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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 550 609
Rank change year-on-year +36 +59 +154
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 51 16 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.042% 0.074%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.98% 0.30% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 8 20
10th Percentile £361 £550 £347
25th Percentile £378 £559 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £620 £488
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.18% -11.36%
75th Percentile £628 £641 £504
90th Percentile £706 £650 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% +2.70%
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 5,189 5,252 7,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.89% 13.68% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,403 3,540 5,199
10th Percentile £300 £311 £325
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £687 £708 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.75% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 65 179
10th Percentile £13.75 £19.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.38% -27.27% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.69 £64.50 £75.25
90th Percentile £67.23 £74.78 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £47.83
% change year-on-year -45.50% -17.94% +122.47%

Oracle RMAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle RMAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle RMAN 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +50 48 £469 -25.00% 5
UK excluding London +48 40 £463 -15.91% 4
North of England - 16 £385 - 2
Yorkshire - 16 £385 - 2
Work from Home +30 15 £450 -28.00%
London +19 10 £450 -28.00% 2
South East - 10 £519 - 2
South West - 9 £693 -
Scotland 0 2 - -
West Midlands -9 2 - -
Midlands -13 2 - -
Wales - 1 £375 -

Oracle RMAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (19.61%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (7.84%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.96%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (45.10%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) GCP
4 8 (15.69%) OCI
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.96%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) NAS
2 1 (1.96%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (74.51%) Oracle Database
2 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
3 10 (19.61%) Oracle Exadata
4 9 (17.65%) Oracle Database 12c
4 9 (17.65%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (7.84%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Power BI
7 1 (1.96%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Banking
3 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Electronics
5 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.88%) Marketing
5 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (52.94%) DBA
2 26 (50.98%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (19.61%) Backup Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Commvault Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) NetBackup Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Lead
6 5 (9.80%) Administrator
6 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared DBA
7 3 (5.88%) Veritas Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Architect
8 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared DBA
8 2 (3.92%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Senior
8 2 (3.92%) Senior DBA
9 1 (1.96%) Analyst
9 1 (1.96%) Business Analyst
9 1 (1.96%) Consultant
9 1 (1.96%) IT Technical Specialist
9 1 (1.96%) Oracle Specialist
9 1 (1.96%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 7 (13.73%) Replication
3 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) Unix
2 8 (15.69%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.92%) VMS
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.96%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (49.02%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (37.25%) Migration
4 17 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (31.37%) Task Automation
6 13 (25.49%) Data Protection
7 11 (21.57%) Business Continuity
7 11 (21.57%) Change Management
8 10 (19.61%) Problem Management
9 9 (17.65%) Business Strategy
9 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 9 (17.65%) Data Migration
9 9 (17.65%) Database Migration
9 9 (17.65%) RBAC
9 9 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
9 9 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (15.69%) Capacity Planning
11 7 (13.73%) High Availability
12 5 (9.80%) Line Management
13 4 (7.84%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) PL/SQL
1 19 (37.25%) SQL
2 14 (27.45%) Python
3 13 (25.49%) Bash
4 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.84%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) OCP
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) GDPR
1 2 (3.92%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (47.06%) Data Guard
2 15 (29.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 11 (21.57%) NetBackup
4 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.96%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 50 (98.04%) Oracle
2 11 (21.57%) Veritas
3 9 (17.65%) Commvault
3 9 (17.65%) CyberArk
3 9 (17.65%) Google
3 9 (17.65%) VMware
4 4 (7.84%) SAP
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.88%) Sybase
6 1 (1.96%) Dell
6 1 (1.96%) Delphix
6 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media