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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 533 423
Rank change year-on-year +55 -110 +87
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 134 177 272
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.29% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.19% 1.83% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 98 63 202
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,125 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £71,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £83,630
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 6,116 9,669 10,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.96% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,146 5,507 7,896
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,782 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,395
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +55 44 £50,000 -29.33% 40
South East +34 39 £58,000 -0.11% 13
East of England - 16 £55,000 - 1
South West +26 12 £60,000 - 6
Midlands +48 11 £47,500 +6.91% 9
North of England +9 11 £75,000 +65.03% 6
East Midlands +27 7 £52,500 +9.38% 3
North West +23 7 £50,750 +12.78% 1
West Midlands +25 4 £42,500 -1.16% 6
Yorkshire +6 4 £80,000 +63.36% 5
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 26 (19.40%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (19.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.48%) Mule
3 5 (3.73%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.24%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.24%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.75%) IIS
7 1 (0.75%) JBoss
7 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.24%) Primavera
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.66%) AWS
1 25 (18.66%) Azure
2 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.22%) SaaS
4 6 (4.48%) Boomi
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.48%) OCI
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.49%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.49%) Contentstack
6 2 (1.49%) dbt
6 2 (1.49%) PaaS
6 2 (1.49%) Serverless
6 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.75%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.75%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.42%) DHCP
1 22 (16.42%) DNS
2 4 (2.99%) SMTP
2 4 (2.99%) X.400
2 4 (2.99%) X.500
3 2 (1.49%) Extranet
3 2 (1.49%) Intranet
4 1 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.63%) Oracle Database 10g
2 25 (18.66%) SQL Server
3 20 (14.93%) Relational Database
4 18 (13.43%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (9.70%) Metadata
6 10 (7.46%) Oracle Database 12c
6 10 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle Database 11g
8 8 (5.97%) Oracle Exadata
8 8 (5.97%) Power BI
8 8 (5.97%) RDBMS
9 7 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (5.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.73%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.24%) MySQL
11 3 (2.24%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Git
2 7 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.48%) JIRA
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.99%) JUnit
5 4 (2.99%) Maven
6 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (2.24%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.24%) Subversion
7 2 (1.49%) JMeter
7 2 (1.49%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.49%) Selenium
7 2 (1.49%) TestRail
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.75%) Mockito
8 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Finance
3 25 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.19%) Banking
5 8 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.22%) Law
7 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.49%) Advertising
8 2 (1.49%) Electronics
8 2 (1.49%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 23 (17.16%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (17.16%) Systems Support
2 17 (12.69%) Developer
3 15 (11.19%) Analyst
4 14 (10.45%) Architect
4 14 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) DBA
6 10 (7.46%) Administrator
6 10 (7.46%) Oracle Architect
6 10 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (5.97%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.97%) Database Architect
9 7 (5.22%) ERP Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) IFS Consultant
10 6 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.45%) Kafka
2 11 (8.21%) REST
3 8 (5.97%) Spring
4 7 (5.22%) .NET
4 7 (5.22%) JMS
4 7 (5.22%) Middleware
4 7 (5.22%) RESTful
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (3.73%) HTML
6 5 (3.73%) Web Services
7 4 (2.99%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle ADF
7 4 (2.99%) React
7 4 (2.99%) SOAP
8 3 (2.24%) Java EE
8 3 (2.24%) ModSecurity
8 3 (2.24%) Swagger
8 3 (2.24%) WebCenter
9 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Replication
2 8 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Clustering
4 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (28.36%) Unix
2 37 (27.61%) Windows
3 27 (20.15%) Solaris
3 27 (20.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (19.40%) HPUX
5 23 (17.16%) Windows 7
6 22 (16.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 19 (14.18%) Linux
8 4 (2.99%) AIX
9 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (19.40%) Incident Management
3 19 (14.18%) Analytics
3 19 (14.18%) ETL
4 18 (13.43%) Agile
5 17 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (12.69%) Migration
5 17 (12.69%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (11.94%) ERP
7 15 (11.19%) Data Engineering
8 14 (10.45%) Data Analysis
8 14 (10.45%) Data Modelling
8 14 (10.45%) High Availability
9 13 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (9.70%) Data Architecture
9 13 (9.70%) Data Governance
9 13 (9.70%) Data Security
9 13 (9.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.81%) SQL
2 29 (21.64%) PowerShell
3 25 (18.66%) Java
4 23 (17.16%) Perl
5 22 (16.42%) PL/SQL
6 16 (11.94%) Python
7 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.49%) Bash
9 2 (1.49%) C#
10 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (27.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (22.39%) DV Cleared
4 29 (21.64%) Degree
5 22 (16.42%) OCP
5 22 (16.42%) Oracle Certification
6 14 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (8.96%) CISSP
7 12 (8.96%) MCSE
7 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.75%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.91%) SLA
2 13 (9.70%) GDPR
3 6 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.49%) SEPA
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 29 (21.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.46%) Docker
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 10 (7.46%) Data Guard
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (5.97%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.24%) Ansible
5 3 (2.24%) Nagios
5 3 (2.24%) Netcool
6 2 (1.49%) Grafana
6 2 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) Ambari
7 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.75%) Terraform
7 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (44.78%) Microsoft
3 26 (19.40%) VMware
4 12 (8.96%) IFS
5 8 (5.97%) Delphix
6 6 (4.48%) Dell
7 4 (2.99%) HP
7 4 (2.99%) IBM
8 3 (2.24%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.24%) Snow
8 3 (2.24%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.24%) Sybase
9 2 (1.49%) SAP
9 2 (1.49%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.75%) ATG
10 1 (0.75%) Citrix
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.75%) Software AG
10 1 (0.75%) webMethods