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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 308 331
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 +102
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 9 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.067% 0.078% 0.082%
As % of the System Software category 0.66% 0.68% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £469 - £425
25th Percentile £492 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -1.00% +9.13%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £600
90th Percentile £577 £581 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -3.27%

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 1,362 1,169 1,465
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.09% 11.42% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 830 1,072
10th Percentile £317 £330 £290
25th Percentile £425 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -1.28% -3.52%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 12 26
10th Percentile £14.15 £25.73 £14.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £46.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £59.37 £66.00 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +125.45% -53.35%
75th Percentile £70.13 £73.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £92.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +77.39% +20.80% -54.67%

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
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 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (22.22%) nginx
2 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Database
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DBA
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) SQL DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Storage Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (11.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (22.22%) Master Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
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