Oracle Database Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Database Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Oracle Database Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +148
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Database Engineer 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £396 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile £500 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £588 £563
% change year-on-year -31.91% +4.44% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Oracle Database Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Oracle Database Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Database Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Oracle Database Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Database Engineer.

Oracle Database Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Database Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Oracle Database Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Oracle Database Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Oracle Database Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Oracle Database Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Database
3 5 (62.50%) Ansible
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Database Security
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Database Tuning
6 2 (25.00%) vSphere
6 2 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (25.00%) GitLab
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Change Management
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) Windows
7 1 (12.50%) AIX
7 1 (12.50%) Solaris

Oracle Database Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Database Security
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase