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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 505 557
Rank change year-on-year -91 +52 +48
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 84 54 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.041%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.43% 1.19% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 40 8
10th Percentile £392 £361 £324
25th Percentile £500 £377 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £456 £620
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -26.41% +23.02%
75th Percentile £638 £531 £641
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £463 £338
% change year-on-year +30.81% +37.04% -32.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

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 5,875 4,552 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 13.91% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 2,957 3,171
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -2.82% -6.36%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 80 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £82.20 £78.83 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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 26 August 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 14 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 26 August 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 -79 77 £550 +22.22% 1
UK excluding London -72 61 £605 +30.81%
North of England -54 35 £625 +63.40%
North West - 23 £638 -
South East -62 19 £548 +5.49%
London -71 12 £550 +42.86% 1
Yorkshire -47 8 £605 +58.17%
Work from Home -73 7 £550 +22.22% 1
North East - 7 £501 -
Midlands -51 3 £613 -
West Midlands -57 3 £613 -
South West -51 2 £715 +3.25%
Wales -15 1 £500 +33.33%
Scotland -22 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 6 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.76%) nginx
2 4 (4.76%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.33%) AWS
2 19 (22.62%) OCI
3 5 (5.95%) Azure
4 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (1.19%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) MinIO
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (1.19%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (83.33%) Oracle Database
2 24 (28.57%) Oracle Database 12c
3 20 (23.81%) Oracle Exadata
4 17 (20.24%) RDBMS
4 17 (20.24%) Relational Database
5 16 (19.05%) Oracle Database 11g
5 16 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.38%) GIS
9 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.38%) SQLite
10 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.19%) Db2
10 1 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.19%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) GitLab
2 8 (9.52%) Git
3 3 (3.57%) Toad
4 2 (2.38%) Flyway
4 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Military
6 2 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) International Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (65.48%) DBA
2 50 (59.52%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (16.67%) Administrator
3 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared DBA
4 12 (14.29%) Senior
5 10 (11.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) SQL DBA
7 8 (9.52%) Database Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Oracle Specialist
8 7 (8.33%) Support Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared DBA
9 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 5 (5.95%) Lead
10 5 (5.95%) Support Specialist
11 4 (4.76%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
13 2 (2.38%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (36.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 22 (26.19%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) YAML
4 3 (3.57%) Middleware
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle Streams
5 2 (2.38%) Java SE
6 1 (1.19%) EJB
6 1 (1.19%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (1.19%) JSP
6 1 (1.19%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 14 (16.67%) Replication
2 4 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.38%) Clustering
3 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (59.52%) Linux
2 31 (36.90%) Unix
3 18 (21.43%) AIX
4 11 (13.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (8.33%) Solaris
6 6 (7.14%) Windows
7 4 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
7 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.19%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 37 (44.05%) High Availability
3 31 (36.90%) Migration
4 26 (30.95%) ITIL
5 21 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (17.86%) Database Tuning
7 15 (17.86%) DevOps
7 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 13 (15.48%) Data Migration
9 13 (15.48%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (13.10%) Database Security
11 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (10.71%) Release Management
12 8 (9.52%) Change Management
12 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (9.52%) Runbook
12 8 (9.52%) Service Management
12 8 (9.52%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (58.33%) SQL
2 31 (36.90%) PL/SQL
3 16 (19.05%) Python
3 16 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 9 (10.71%) Korn
5 6 (7.14%) Bash
6 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Java
8 2 (2.38%) Perl
9 1 (1.19%) RPG
Qualifications
1 52 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 40 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 9 (10.71%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (7.14%) Degree
6 3 (3.57%) OCP
7 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
System Software
1 59 (70.24%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.57%) Docker
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (71.43%) Data Guard
2 26 (30.95%) Ansible
3 17 (20.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.95%) IBM
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.76%) VMware
5 2 (2.38%) Remedy
6 1 (1.19%) Google