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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 301 357
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +137
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.057% 0.046% 0.060%
As % of the System Software category 0.45% 0.42% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £420 £501 £494
25th Percentile £425 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -4.65% +10.26%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £601
90th Percentile £565 £604 £610
UK median daily rate £569 £544 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% +8.75% -9.09%

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 1,336 1,196 1,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.75% 11.09% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 825 1,233
10th Percentile £315 £325 £275
25th Percentile £419 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £715 £749 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 54
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £38.38 £38.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +14.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £71.90
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.62% -38.95% +35.71%

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 28 January 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 3 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DBA
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle