Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator salary in the UK is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 850 1047
Rank change year-on-year +37 +197 -227
Permanent jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 89 122 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44 80 116
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,875 £47,063 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA.

Salary trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -1 75 £52,500 +0.96% 13
England +53 68 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home +53 36 £57,500 +4.55%
Midlands +8 26 £56,250 +7.14% 3
East Midlands +3 20 £56,250 +2.27% 1
North of England +52 18 £52,500 +31.25% 1
London +92 11 £85,000 +17.24% 1
North East -4 9 £52,500 +31.25%
Wales - 9 £48,000 - 1
North West +19 8 - - 1
Scotland - 8 £53,750 - 3
West Midlands +11 6 - - 2
East of England -1 5 £48,750 -11.36% 3
South East -2 5 £67,000 +48.89% 1
South West -36 3 £43,500 -15.53%
Yorkshire +83 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Oracle DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) Oracle
2 67 (75.28%) Oracle Database
3 48 (53.93%) Performance Tuning
3 48 (53.93%) Oracle Certification
4 42 (47.19%) SQL
4 42 (47.19%) Unix
5 41 (46.07%) Security Cleared
6 39 (43.82%) SQL Server
7 38 (42.70%) Problem Management
8 37 (41.57%) Linux
9 36 (40.45%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
11 32 (35.96%) MySQL
12 30 (33.71%) Degree
13 28 (31.46%) OCP
14 27 (30.34%) Database Security
15 26 (29.21%) PL/SQL
15 26 (29.21%) Windows
16 25 (28.09%) Capacity Planning
17 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (24.72%) Customer Service
18 22 (24.72%) PostgreSQL
19 21 (23.60%) Finance
19 21 (23.60%) ITIL
19 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
19 21 (23.60%) Relational Database
20 20 (22.47%) Incident Management
20 20 (22.47%) Incident Response
20 20 (22.47%) Accessibility
20 20 (22.47%) Oracle Database 12c

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (8.99%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.25%) WildFly
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (21.35%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.12%) Maximo
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.35%) OCI
2 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 11 (12.36%) Azure
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Firewall
1 1 (1.12%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (75.28%) Oracle Database
2 39 (43.82%) SQL Server
3 32 (35.96%) MySQL
4 22 (24.72%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (23.60%) Relational Database
6 20 (22.47%) Oracle Database 12c
7 16 (17.98%) RDBMS
8 10 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.49%) SAP HANA
10 3 (3.37%) DB2
10 3 (3.37%) MariaDB
10 3 (3.37%) Metadata
10 3 (3.37%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.25%) OLTP
11 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (1.12%) OrientDB
12 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 36 (40.45%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Finance
4 19 (21.35%) Back Office
4 19 (21.35%) Local Government
4 19 (21.35%) Police
4 19 (21.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.37%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.12%) J2EE
1 1 (1.12%) Middleware
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Driving Licence
1 19 (21.35%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.37%) Replication
3 2 (2.25%) Clustering
3 2 (2.25%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (47.19%) Unix
2 37 (41.57%) Linux
3 26 (29.21%) Windows
4 4 (4.49%) AIX
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) Performance Tuning
2 38 (42.70%) Problem Management
3 27 (30.34%) Database Security
4 25 (28.09%) Capacity Planning
5 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.72%) Customer Service
7 21 (23.60%) ITIL
8 20 (22.47%) Incident Management
8 20 (22.47%) Incident Response
9 19 (21.35%) Change Management
10 18 (20.22%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (20.22%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (20.22%) Service Delivery
11 16 (17.98%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (13.48%) Analytical Thinking
12 12 (13.48%) Computer Science
13 7 (7.87%) CI/CD
13 7 (7.87%) DevOps
14 6 (6.74%) Patch Management
14 6 (6.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.19%) SQL
2 26 (29.21%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.12%) Bash
5 1 (1.12%) C++
5 1 (1.12%) Perl
5 1 (1.12%) ProC
5 1 (1.12%) Python
5 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (53.93%) Oracle Certification
2 41 (46.07%) Security Cleared
3 30 (33.71%) Degree
4 28 (31.46%) OCP
5 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
6 12 (13.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (8.99%) OCA
8 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
8 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (16.85%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle Statspack
5 1 (1.12%) Ansible
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (21.35%) NEC
3 16 (17.98%) VMware
4 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.49%) SAP
6 2 (2.25%) Civica
7 1 (1.12%) BT
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) Dell
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) HP
7 1 (1.12%) Qualys
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow