Oracle DBA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Oracle Database Administrator daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 294 306 428
Rank change year-on-year +12 +122 +120
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 10 39 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 32
10th Percentile £389 £363 £383
25th Percentile £422 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.68% -0.51%
75th Percentile £528 £688 £516
90th Percentile £550 £850 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.50%

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 DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Oracle DBA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Oracle DBA
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 DBA.

Oracle DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Oracle DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle DBA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle DBA.

Oracle DBA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle Database
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Database Security
5 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) Unix
6 2 (20.00%) Solaris
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (10.00%) Commvault
7 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (10.00%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (10.00%) JCL

Oracle DBA 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) iTrent
1 1 (10.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) French Language
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Licensing
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Database Security
2 3 (30.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) OCP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Commvault
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) VMware