Oracle RAC Contracts

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle RAC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 638 674
Rank change year-on-year +75 +36 -50
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 19 65 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 0.41% 0.86% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 44 112
10th Percentile £324 £405 £405
25th Percentile £343 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.00% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £613
90th Percentile - £575 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.38
Median hourly rate - - £28.75
75th Percentile - - £33.13
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Oracle RAC is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,633 7,592 11,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.11% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,189 5,406 8,421
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.97%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 269 311
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.24 £13.35
25th Percentile £14.74 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.56 £66.00 £45.13
90th Percentile £77.10 £75.55 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.95 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -55.60% +148.01% +2.06%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle RAC.

Daily rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle RAC.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +33 14 £350 -33.33% 3
Work from Home +99 10 £550 +9.13% 2
Scotland +40 9 £344 -27.63%
England +57 3 £485 -7.62% 2
Wales +16 3 £538 -
Midlands +25 1 - - 2
North of England +24 1 £485 -7.62%
Yorkshire - 1 £485 -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Oracle RAC
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
1 6 (31.58%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) PaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) Oracle Database
2 6 (31.58%) PowerCenter
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (21.05%) Metadata
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.26%) MySQL
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) DBA
2 14 (73.68%) Oracle DBA
3 7 (36.84%) Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior DBA
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Qlik Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Middleware
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Unix
3 6 (31.58%) AIX
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (52.63%) High Availability
3 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Database Security
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) E-business
4 6 (31.58%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Data Transformation
5 4 (21.05%) Database Tuning
5 4 (21.05%) Security Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Prototyping
7 1 (5.26%) API Integration
7 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
7 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) OCP
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) IFRS
2 1 (5.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Data Guard
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) EMC
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk