Oracle Database Job Trends in England

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 537 422
Rank change year-on-year -22 -115 +120
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 91 219 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.32% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.41% 2.06% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 61 72 246
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,621 £37,828
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,656 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,563 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +8.30% -2.65%
75th Percentile £79,000 £74,063 £74,688
90th Percentile £81,250 £86,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,434 10,626 11,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.91% 15.46% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,183 6,506 9,130
10th Percentile £33,800 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £81,688 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the England region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
London +50 36 £67,500 -6.90% 39
East of England +15 18 £57,500 - 1
North of England +13 12 £67,500 +48.53% 9
South East -6 11 £49,250 -17.92% 21
North West -3 9 £55,000 +22.22% 8
South West +54 6 £65,000 - 4
Midlands +27 6 £48,094 +0.20% 7
West Midlands +27 5 £42,500 -15.72%
Yorkshire +10 3 £80,000 +63.36% 1
East Midlands +29 1 £70,000 +45.83% 7
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.49%) SAS
2 4 (4.40%) Mule
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.30%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.30%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.20%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) JBoss
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Azure
2 21 (23.08%) AWS
3 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.79%) SaaS
4 6 (6.59%) Boomi
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.40%) OCI
6 4 (4.40%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.30%) dbt
7 3 (3.30%) Serverless
7 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) SMTP
1 3 (3.30%) X.400
1 3 (3.30%) X.500
2 1 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.98%) SQL Server
2 18 (19.78%) Relational Database
3 17 (18.68%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (12.09%) RDBMS
6 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (6.59%) Metadata
7 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (6.59%) Power BI
8 5 (5.49%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle Database 12c
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.20%) Redis
12 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (5.49%) JUnit
3 5 (5.49%) Maven
4 4 (4.40%) REST Assured
4 4 (4.40%) Subversion
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.20%) JMeter
5 2 (2.20%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.20%) Mockito
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.20%) Postman
5 2 (2.20%) Selenium
5 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.20%) TestRail
5 2 (2.20%) Xcode
5 2 (2.20%) XCTest
General
1 34 (37.36%) Finance
2 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.79%) Law
6 6 (6.59%) Legal
7 4 (4.40%) Back Office
7 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Police
9 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Electronics
10 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.10%) Marketing
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Analyst
3 10 (10.99%) Consultant
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
4 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) ERP Analyst
5 7 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) DBA
6 6 (6.59%) IFS Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (5.49%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.49%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) ERP Support
7 5 (5.49%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) Kafka
2 10 (10.99%) REST
3 9 (9.89%) Spring
4 7 (7.69%) .NET
4 7 (7.69%) JMS
4 7 (7.69%) Middleware
4 7 (7.69%) RESTful
5 5 (5.49%) Hibernate
5 5 (5.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (5.49%) Web Services
6 4 (4.40%) React
6 4 (4.40%) Swagger
7 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.30%) CSS
7 3 (3.30%) HTML
7 3 (3.30%) Java EE
7 3 (3.30%) SOAP
8 2 (2.20%) J2EE
8 2 (2.20%) JPA
8 2 (2.20%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.59%) Replication
4 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.40%) Derivative
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.10%) Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.58%) Linux
2 13 (14.29%) Unix
3 9 (9.89%) Windows
4 4 (4.40%) AIX
4 4 (4.40%) Solaris
5 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.20%) HPUX
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (21.98%) ETL
3 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (17.58%) Agile
5 15 (16.48%) ERP
6 14 (15.38%) Analytics
7 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 12 (13.19%) Data Analysis
8 12 (13.19%) Migration
9 11 (12.09%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.99%) Data Engineering
10 10 (10.99%) Data Migration
10 10 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (10.99%) Data Security
10 10 (10.99%) ITIL
10 10 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (10.99%) SDLC
11 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.89%) Microservices
12 8 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.24%) SQL
2 22 (24.18%) PL/SQL
3 21 (23.08%) Java
4 16 (17.58%) Python
5 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.40%) C#
7 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) Groovy
8 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Degree
2 15 (16.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
4 13 (14.29%) OCP
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (6.59%) CISSP
6 6 (6.59%) MCSE
6 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.10%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.49%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) SEPA
5 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Data Guard
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (3.30%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) Netcool
4 2 (2.20%) Nagios
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Puppet
5 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Oracle
2 26 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.89%) IFS
4 6 (6.59%) Dell
5 5 (5.49%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (4.40%) Delphix
6 4 (4.40%) IBM
7 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.30%) Snow
7 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.30%) StreamSets
7 3 (3.30%) Sybase
7 3 (3.30%) VMware
8 2 (2.20%) ATG
8 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.20%) Splunk
9 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.10%) SAP
9 1 (1.10%) Software AG
9 1 (1.10%) webMethods