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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 326 384
Rank change year-on-year +30 +58 +131
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 11 11 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% 0.83% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile £434 - £406
25th Percentile £448 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +9.13% -1.18%
75th Percentile £534 £625 £538
90th Percentile £584 £670 £556
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -6.98%

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 1,099 1,319 2,433
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.17% 10.35% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 932 1,673
10th Percentile £313 £282 £286
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.23%
75th Percentile £583 £610 £638
90th Percentile £638 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 101
10th Percentile £29.40 £20.68 £19.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £50.31 £39.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £70.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +11.11% +26.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £85.59 £71.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £91.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

Oracle RAC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle RAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Oracle RAC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Oracle RAC over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Oracle RAC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle RAC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) OCI
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) French Language
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) DBA
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (54.55%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Database Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) API Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) Database Migration
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PL/SQL
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) OCA
1 2 (18.18%) OCP
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (54.55%) Data Guard
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft