Oracle RAC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Oracle RAC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle RAC over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 334 429
Rank change year-on-year +25 +95 +127
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 8 12 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.082% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.69% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 22
10th Percentile - £425 £411
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +9.13% +0.80%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £538
90th Percentile £581 £650 £549
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £504
% change year-on-year +12.82% -3.27% -4.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,157 1,448 2,965
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.38% 9.93% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 1,059 2,078
10th Percentile £330 £285 £295
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £699 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 119
10th Percentile £28.58 £14.38 £17.72
25th Percentile £53.63 £15.50 £37.30
Median hourly rate £66.00 £29.28 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -53.53% +121.75%
75th Percentile £92.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%

Oracle RAC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle RAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Oracle RAC
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 RAC.

Oracle RAC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle RAC
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DBA
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (62.50%) Database Tuning
2 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (37.50%) ERP
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Database Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft