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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 494 582
Rank change year-on-year -84 +88 +38
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 81 56 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.026%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% 1.09% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 41 9
10th Percentile £392 £361 -
25th Percentile £469 £378 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% -30.56%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £338
% change year-on-year +10.00% +48.15% -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 7,096 5,134 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.71% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,853 3,396 3,844
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.26% -5.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 71 101
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.21% +42.50% -13.21%

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 13 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 13 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 -84 72 £550 +12.82% 8
UK excluding London -80 60 £550 +10.00% 6
North of England -62 28 £625 +65.56% 3
South East -58 25 £420 -20.00% 2
North West - 18 £650 - 3
London -65 11 £525 +16.67% 2
Work from Home -67 7 £501 +16.06% 2
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -60 6 £610 +61.59%
Scotland -22 2 - -
South West -38 2 £715 +0.35%
Midlands -49 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -65 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 (8.64%) nginx
1 7 (8.64%) Tomcat
1 7 (8.64%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.23%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.40%) AWS
2 16 (19.75%) OCI
3 5 (6.17%) Azure
4 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (83.95%) Oracle Database
2 23 (28.40%) Oracle Database 12c
3 20 (24.69%) SQL Server
4 16 (19.75%) Oracle Exadata
5 15 (18.52%) Oracle Database 11g
6 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (14.81%) RDBMS
7 12 (14.81%) Relational Database
8 7 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (7.41%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (3.70%) GIS
10 3 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.47%) SQLite
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.23%) Db2
12 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) GitLab
2 7 (8.64%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) Flyway
3 2 (2.47%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.64%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Advertising
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Banking
6 1 (1.23%) International Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (62.96%) DBA
2 48 (59.26%) Oracle DBA
3 12 (14.81%) Senior
4 11 (13.58%) Administrator
5 10 (12.35%) Database Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) SQL DBA
7 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared DBA
8 5 (6.17%) Oracle Specialist
8 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared DBA
9 3 (3.70%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Senior DBA
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 2 (2.47%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (35.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (4.94%) Middleware
2 4 (4.94%) YAML
3 3 (3.70%) Java SE
4 2 (2.47%) EJB
4 2 (2.47%) JSP
4 2 (2.47%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.88%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.41%) Replication
5 2 (2.47%) Clustering
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 48 (59.26%) Linux
2 35 (43.21%) Unix
3 14 (17.28%) AIX
4 12 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (13.58%) Solaris
5 11 (13.58%) Windows
6 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
7 7 (8.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (6.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (4.94%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (2.47%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) Performance Tuning
2 32 (39.51%) High Availability
3 31 (38.27%) ITIL
4 22 (27.16%) Migration
5 17 (20.99%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (18.52%) Release Management
7 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
8 13 (16.05%) DevOps
9 11 (13.58%) Data Migration
10 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (11.11%) Database Tuning
11 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 9 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (9.88%) Database Security
12 8 (9.88%) Security Hardening
13 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.64%) Runbook
13 7 (8.64%) Service Management
13 7 (8.64%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (51.85%) SQL
2 28 (34.57%) PL/SQL
3 21 (25.93%) Shell Script
4 15 (18.52%) Korn
5 14 (17.28%) Python
6 4 (4.94%) Bash
6 4 (4.94%) Java
7 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.23%) JCL
8 1 (1.23%) RPG
Qualifications
1 50 (61.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (50.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.88%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (6.17%) Degree
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (65.43%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (56.79%) Data Guard
2 22 (27.16%) Ansible
3 19 (23.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 18 (22.22%) Terraform
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (9.88%) IBM
2 8 (9.88%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.64%) VMware
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.47%) Remedy
6 1 (1.23%) Commvault
6 1 (1.23%) Wonderware