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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 522 555
Rank change year-on-year -28 +33 -41
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 117 80 258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 1.19% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 76 42 155
10th Percentile £41,625 £45,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,188 £52,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £79,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% - +4.55%

All Database & 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 6,975 6,746 14,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 18.00% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,286 4,770 11,390
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend 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 22 April 2026.

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 22 April 2026. 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 +39 55 £60,000 -7.69% 16
South East -20 30 £58,000 +10.48% 10
South West -46 14 £57,500 +4.55% 8
East of England -21 8 £60,000 - 1
North of England -69 6 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -63 4 - - 1
Midlands -68 4 £52,500 -11.02% 10
East Midlands -49 3 £52,500 -17.97% 3
North West -39 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands -44 1 £38,000 -33.91% 7
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 25 (21.37%) Apache
1 25 (21.37%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (21.37%) Apache Spark
2 13 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) JBoss
3 2 (1.71%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 13 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.85%) Primavera
3 1 (0.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.62%) AWS
2 26 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 25 (21.37%) Amazon S3
4 17 (14.53%) Azure
5 4 (3.42%) OCI
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.85%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.85%) GCP
6 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.85%) Serverless
6 1 (0.85%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.26%) DHCP
1 12 (10.26%) DNS
2 2 (1.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) SMTP
3 1 (0.85%) X.400
3 1 (0.85%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 25 (21.37%) Apache Hive
2 25 (21.37%) Impala
2 25 (21.37%) Parquet
2 25 (21.37%) Spark SQL
2 25 (21.37%) Tableau
3 19 (16.24%) Relational Database
4 16 (13.68%) Oracle Database 10g
5 9 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
5 9 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.98%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (5.13%) MySQL
7 6 (5.13%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (2.56%) Metadata
8 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.71%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.71%) Sybase IQ
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (28.21%) Git
2 25 (21.37%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (5.13%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (4.27%) JIRA
5 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.56%) Ranorex
5 3 (2.56%) Selenium
5 3 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.85%) TestRail
7 1 (0.85%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (39.32%) Finance
2 37 (31.62%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (28.21%) Banking
4 24 (20.51%) Investment Banking
5 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
6 12 (10.26%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) German Language
8 2 (1.71%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Billing
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (23.08%) Analyst
2 23 (19.66%) Transformation Analyst
3 22 (18.80%) Banking Analyst
3 22 (18.80%) DBA
4 18 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
5 15 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 14 (11.97%) 3rd Line Support
6 14 (11.97%) Business Analyst
7 13 (11.11%) Systems Support
8 12 (10.26%) Data Business Analyst
8 12 (10.26%) Technical Analyst
9 11 (9.40%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 10 (8.55%) Administrator
10 10 (8.55%) Lead
11 8 (6.84%) Developer
12 7 (5.98%) Senior
13 6 (5.13%) Database Engineer
14 5 (4.27%) Senior DBA
14 5 (4.27%) Test Leader
15 4 (3.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.37%) PySpark
2 13 (11.11%) Pandas
3 7 (5.98%) Web Services
4 6 (5.13%) REST
5 4 (3.42%) HTML
6 3 (2.56%) SOAP
6 3 (2.56%) XML
6 3 (2.56%) XSL
7 2 (1.71%) Middleware
7 2 (1.71%) React
8 1 (0.85%) .NET
8 1 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.85%) Java EE
8 1 (0.85%) JPA
8 1 (0.85%) JSON
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle ADF
8 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.85%) RESTful
8 1 (0.85%) Spring
8 1 (0.85%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Replication
2 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.71%) Clustering
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.79%) Windows
2 23 (19.66%) Unix
3 18 (15.38%) Linux
4 15 (12.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (11.97%) HPUX
5 14 (11.97%) Solaris
6 13 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (10.26%) Windows 7
8 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
9 7 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (5.13%) AIX
11 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.61%) Agile
2 42 (35.90%) ETL
3 41 (35.04%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (34.19%) Analytics
5 36 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 30 (25.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (24.79%) Data Governance
7 29 (24.79%) Scrum
7 29 (24.79%) Translating Business Requirements
8 27 (23.08%) Data Engineering
9 25 (21.37%) AI
9 25 (21.37%) Data Transformation
10 24 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
11 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (17.09%) Incident Management
12 17 (14.53%) Runbook
13 15 (12.82%) Data Architecture
13 15 (12.82%) Data Strategy
13 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
13 15 (12.82%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (45.30%) SQL
2 34 (29.06%) Python
3 16 (13.68%) PowerShell
4 15 (12.82%) Perl
5 14 (11.97%) PL/SQL
6 10 (8.55%) Java
7 7 (5.98%) Bash
7 7 (5.98%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.13%) Korn
9 5 (4.27%) Clojure
10 4 (3.42%) C#
11 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.68%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 9 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (6.84%) Degree
6 6 (5.13%) OCP
7 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.56%) CISSP
8 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.56%) MCSE
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (31.62%) Data Quality
2 27 (23.08%) GDPR
3 14 (11.97%) SLA
4 12 (10.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (10.26%) HIPAA
5 6 (5.13%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (13.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.26%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (4.27%) Docker
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle Clusterware
5 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.82%) Data Guard
2 10 (8.55%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (6.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (5.98%) Ansible
5 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.27%) Nagios
6 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.56%) Puppet
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.85%) Grafana
8 1 (0.85%) Kibana
8 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 117 (100.00%) Oracle
2 33 (28.21%) Microsoft
3 27 (23.08%) Red Hat
4 14 (11.97%) VMware
5 6 (5.13%) IFS
6 4 (3.42%) IBM
7 2 (1.71%) Delphix
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.71%) Splunk
7 2 (1.71%) Sybase
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.85%) HP
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Siemens