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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 580 564
Rank change year-on-year -21 -16 -96
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 115 67 283
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.16% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.47% 0.98% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 72 45 123
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,800 £36,626
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,563 £79,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% +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 7,834 6,816 14,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.02% 15.77% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,325 4,534 10,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +25 64 £70,000 -3.45% 17
South East -31 16 £41,000 -21.90% 6
South West -46 16 £57,500 -11.54% 2
East of England -13 10 £60,000 -21.05%
North of England -45 7 £55,000 -21.43% 8
North West -4 4 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Yorkshire -36 3 - - 1
East Midlands -21 2 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Midlands -39 2 £55,000 +2.44% 6
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 (21.74%) Apache
1 25 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (21.74%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.74%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.87%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (11.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (9.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.43%) AWS
2 26 (22.61%) Amazon S3
3 25 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 17 (14.78%) Azure
5 5 (4.35%) OCI
6 3 (2.61%) SaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.87%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.87%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.87%) dbt
8 1 (0.87%) GCP
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.87%) PaaS
8 1 (0.87%) Serverless
8 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.87%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
2 2 (1.74%) LAN
2 2 (1.74%) VoIP
2 2 (1.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.87%) FTP
3 1 (0.87%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 25 (21.74%) Apache Hive
2 25 (21.74%) Impala
2 25 (21.74%) Parquet
2 25 (21.74%) Spark SQL
2 25 (21.74%) Tableau
3 17 (14.78%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.96%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (6.09%) MySQL
6 7 (6.09%) Oracle Database 11g
6 7 (6.09%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.74%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (1.74%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 33 (28.70%) Git
2 25 (21.74%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (3.48%) JIRA
4 4 (3.48%) Selenium
5 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.74%) Ranorex
6 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.87%) GitLab
7 1 (0.87%) JUnit
7 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.87%) TestRail
7 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (49.57%) Finance
2 41 (35.65%) Banking
3 36 (31.30%) Social Skills
4 34 (29.57%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (20.87%) Investment Banking
6 12 (10.43%) Legal
7 8 (6.96%) Retail
8 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.74%) German Language
10 2 (1.74%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) DBA
2 31 (26.96%) Oracle DBA
3 28 (24.35%) Analyst
4 23 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
5 22 (19.13%) Banking Analyst
6 16 (13.91%) Senior
7 14 (12.17%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (11.30%) Business Analyst
8 13 (11.30%) Senior DBA
9 12 (10.43%) Data Business Analyst
9 12 (10.43%) Data Engineer
10 11 (9.57%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 11 (9.57%) Lead
10 11 (9.57%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 10 (8.70%) Developer
12 8 (6.96%) Test Leader
13 7 (6.09%) Administrator
13 7 (6.09%) Database Engineer
13 7 (6.09%) MySQL DBA
14 5 (4.35%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.74%) PySpark
2 13 (11.30%) Pandas
3 9 (7.83%) REST
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.48%) SOAP
4 4 (3.48%) Web Services
5 2 (1.74%) Middleware
5 2 (1.74%) React
5 2 (1.74%) XML
5 2 (1.74%) XSL
6 1 (0.87%) BAPI
6 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.87%) Java EE
6 1 (0.87%) Jest
6 1 (0.87%) JSON
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.87%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.87%) Spring
6 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.48%) Replication
5 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.39%) Linux
2 19 (16.52%) Unix
3 14 (12.17%) AIX
4 13 (11.30%) Windows
5 11 (9.57%) Oracle Linux
5 11 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.57%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.61%) Agile
2 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
3 40 (34.78%) ETL
4 38 (33.04%) Analytics
4 38 (33.04%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (27.83%) Performance Tuning
6 30 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (25.22%) Scrum
7 29 (25.22%) Translating Business Requirements
8 28 (24.35%) Data Governance
9 26 (22.61%) AI
10 25 (21.74%) Data Transformation
10 25 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (20.87%) Data Engineering
11 24 (20.87%) Runbook
12 22 (19.13%) ITIL
13 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (14.78%) Validation
15 16 (13.91%) Data Modelling
15 16 (13.91%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) SQL
2 30 (26.09%) Python
3 27 (23.48%) PL/SQL
4 17 (14.78%) Shell Script
5 15 (13.04%) Bash
5 15 (13.04%) Korn
6 9 (7.83%) Java
7 8 (6.96%) Clojure
8 3 (2.61%) C#
9 2 (1.74%) Perl
10 1 (0.87%) ABAP
10 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) ISTQB
2 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.22%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (33.91%) Data Quality
2 26 (22.61%) GDPR
3 12 (10.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (10.43%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.35%) QA
5 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (15.65%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (0.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Data Guard
2 19 (16.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (9.57%) Ansible
3 11 (9.57%) Nagios
4 7 (6.09%) Progress Chef
4 7 (6.09%) Puppet
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 25 (21.74%) Red Hat
3 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
4 13 (11.30%) IBM
5 8 (6.96%) IFS
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.74%) Sybase
7 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) Globalscape
7 1 (0.87%) Infor
7 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk