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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 305 322
Rank change year-on-year -49 +17 +87
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 9 11 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.067% 0.11% 0.087%
As % of the System Software category 0.64% 1.02% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £429 £434 -
25th Percentile £447 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% +9.13%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £625
90th Percentile £563 £584 £670
UK median daily rate £548 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +8.42% -6.05% +7.50%

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 1,402 1,081 1,315
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.47% 11.12% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 715 938
10th Percentile £313 £313 £289
25th Percentile £425 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £610
90th Percentile £675 £649 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 14 14
10th Percentile £15.81 £29.30 £24.28
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.69 £52.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -25.52% +15.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £85.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £92.50 £91.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £31.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +91.17% +29.80% -51.64%

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 3 September 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) GIS
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) DBA
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (44.44%) SQL DBA
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Storage Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) EJB
1 1 (11.11%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (11.11%) Java SE
1 1 (11.11%) JSP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) OpenLayers
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) AIX
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (11.11%) Data Science
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
6 1 (11.11%) Observability
6 1 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
6 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) SRDF
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Data Guard
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Brocade
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Veritas