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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 509 544
Rank change year-on-year -24 +35 -19
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 125 97 252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 1.39% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 84 38 173
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,875 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,125 £70,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.31% -0.43% +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 6,373 6,989 14,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.38% 18.88% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,966 4,679 11,220
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,181 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +38 50 £56,000 -10.76% 22
South East +4 40 £58,000 +7.91% 10
South West -21 11 £60,000 -14.02% 2
East of England -9 9 £60,000 -
Midlands -49 8 £52,500 -12.50% 5
North of England -62 7 £55,000 - 10
East Midlands -37 6 £52,500 -9.48% 1
Yorkshire -48 4 - - 3
North West -35 3 £55,000 -4.35% 7
West Midlands -27 2 £38,000 -36.67% 4
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 25 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 23 (18.40%) Exchange Server 2003
2 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.20%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.40%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.40%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.60%) Confluence
5 2 (1.60%) IIS
5 2 (1.60%) JBoss
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.40%) Primavera
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.40%) AWS
2 26 (20.80%) OpenShift
3 25 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 14 (11.20%) Azure
5 5 (4.00%) OCI
6 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) SaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Contentstack
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) DHCP
1 22 (17.60%) DNS
2 2 (1.60%) Extranet
2 2 (1.60%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) Intranet
3 1 (0.80%) SMTP
3 1 (0.80%) X.400
3 1 (0.80%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.20%) Oracle Database 10g
2 28 (22.40%) SQL Server
3 25 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 25 (20.00%) Impala
3 25 (20.00%) Parquet
3 25 (20.00%) Spark SQL
3 25 (20.00%) Tableau
4 16 (12.80%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (8.00%) Oracle Database 12c
6 10 (8.00%) Oracle Exadata
7 9 (7.20%) Oracle Database 11g
8 6 (4.80%) MySQL
9 5 (4.00%) Metadata
9 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.40%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (2.40%) Power BI
11 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.60%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (1.60%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 31 (24.80%) Git
2 25 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (4.00%) JIRA
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.60%) GitLab
7 2 (1.60%) Ranorex
7 2 (1.60%) Selenium
7 2 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.80%) JUnit
General
1 40 (32.00%) Finance
2 33 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (24.00%) Banking
4 24 (19.20%) Investment Banking
5 23 (18.40%) Social Skills
6 12 (9.60%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Advertising
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
9 2 (1.60%) German Language
9 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (24.00%) Analyst
2 23 (18.40%) 3rd Line Support
2 23 (18.40%) Systems Support
2 23 (18.40%) Transformation Analyst
3 22 (17.60%) Banking Analyst
3 22 (17.60%) DBA
4 16 (12.80%) Oracle DBA
5 14 (11.20%) Business Analyst
5 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) Administrator
6 13 (10.40%) Technical Analyst
7 12 (9.60%) Data Business Analyst
8 11 (8.80%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 9 (7.20%) Developer
10 7 (5.60%) Senior
11 6 (4.80%) IT Support
11 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Database Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Senior DBA
12 5 (4.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.00%) PySpark
2 13 (10.40%) Pandas
3 6 (4.80%) REST
3 6 (4.80%) Web Services
4 4 (3.20%) HTML
4 4 (3.20%) SOAP
5 3 (2.40%) Middleware
5 3 (2.40%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (2.40%) WebCenter
6 2 (1.60%) XML
6 2 (1.60%) XSL
7 1 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.80%) Kafka
7 1 (0.80%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
7 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Replication
2 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.60%) Clustering
4 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.80%) NHS
5 1 (0.80%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.80%) Windows
2 34 (27.20%) Unix
3 24 (19.20%) HPUX
3 24 (19.20%) Solaris
3 24 (19.20%) Windows Server 2003
3 24 (19.20%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (18.40%) Windows 7
5 20 (16.00%) Linux
6 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
7 7 (5.60%) AIX
7 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) Agile
1 40 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
1 40 (32.00%) ETL
2 39 (31.20%) Analytics
3 31 (24.80%) Data Governance
4 30 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 29 (23.20%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (21.60%) Incident Management
6 27 (21.60%) Performance Tuning
7 26 (20.80%) AI
7 26 (20.80%) Data Transformation
7 26 (20.80%) Scrum
8 25 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 22 (17.60%) Translating Business Requirements
10 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (13.60%) Runbook
11 15 (12.00%) Data Analysis
12 14 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (11.20%) High Availability
13 13 (10.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (47.20%) SQL
2 37 (29.60%) Python
3 28 (22.40%) PowerShell
4 25 (20.00%) Perl
5 15 (12.00%) PL/SQL
6 10 (8.00%) Java
7 8 (6.40%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.60%) Bash
9 6 (4.80%) Korn
10 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.60%) C#
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 28 (22.40%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.60%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (8.00%) Degree
6 9 (7.20%) OCP
7 5 (4.00%) CISSP
7 5 (4.00%) MCSE
7 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.20%) Data Quality
2 26 (20.80%) GDPR
3 25 (20.00%) SLA
4 12 (9.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (9.60%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.20%) QA
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (22.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.40%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (4.00%) Docker
4 3 (2.40%) Oracle Clusterware
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (12.80%) Data Guard
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (4.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.00%) Nagios
4 3 (2.40%) Puppet
5 2 (1.60%) Grafana
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.80%) Ambari
6 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (100.00%) Oracle
2 45 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 27 (21.60%) Red Hat
4 24 (19.20%) VMware
5 4 (3.20%) HP
5 4 (3.20%) IBM
6 3 (2.40%) Delphix
6 3 (2.40%) IFS
7 2 (1.60%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.60%) Splunk
7 2 (1.60%) Sybase
8 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.80%) Citrix
8 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.80%) Siemens