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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 515 598
Rank change year-on-year -63 +83 +112
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 35 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.055% 0.027%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 0.36% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 8
10th Percentile £382 £501 £429
25th Percentile £423 £511 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £628 - £580
90th Percentile £666 - £609
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -14.73% +15.79% +1.06%

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 6,186 4,753 5,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.46% 15.35% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,281 3,086 3,962
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 59 163
10th Percentile £17.24 £15.22 £14.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £21.05 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%
75th Percentile £63.32 £59.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.40 £70.89 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.25 £23.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +122.83% -50.19% +7.08%

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 13 February 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 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 RMAN within the UK over the 6 months to 13 February 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 -58 27 £525 - 5
UK excluding London -56 23 £469 -14.73% 4
South East -31 8 £510 -2.95% 4
North of England - 8 £393 -
Yorkshire - 8 £393 -
London -22 6 £625 +13.64% 2
Work from Home -8 5 £528 +4.35% 2
Midlands -52 4 £525 +47.47%
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
Scotland 0 2 - -
Wales - 1 - -

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 4 (11.43%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.57%) SAS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache
3 2 (5.71%) Liferay
3 2 (5.71%) nginx
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 6 (17.14%) OCI
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Storage
6 2 (5.71%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Kerberos
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (74.29%) Oracle Database
2 11 (31.43%) Oracle Exadata
3 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.57%) SQLPlus
6 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.71%) GIS
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (14.29%) Banking
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) DBA
1 22 (62.86%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (17.14%) NetBackup Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Veritas Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (2.86%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Senior
6 1 (2.86%) Senior DBA
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (2.86%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (5.71%) EJB
2 2 (5.71%) Java SE
2 2 (5.71%) JSP
2 2 (5.71%) OpenLayers
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (14.29%) Replication
2 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (17.14%) Windows
4 4 (11.43%) Unix
5 3 (8.57%) Solaris
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (31.43%) Task Automation
3 10 (28.57%) Migration
4 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
4 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
5 7 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 7 (20.00%) Database Migration
5 7 (20.00%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) Business Strategy
6 6 (17.14%) RBAC
6 6 (17.14%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.43%) Agile
9 3 (8.57%) Line Management
9 3 (8.57%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (8.57%) Re-Platforming
9 3 (8.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) SQL
2 20 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 12 (34.29%) Python
4 10 (28.57%) Bash
5 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (17.14%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Korn
6 2 (5.71%) Perl
7 1 (2.86%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) OCP
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (62.86%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Clusterware
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Data Guard
2 13 (37.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (17.14%) NetBackup
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (5.71%) Foglight
5 2 (5.71%) systemd
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (22.86%) VMware
3 6 (17.14%) CyberArk
3 6 (17.14%) Google
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
3 6 (17.14%) Veritas
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) Commvault
6 1 (2.86%) Delphix