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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 545 609
Rank change year-on-year +21 +64 +131
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 40 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.041% 0.043%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.29% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 13
10th Percentile £378 £472 £359
25th Percentile £419 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £641 £630 £538
90th Percentile £714 £638 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,588 5,233 6,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.35% 14.22% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,680 3,399 4,860
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 57 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.82 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £27.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% -27.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -35.65% -24.03% +109.91%

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 29 October 2025.

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 12 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 29 October 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
England +20 38 £550 -10.57%
UK excluding London +2 31 £500 -9.09%
Work from Home +25 13 £463 -26.00%
North of England - 9 £388 -
Yorkshire - 9 £388 -
South West - 9 £693 -
London +6 8 £620 -
South East - 8 £500 -
West Midlands -21 3 £333 -
Midlands -24 3 £333 -6.60%
Scotland -1 1 - -
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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) GCP
4 7 (17.50%) OCI
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (72.50%) Oracle Database
2 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 9 (22.50%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (27.50%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Electronics
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) DBA
2 26 (65.00%) Oracle DBA
3 9 (22.50%) NetBackup Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
5 5 (12.50%) Administrator
6 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
7 3 (7.50%) Veritas Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Backup Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Senior DBA
9 1 (2.50%) Commvault Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) IT Technical Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Migration Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Oracle Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Performance Tuning DBA
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 6 (15.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (47.50%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (37.50%) Task Automation
4 11 (27.50%) Data Protection
5 10 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 10 (25.00%) Migration
6 9 (22.50%) Business Strategy
6 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
6 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) RBAC
6 9 (22.50%) Security Monitoring
7 8 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (17.50%) Database Migration
9 6 (15.00%) High Availability
10 5 (12.50%) Line Management
11 4 (10.00%) ERP
11 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (10.00%) SOA
11 4 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) PL/SQL
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 13 (32.50%) Bash
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) OCP
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 20 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Data Guard
2 15 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 9 (22.50%) NetBackup
4 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (22.50%) CyberArk
2 9 (22.50%) Google
2 9 (22.50%) Veritas
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.50%) Commvault
5 1 (2.50%) Delphix