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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 299 355
Rank change year-on-year -24 +56 +127
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 7 5 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.062% 0.048% 0.043%
As % of the System Software category 0.52% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £448 £503 £400
25th Percentile £469 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% +3.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £589 £610
90th Percentile £578 £611 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £410
% change year-on-year -4.55% +34.15% -21.90%

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 1,334 1,277 1,544
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.76% 12.37% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 921 1,105
10th Percentile £339 £338 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £600
90th Percentile £725 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 14 46
10th Percentile £17.89 £25.25 £15.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £38.81 £15.88
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.50 £34.95
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +87.41% -46.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.45 £75.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year +36.39% -2.38% -21.25%

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 10 March 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 5 (71.43%) WebLogic
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) nginx
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Solaris
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (14.29%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Korn
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) VMware