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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 560 530
Rank change year-on-year -84 -30 -98
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 97 81 225
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.100% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 1.27% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 83 60 70
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £43,589
25th Percentile - £45,938 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £79,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £86,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.75% +2.83%

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 7,932 6,403 10,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.14% 14.91% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,547 4,179 6,963
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -5.87% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -44 37 £72,500 +9.43% 58
North of England -45 23 £55,000 -21.43% 20
North West -2 22 £55,000 -4.35% 15
South West -61 17 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South East -44 10 £33,500 -34.95% 17
East Midlands -29 6 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Midlands -37 6 £55,000 +14.36% 9
East of England -38 3 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Yorkshire -45 1 - - 3
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 5 (5.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.03%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.43%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) AWS
3 6 (6.19%) OCI
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle CX
4 3 (3.09%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.03%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.03%) dbt
6 1 (1.03%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.03%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) LAN
1 2 (2.06%) VoIP
1 2 (2.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.37%) Relational Database
3 10 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.19%) MySQL
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.03%) Impala
7 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (1.03%) Redis
7 1 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.03%) Tableau
7 1 (1.03%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (4.12%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.06%) Ranorex
5 2 (2.06%) Selenium
5 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.03%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.03%) TestRail
6 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (39.18%) Finance
2 37 (38.14%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.06%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.03%) German Language
9 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (52.58%) DBA
2 44 (45.36%) Oracle DBA
3 18 (18.56%) Administrator
4 15 (15.46%) Senior
5 12 (12.37%) Senior DBA
6 11 (11.34%) Lead
7 10 (10.31%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 8 (8.25%) Data Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Test Leader
9 6 (6.19%) MySQL DBA
9 6 (6.19%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.12%) Database Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Applications Specialist
11 3 (3.09%) Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.15%) REST
3 3 (3.09%) Middleware
4 2 (2.06%) PySpark
4 2 (2.06%) SOAP
4 2 (2.06%) Terraform
4 2 (2.06%) Web Services
4 2 (2.06%) XML
4 2 (2.06%) XSL
5 1 (1.03%) .NET
5 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.03%) BAPI
5 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.03%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.03%) JMS
5 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.03%) React
5 1 (1.03%) SAP XI
5 1 (1.03%) Spring
5 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.65%) Linux
2 17 (17.53%) Unix
3 12 (12.37%) AIX
3 12 (12.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (12.37%) Windows
4 10 (10.31%) Oracle Linux
5 9 (9.28%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 22 (22.68%) Agile
3 20 (20.62%) ITIL
4 18 (18.56%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (17.53%) CI/CD
6 14 (14.43%) ERP
6 14 (14.43%) High Availability
7 13 (13.40%) Data Modelling
7 13 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (13.40%) ETL
7 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.34%) Translating Business Requirements
9 10 (10.31%) Analytics
9 10 (10.31%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (10.31%) Change Management
9 10 (10.31%) Configuration Management
9 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.31%) Logistics
9 10 (10.31%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.02%) SQL
2 23 (23.71%) PL/SQL
3 14 (14.43%) Shell Script
4 12 (12.37%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) Korn
5 8 (8.25%) Clojure
6 5 (5.15%) Java
6 5 (5.15%) Python
7 3 (3.09%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) ABAP
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) ISTQB
2 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.03%) OCP
7 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) SLA
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (16.49%) Data Guard
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
3 10 (10.31%) Nagios
4 6 (6.19%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.19%) Puppet
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
7 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.37%) IBM
4 8 (8.25%) IFS
5 3 (3.09%) Infor
6 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) Globalscape
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow