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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 310 376
Rank change year-on-year +1 +66 +138
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 9 6 15
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.088% 0.049% 0.084%
As % of the System Software category 0.72% 0.46% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £422 £513 £406
25th Percentile £433 £523 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% +5.95% -
75th Percentile £472 £598 £573
90th Percentile £529 £614 £610
UK median daily rate £510 £519 £513
% change year-on-year -1.69% +1.22% -6.82%

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 1,254 1,310 2,056
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.31% 10.80% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 876 1,433
10th Percentile £313 £316 £278
25th Percentile £413 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +4.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £596 £613 £615
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 73
10th Percentile £29.60 £20.44 £17.75
25th Percentile £38.38 £36.31 £22.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.75 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £30.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year +9.46% -30.35% +73.44%

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 7 December 2025.

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 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) OCI
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) DBA
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) ERP
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) SOA
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) API Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) OCA
1 2 (22.22%) OCP
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Data Guard
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft