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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 481 572
Rank change year-on-year -82 +91 +90
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 58 40 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.030%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% 0.86% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 10
10th Percentile £382 £360 £324
25th Percentile £415 £375 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +15.15% -23.26%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £573
90th Percentile £675 £550 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £474 £344
% change year-on-year +10.82% +37.82% -37.50%

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 6,430 4,667 5,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 15.85% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,424 3,208 3,692
10th Percentile £323 £313 £258
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.77% -9.39%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 50 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.63 £21.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £73.00 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -34.86%

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 20 April 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 20 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 -92 51 £525 +35.31% 4
UK excluding London -92 41 £525 +10.82% 3
South East -32 24 £420 -20.00% 2
North of England -62 13 £650 +73.33%
London -47 9 £525 - 2
Work from Home -33 8 £494 +4.50% 1
North West - 8 £650 -
Yorkshire -64 5 £630 +68.00%
Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
Scotland -14 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 7 (12.07%) WebLogic
2 6 (10.34%) nginx
2 6 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (5.17%) SAS
4 2 (3.45%) Apache
4 2 (3.45%) Liferay
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) AWS
2 8 (13.79%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) OCI
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Storage
3 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.17%) PaaS
4 2 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) HTTP
2 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (82.76%) Oracle Database
2 18 (31.03%) Oracle Database 12c
3 16 (27.59%) SQL Server
4 10 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (15.52%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (10.34%) Oracle Database 11g
6 6 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (6.90%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.17%) SQLPlus
9 2 (3.45%) GIS
9 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Flyway
1 2 (3.45%) Liquibase
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.90%) Advertising
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (1.72%) Legal
4 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.72%) Military
4 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) DBA
1 39 (67.24%) Oracle DBA
2 10 (17.24%) Support Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Database Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Administrator
5 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared DBA
6 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Senior DBA
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (5.17%) YAML
3 2 (3.45%) EJB
3 2 (3.45%) Java SE
3 2 (3.45%) JSP
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) OpenLayers
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) Clustering
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Life Science
5 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Linux
2 20 (34.48%) Unix
3 16 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (18.97%) Windows
5 7 (12.07%) Solaris
6 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (5.17%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.45%) OpenVMS
10 1 (1.72%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) High Availability
2 23 (39.66%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (31.03%) ITIL
4 14 (24.14%) Release Management
5 12 (20.69%) DevOps
6 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.52%) Migration
9 8 (13.79%) Database Tuning
9 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.07%) Runbook
10 7 (12.07%) SQL Optimisation
11 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.34%) ETL
11 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.34%) Refactoring
11 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
12 5 (8.62%) Data Protection
12 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (8.62%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (67.24%) SQL
2 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
3 21 (36.21%) Shell Script
4 15 (25.86%) Korn
5 8 (13.79%) Python
6 3 (5.17%) Java
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) Perl
7 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) JCL
8 1 (1.72%) RPG
Qualifications
1 31 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (6.90%) OCP
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 37 (63.79%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (10.34%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 24 (41.38%) Data Guard
2 22 (37.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 10 (17.24%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Terraform
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (3.45%) Foglight
5 2 (3.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (18.97%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.34%) IBM
3 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) VMware
4 1 (1.72%) Commvault
4 1 (1.72%) Wonderware