Hybrid/Remote Oracle RAC Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 314 382
Rank change year-on-year +6 +68 +130
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 7 6 15
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.069% 0.050% 0.082%
As % of the System Software category 0.57% 0.47% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £431 - £406
25th Percentile £440 £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £575
90th Percentile £555 - £610
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%

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 1,230 1,279 2,199
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.12% 10.60% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 852 1,529
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -6.44%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £651 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 77
10th Percentile £29.10 £18.75 £18.65
25th Percentile £33.00 £38.00 £24.73
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67.19 £75.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £89.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £38.00 £47.01
% change year-on-year -27.63% -19.16% +95.85%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle RAC and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Oracle RAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Oracle RAC daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Oracle RAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DBA
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) OCA
1 2 (28.57%) OCP
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Data Guard
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (14.29%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft