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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 574 569
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -82
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 109 67 292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.51% 1.01% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 138
10th Percentile £40,950 £46,250 £38,389
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,420 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% +4.35% +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 7,233 6,601 15,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.78% 16.79% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,803 4,382 11,523
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +17 58 £67,500 -6.90% 16
South East -15 18 £41,000 -21.90% 11
South West -52 16 £57,500 +4.55% 4
East of England -17 9 £60,000 - 2
North of England -38 6 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North West +13 3 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Yorkshire -42 3 - - 2
East Midlands -34 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Midlands -35 2 £55,000 -6.38% 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 (22.94%) Apache
1 25 (22.94%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (22.94%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.92%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.34%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.19%) AWS
2 25 (22.94%) Amazon S3
2 25 (22.94%) OpenShift
3 16 (14.68%) Azure
4 5 (4.59%) OCI
5 2 (1.83%) SaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.92%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.92%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.92%) GCP
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) FTP
2 1 (0.92%) LAN
2 1 (0.92%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.92%) VoIP
2 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.44%) SQL Server
2 25 (22.94%) Apache Hive
2 25 (22.94%) Impala
2 25 (22.94%) Parquet
2 25 (22.94%) Spark SQL
2 25 (22.94%) Tableau
3 17 (15.60%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.42%) MySQL
5 7 (6.42%) Oracle Database 12c
5 7 (6.42%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (5.50%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (3.67%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.83%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (1.83%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.92%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (31.19%) Git
2 25 (22.94%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (4.59%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Ranorex
5 4 (3.67%) Selenium
5 4 (3.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.92%) GitLab
7 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.92%) Postman
7 1 (0.92%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.92%) TestRail
7 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 38 (34.86%) Banking
3 32 (29.36%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
5 24 (22.02%) Investment Banking
6 12 (11.01%) Legal
7 8 (7.34%) Retail
8 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.83%) German Language
10 2 (1.83%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Advertising
11 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 31 (28.44%) DBA
2 27 (24.77%) Analyst
3 26 (23.85%) Oracle DBA
4 23 (21.10%) Transformation Analyst
5 22 (20.18%) Banking Analyst
6 13 (11.93%) Business Analyst
6 13 (11.93%) Senior
6 13 (11.93%) Technical Analyst
7 12 (11.01%) Data Business Analyst
7 12 (11.01%) Data Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 11 (10.09%) Lead
9 10 (9.17%) Developer
9 10 (9.17%) Senior DBA
10 8 (7.34%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 8 (7.34%) Test Leader
11 7 (6.42%) MySQL DBA
12 6 (5.50%) Administrator
12 6 (5.50%) Database Engineer
13 4 (3.67%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) PySpark
2 13 (11.93%) Pandas
3 8 (7.34%) REST
4 4 (3.67%) SOAP
4 4 (3.67%) Web Services
4 4 (3.67%) XML
4 4 (3.67%) XSL
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.83%) Middleware
6 2 (1.83%) React
7 1 (0.92%) .NET
7 1 (0.92%) BAPI
7 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.92%) HTML
7 1 (0.92%) Jest
7 1 (0.92%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.92%) SAP XI
7 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.59%) Replication
4 4 (3.67%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.51%) Linux
2 16 (14.68%) Unix
3 15 (13.76%) Windows
4 11 (10.09%) AIX
4 11 (10.09%) Windows Server
5 9 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (7.34%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (6.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (6.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (6.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.95%) Agile
2 42 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 40 (36.70%) ETL
4 37 (33.94%) Analytics
4 37 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (29.36%) User Acceptance Testing
6 29 (26.61%) Scrum
6 29 (26.61%) Translating Business Requirements
7 27 (24.77%) Data Governance
7 27 (24.77%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (22.94%) AI
8 25 (22.94%) Data Transformation
9 24 (22.02%) Data Engineering
10 22 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (19.27%) Runbook
12 18 (16.51%) ITIL
13 17 (15.60%) Validation
14 16 (14.68%) Data Validation
14 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (53.21%) SQL
2 29 (26.61%) Python
3 22 (20.18%) PL/SQL
4 13 (11.93%) Shell Script
5 11 (10.09%) Bash
5 11 (10.09%) Korn
6 8 (7.34%) Clojure
6 8 (7.34%) Java
7 5 (4.59%) C#
8 2 (1.83%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) ABAP
9 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.93%) ISTQB
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Degree
5 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.83%) OCP
8 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (34.86%) Data Quality
2 26 (23.85%) GDPR
3 12 (11.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (11.01%) HIPAA
4 7 (6.42%) QA
5 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (13.76%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Data Guard
2 15 (13.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (9.17%) Ansible
4 8 (7.34%) Nagios
5 7 (6.42%) Progress Chef
5 7 (6.42%) Puppet
6 5 (4.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.92%) Kibana
8 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 109 (100.00%) Oracle
2 26 (23.85%) Red Hat
3 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.17%) IBM
5 8 (7.34%) IFS
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Sybase
7 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) Citrix
7 1 (0.92%) Globalscape
7 1 (0.92%) Infor
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Siemens
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk