Senior Oracle DBA Contracts

Senior Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Senior Oracle Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 711 849
Rank change year-on-year +133 +138 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Oracle DBA 8 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.008% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - - £457
25th Percentile £363 £500 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -7.81% +19.89%
75th Percentile £688 £581 £583
90th Percentile £693 £638 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £650 £570
% change year-on-year -42.31% +14.14% +22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Oracle DBA in the UK

Senior Oracle DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Oracle DBA in the UK

Senior Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Oracle DBA in the UK

Senior Oracle DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Oracle DBA in the UK

Senior Oracle DBA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Oracle DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England +116 6 £525 - 6
Work from Home - 6 £525 - 3
London +107 3 £675 +35.00%
UK excluding London +71 2 £375 -42.31% 6
Scotland - 1 - -
North West - 1 £375 - 2
North of England - 1 £375 - 2

Senior Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior Oracle DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Unix
5 1 (12.50%) Database Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland

Senior Oracle DBA Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Database Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle