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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 492 559
Rank change year-on-year -85 +67 +66
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 90 54 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.032%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.28% 1.06% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 11
10th Percentile £365 £361 £324
25th Percentile £469 £378 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £473 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% -17.83% +14.09%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £474 £338
% change year-on-year +16.09% +40.37% -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 7,026 5,106 5,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 15.59% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,767 3,366 3,741
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -3.75% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 75 83
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £25.07 £19.56 £22.16
Median hourly rate £61.00 £37.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% +20.97% -46.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +7.94% +56.77% -24.03%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -77 81 £550 +17.33% 6
UK excluding London -71 67 £550 +16.09% 6
North of England -53 34 £625 +65.56% 3
South East -52 26 £425 -19.14% 2
North West - 22 £625 - 1
London -64 12 £525 +16.67%
Yorkshire -47 8 £600 +58.94% 2
Work from Home -69 8 £501 +8.22% 1
North East - 7 £501 -
Scotland -19 2 - -
South West -43 2 £715 +3.25%
Midlands -51 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -52 2 £550 - 1
Wales -15 1 £500 +33.33%

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 7 (7.78%) WebLogic
2 6 (6.67%) nginx
2 6 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.11%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.00%) AWS
2 18 (20.00%) OCI
3 7 (7.78%) Azure
4 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (1.11%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (85.56%) Oracle Database
2 28 (31.11%) Oracle Database 12c
3 22 (24.44%) SQL Server
4 18 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 17 (18.89%) Oracle Database 11g
5 17 (18.89%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (16.67%) RDBMS
6 15 (16.67%) Relational Database
7 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database 10g
8 6 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.22%) GIS
10 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.22%) SQLite
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) GitLab
2 8 (8.89%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) Toad
4 2 (2.22%) Flyway
4 2 (2.22%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Advertising
6 3 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (1.11%) Banking
7 1 (1.11%) International Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (64.44%) DBA
2 53 (58.89%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (15.56%) Administrator
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Database Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
7 9 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.00%) SQL DBA
8 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared DBA
9 6 (6.67%) Oracle Specialist
9 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (4.44%) Lead
10 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior DBA
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 3 (3.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (37.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (4.44%) Middleware
2 4 (4.44%) YAML
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle Streams
4 2 (2.22%) Java SE
5 1 (1.11%) EJB
5 1 (1.11%) JSP
5 1 (1.11%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Public Cloud
1 13 (14.44%) Replication
2 7 (7.78%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) Life Science
5 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (57.78%) Linux
2 37 (41.11%) Unix
3 16 (17.78%) AIX
4 14 (15.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (11.11%) Solaris
5 10 (11.11%) Windows
6 7 (7.78%) Windows Server
7 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (4.44%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.22%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.56%) Performance Tuning
2 39 (43.33%) High Availability
3 31 (34.44%) ITIL
4 28 (31.11%) Migration
5 22 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.78%) DevOps
8 15 (16.67%) Release Management
9 14 (15.56%) Database Tuning
10 12 (13.33%) Data Migration
10 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (12.22%) Database Security
12 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.89%) Security Hardening
13 8 (8.89%) SQL Optimisation
14 7 (7.78%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 48 (53.33%) SQL
2 30 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 22 (24.44%) Shell Script
4 15 (16.67%) Korn
4 15 (16.67%) Python
5 6 (6.67%) Bash
6 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.33%) Java
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
9 1 (1.11%) JCL
9 1 (1.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 55 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (47.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 10 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (6.67%) Degree
6 3 (3.33%) OCP
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.11%) GRC
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (68.89%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (62.22%) Data Guard
2 24 (26.67%) Ansible
3 23 (25.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 20 (22.22%) Terraform
5 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (3.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 7 (7.78%) IBM
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (1.11%) Commvault
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) Wonderware