170.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.53 £78.20 £75.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £19.18 £41.88
% change year-on-year +68.57% -54.21% +131.16%

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 16 May 2025.

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 9 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 16 May 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
UK excluding London +52 19 £560 +59.86% 9
England +82 18 £559 +15.26% 14
Scotland +10 10 £560 +62.76%
Work from Home +22 8 £529 -3.91% 11
London - 8 £550 - 8
South East - 5 £700 - 6
North of England +20 3 £388 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +16 3 £388 -20.00% 2
South West - 1 - - 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 4 (13.79%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) OCI
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (72.41%) Oracle Database
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle Database 12c
2 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (20.69%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
5 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (3.45%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (3.45%) Serena SBM
1 1 (3.45%) Subversion
1 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) French Language
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) DBA
1 16 (55.17%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (27.59%) Database Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Database Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Licensing
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (24.14%) Solaris
3 7 (24.14%) Windows
4 5 (17.24%) AIX
4 5 (17.24%) Unix
5 2 (6.90%) VMS
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (62.07%) High Availability
3 12 (41.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Database Migration
5 9 (31.03%) Database Tuning
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
6 7 (24.14%) Problem Management
7 5 (17.24%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (17.24%) ITIL
7 5 (17.24%) Software Licensing
8 4 (13.79%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (13.79%) DevOps
8 4 (13.79%) Service Management
8 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Workflow
9 3 (10.34%) Capacity Management
9 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.34%) ERP
9 3 (10.34%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
4 2 (6.90%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) JCL
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
5 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) NFS
1 1 (3.45%) Samba
1 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Data Guard
2 15 (51.72%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (41.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 4 (13.79%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (3.45%) Control-M
6 1 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (3.45%) QRadar
6 1 (3.45%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
3 4 (13.79%) Dell
3 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) BMC
6 1 (3.45%) Commvault
6 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.45%) Delphix
6 1 (3.45%) EMC
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Serena
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) Sybase
6 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media
6 1 (3.45%) VMware