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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 547 508
Rank change year-on-year +37 -39 -21
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 125 110 254
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 1.39% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 81 41 184
10th Percentile £36,500 £42,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,750 £57,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% -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 6,101 7,892 12,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 18.50% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,866 4,632 10,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £49,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £76,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +45 47 £50,000 -17.36% 12
South East +23 42 £58,000 +5.45% 13
South West -10 10 £60,000 -14.02% 4
Midlands -31 9 £52,500 -12.50% 4
East of England - 9 - - 3
North of England -46 8 £53,000 -3.64% 10
North West -16 7 £53,000 -7.83% 1
East Midlands -28 7 £52,500 -9.48% 1
West Midlands -15 2 £38,000 -36.67% 3
Yorkshire -33 1 - - 8
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 23 (18.40%) Exchange Server 2003
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (15.20%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (14.40%) Apache
3 18 (14.40%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.80%) Mule
5 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.20%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.40%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.40%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (1.60%) Confluence
7 2 (1.60%) IIS
7 2 (1.60%) JBoss
7 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (7.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.40%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.40%) Primavera
3 2 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
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 30 (24.00%) AWS
2 19 (15.20%) Amazon S3
2 19 (15.20%) OpenShift
3 14 (11.20%) Azure
4 6 (4.80%) SaaS
5 5 (4.00%) OCI
6 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.60%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.60%) PaaS
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.80%) dbt
8 1 (0.80%) GCP
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.80%) Serverless
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) DHCP
1 22 (17.60%) DNS
2 2 (1.60%) Extranet
2 2 (1.60%) Intranet
3 1 (0.80%) Firewall
3 1 (0.80%) SMTP
3 1 (0.80%) X.400
3 1 (0.80%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 26 (20.80%) SQL Server
3 18 (14.40%) Apache Hive
3 18 (14.40%) Impala
3 18 (14.40%) Parquet
3 18 (14.40%) Spark SQL
3 18 (14.40%) Tableau
4 15 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 12 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (8.80%) Metadata
7 9 (7.20%) Oracle Database 12c
8 8 (6.40%) Oracle Database 11g
8 8 (6.40%) Oracle Exadata
9 6 (4.80%) MySQL
10 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.40%) Oracle Discoverer
12 3 (2.40%) Power BI
12 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (18.40%) Git
2 18 (14.40%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (4.80%) JIRA
4 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.20%) Selenium
6 2 (1.60%) GitLab
6 2 (1.60%) JMeter
6 2 (1.60%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.60%) Ranorex
6 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.60%) Subversion
6 2 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.60%) TestRail
7 1 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.80%) JUnit
General
1 41 (32.80%) Finance
2 28 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (21.60%) Banking
4 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
5 17 (13.60%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.20%) Legal
7 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
9 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.80%) German Language
Job Titles
1 23 (18.40%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (18.40%) Analyst
1 23 (18.40%) Systems Support
2 16 (12.80%) Transformation Analyst
3 15 (12.00%) Banking Analyst
4 14 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) DBA
6 11 (8.80%) Architect
7 10 (8.00%) Administrator
7 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
7 10 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (7.20%) Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (6.40%) Data Business Analyst
9 8 (6.40%) Oracle Architect
10 7 (5.60%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 7 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Database Architect
11 6 (4.80%) IT Support
11 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.40%) PySpark
2 10 (8.00%) Kafka
3 9 (7.20%) Pandas
4 8 (6.40%) REST
5 5 (4.00%) Middleware
6 4 (3.20%) SOAP
6 4 (3.20%) Web Services
7 3 (2.40%) HTML
7 3 (2.40%) ModSecurity
7 3 (2.40%) Oracle ADF
7 3 (2.40%) Swagger
7 3 (2.40%) WebCenter
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.60%) Playwright
8 2 (1.60%) XML
8 2 (1.60%) XSL
9 1 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.80%) JSON
9 1 (0.80%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Replication
2 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.60%) Clustering
4 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.80%) NHS
5 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 38 (30.40%) Windows
2 37 (29.60%) 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%) Linux
4 23 (18.40%) Windows 7
5 7 (5.60%) AIX
5 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.40%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) ETL
2 34 (27.20%) Data Pipeline
3 33 (26.40%) Analytics
4 32 (25.60%) Agile
5 30 (24.00%) Data Governance
6 26 (20.80%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (20.00%) Incident Management
8 23 (18.40%) CI/CD
8 23 (18.40%) Data Engineering
9 22 (17.60%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (16.00%) AI
10 20 (16.00%) Data Transformation
11 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (14.40%) Scrum
13 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (12.00%) High Availability
15 13 (10.40%) Data Architecture
15 13 (10.40%) Runbook
16 12 (9.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (44.80%) SQL
2 31 (24.80%) Python
3 30 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 24 (19.20%) Perl
5 17 (13.60%) Java
6 16 (12.80%) PL/SQL
7 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.80%) Bash
9 5 (4.00%) Korn
10 4 (3.20%) C#
11 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (20.80%) DV Cleared
4 20 (16.00%) Degree
5 18 (14.40%) Oracle Certification
6 16 (12.80%) OCP
7 10 (8.00%) CISSP
7 10 (8.00%) MCSE
7 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.00%) SLA
2 23 (18.40%) Data Quality
2 23 (18.40%) GDPR
3 9 (7.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (7.20%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.20%) QA
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (21.60%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (6.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.60%) Data Guard
2 10 (8.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (7.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.00%) Nagios
6 4 (3.20%) Ansible
7 3 (2.40%) Netcool
7 3 (2.40%) Puppet
8 2 (1.60%) Grafana
8 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.80%) Ambari
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.80%) Terraform
9 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (100.00%) Oracle
2 44 (35.20%) Microsoft
3 24 (19.20%) VMware
4 21 (16.80%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.60%) IBM
6 6 (4.80%) Delphix
7 4 (3.20%) HP
8 3 (2.40%) IFS
8 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.40%) Snow
8 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.60%) SAP
9 2 (1.60%) Sybase
10 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.80%) Citrix
10 1 (0.80%) Siemens
10 1 (0.80%) Software AG
10 1 (0.80%) Splunk
10 1 (0.80%) webMethods