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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 500 579
Rank change year-on-year -89 +79 +120
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 47 26 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.088% 0.029%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 0.55% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 10
10th Percentile £313 £363 £324
25th Percentile £392 £388 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +21.21% -23.26%
75th Percentile £611 £550 £534
90th Percentile £675 - £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -3.10% +42.86% -36.36%

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 6,345 4,767 5,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.72% 16.12% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,371 3,185 3,801
10th Percentile £315 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.11% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 53 145
10th Percentile £18.99 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.55 £82.11 £73.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -8.57%

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 16 March 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 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 16 March 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 -67 40 £488 +25.64% 13
UK excluding London -72 38 £485 -3.10% 9
South East -25 23 £420 -20.00% 4
Work from Home -23 9 £494 -1.25% 2
North of England -53 9 £650 +70.38% 4
North West - 5 £650 - 3
London -51 4 £488 -11.36% 3
Midlands -54 4 £525 +47.47%
Yorkshire -57 4 £588 +54.00% 1
West Midlands - 4 £525 -
Scotland -4 1 - -
Wales -6 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 (12.77%) WebLogic
2 4 (8.51%) nginx
2 4 (8.51%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (6.38%) SAS
4 2 (4.26%) Apache
4 2 (4.26%) Liferay
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (8.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) OCI
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.38%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.26%) IaaS
5 2 (4.26%) PaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTP
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (85.11%) Oracle Database
2 16 (34.04%) Oracle Database 12c
3 15 (31.91%) SQL Server
4 7 (14.89%) Oracle Exadata
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (6.38%) SQLPlus
8 2 (4.26%) GIS
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.13%) Flyway
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.51%) Advertising
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.13%) Military
4 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (70.21%) DBA
1 33 (70.21%) Oracle DBA
2 9 (19.15%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Database Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Administrator
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared DBA
5 3 (6.38%) Senior DBA
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Production DBA
7 1 (2.13%) Production DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (40.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (4.26%) EJB
2 2 (4.26%) Java SE
2 2 (4.26%) JSP
2 2 (4.26%) Middleware
2 2 (4.26%) OpenLayers
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.64%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (42.55%) Linux
2 16 (34.04%) Unix
3 14 (29.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (19.15%) Windows
5 5 (10.64%) Solaris
5 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.26%) OpenVMS
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) High Availability
2 18 (38.30%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (29.79%) ITIL
4 13 (27.66%) Release Management
5 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) DevOps
6 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (14.89%) Migration
7 5 (10.64%) Agile
7 5 (10.64%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.51%) Database Migration
8 4 (8.51%) Database Tuning
8 4 (8.51%) ETL
8 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (8.51%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (8.51%) Refactoring
8 4 (8.51%) Runbook
8 4 (8.51%) SQL Optimisation
8 4 (8.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) SQL
2 18 (38.30%) PL/SQL
3 16 (34.04%) Shell Script
4 14 (29.79%) Korn
5 3 (6.38%) Python
6 2 (4.26%) Java
6 2 (4.26%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) JCL
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 22 (46.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (8.51%) OCP
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (68.09%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (8.51%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle Clusterware
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (46.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 16 (34.04%) Data Guard
3 6 (12.77%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Terraform
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (4.26%) Foglight
5 2 (4.26%) systemd
Vendors
1 47 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (19.15%) Red Hat
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.51%) IBM
4 4 (8.51%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Commvault
5 1 (2.13%) Wonderware