Oracle RMAN Contract Job Trends

Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle RMAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 482 567
Rank change year-on-year -82 +85 +60
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 71 44 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.09% 0.96% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 7
10th Percentile £392 £360 -
25th Percentile £469 £375 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% +35.36% -30.56%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £501
90th Percentile £675 £568 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £474 £338
% change year-on-year +16.09% +40.37% -34.15%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Oracle RMAN falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,542 4,581 5,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 15.83% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,473 3,111 3,781
10th Percentile £325 £311 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £495 £495
% change year-on-year -1.01% +0.10% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 48 100
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.70 £20.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.29 £51.44
90th Percentile £75.10 £79.09 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -6.43%

Oracle RMAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle RMAN job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle RMAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle RMAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RMAN over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RMAN in the UK

Oracle RMAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle RMAN
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 RMAN within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -88 62 £550 +41.03% 7
UK excluding London -82 51 £550 +16.09% 5
South East -41 26 £425 -18.68% 4
North of England -73 17 £630 +68.00%
London -65 11 £569 +16.67% 5
Work from Home -44 9 £550 +13.11% 3
North West - 9 £650 -
Yorkshire -68 6 £610 +62.67%
Midlands - 5 £525 -
West Midlands - 5 £525 -
Scotland -12 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £490 -
South West -29 1 £700 -

Oracle RMAN
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 7 (9.86%) WebLogic
2 6 (8.45%) nginx
2 6 (8.45%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.23%) SAS
4 2 (2.82%) Apache
4 2 (2.82%) Liferay
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
2 10 (14.08%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) OCI
4 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.23%) PaaS
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) HTTP
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (84.51%) Oracle Database
2 21 (29.58%) Oracle Database 12c
3 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
4 13 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (14.08%) Oracle Database 11g
5 10 (14.08%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (8.45%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.23%) SQLPlus
9 2 (2.82%) GIS
9 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.82%) Flyway
2 2 (2.82%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
1 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Advertising
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) International Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Legal
5 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (71.83%) DBA
2 48 (67.61%) Oracle DBA
3 11 (15.49%) Administrator
4 10 (14.08%) Database Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Support Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared DBA
7 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 4 (5.63%) Senior
9 3 (4.23%) Architect
9 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared DBA
9 3 (4.23%) Oracle Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Senior DBA
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.23%) SQL DBA
10 2 (2.82%) Oracle Specialist
10 2 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (5.63%) Middleware
2 4 (5.63%) YAML
3 2 (2.82%) EJB
3 2 (2.82%) Java SE
3 2 (2.82%) JSP
3 2 (2.82%) OpenLayers
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Legacy Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.04%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.63%) Replication
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
5 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Life Science
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (52.11%) Linux
2 27 (38.03%) Unix
3 17 (23.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (16.90%) Windows
5 8 (11.27%) Solaris
6 7 (9.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (5.63%) AIX
9 4 (5.63%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (2.82%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) High Availability
2 33 (46.48%) Performance Tuning
3 24 (33.80%) ITIL
4 15 (21.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (21.13%) Release Management
5 14 (19.72%) DevOps
6 13 (18.31%) Migration
7 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
8 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
8 9 (12.68%) Runbook
9 8 (11.27%) Database Tuning
9 8 (11.27%) Security Hardening
10 7 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.86%) Database Security
10 7 (9.86%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (9.86%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (8.45%) Change Management
11 6 (8.45%) Refactoring
11 6 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (64.79%) SQL
2 30 (42.25%) PL/SQL
3 23 (32.39%) Shell Script
4 15 (21.13%) Korn
5 11 (15.49%) Python
6 3 (4.23%) Bash
6 3 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) JCL
8 1 (1.41%) RPG
Qualifications
1 41 (57.75%) Security Cleared
2 33 (46.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) OCP
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.41%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (59.15%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 6 (8.45%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Data Guard
2 20 (28.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (16.90%) Ansible
4 5 (7.04%) Terraform
5 2 (2.82%) systemd
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.41%) Foglight
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (15.49%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.86%) IBM
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.41%) Commvault
5 1 (1.41%) Wonderware