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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 504 543
Rank change year-on-year -102 +39 +65
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 64 48 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.045%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.05% 1.02% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 33 9
10th Percentile £473 £363 £511
25th Percentile £512 £380 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -22.76% +23.00%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £708 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £469 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.77% +15.79%
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 6,095 4,718 4,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.10% 14.29% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,040 3,048 2,983
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £680 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £493
% change year-on-year +4.44% -2.89% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 95 57
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.05 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.92% -33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.20 £67.15 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £38.00
% change year-on-year +195.16% -43.71% -21.02%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -109 54 £550 +15.79% 5
UK excluding London -103 40 £625 +33.33% 2
North of England -60 23 £625 +62.34%
North West - 15 £625 -
Work from Home -71 12 £566 +25.78% 4
London -80 11 £530 +4.69% 5
South East -63 10 £549 +4.52% 1
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -45 4 £363 -5.84%
Midlands -44 3 £613 -
West Midlands -47 3 £613 -
South West -49 2 £715 +3.25%
Scotland -22 1 - -
Wales - 1 £500 - 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 13 (20.31%) WebLogic
2 10 (15.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (9.38%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (3.13%) nginx
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.56%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) AWS
2 18 (28.13%) OCI
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
3 6 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (9.38%) Serverless
4 5 (7.81%) Azure
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.56%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) MinIO
6 1 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
1 1 (1.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (89.06%) Oracle Database
2 18 (28.13%) Oracle Database 11g
2 18 (28.13%) Oracle Database 12c
3 17 (26.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 16 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 16 (25.00%) Relational Database
5 12 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
6 8 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.13%) GIS
8 2 (3.13%) SQLite
9 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.56%) Db2
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.56%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (20.31%) GitLab
2 12 (18.75%) Git
3 4 (6.25%) Flyway
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (4.69%) Toad
General
1 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
4 3 (4.69%) Military
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (67.19%) DBA
2 38 (59.38%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Administrator
5 10 (15.63%) Senior
5 10 (15.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) SQL DBA
7 8 (12.50%) Oracle Specialist
8 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared DBA
10 5 (7.81%) Support Specialist
11 4 (6.25%) Lead
11 4 (6.25%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (4.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (3.13%) Database Engineer
13 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database Engineer
13 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 1 (1.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 1 (1.56%) Oracle Architect
14 1 (1.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 19 (29.69%) Terraform
3 6 (9.38%) Middleware
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle Streams
5 2 (3.13%) Java SE
5 2 (3.13%) YAML
6 1 (1.56%) EJB
6 1 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (1.56%) JSP
6 1 (1.56%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Public Cloud
2 12 (18.75%) Replication
3 6 (9.38%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (75.00%) Linux
2 28 (43.75%) Unix
3 17 (26.56%) AIX
4 6 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.81%) Solaris
6 4 (6.25%) Windows
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Performance Tuning
2 28 (43.75%) Migration
3 22 (34.38%) High Availability
4 17 (26.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (25.00%) DevOps
5 16 (25.00%) ITIL
6 15 (23.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
8 12 (18.75%) Data Migration
9 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (17.19%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (15.63%) Database Security
10 10 (15.63%) Database Tuning
10 10 (15.63%) SOA
11 9 (14.06%) Data Modelling
11 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
12 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.94%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) SQL
2 28 (43.75%) PL/SQL
3 11 (17.19%) Python
4 6 (9.38%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.13%) Java
7 2 (3.13%) Perl
8 1 (1.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 41 (64.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.44%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (7.81%) Degree
6 3 (4.69%) OCP
7 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (68.75%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (82.81%) Data Guard
2 21 (32.81%) Ansible
3 12 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (4.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.69%) IBM
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) Remedy
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Google