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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 580 553
Rank change year-on-year -10 -27 -40
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 93 59 288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.31% 0.88% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55 42 148
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,875 £82,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 7,095 6,671 14,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.76% 17.12% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,456 4,549 11,391
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +15 52 £60,000 -22.58% 19
South West -44 13 £57,500 -11.54% 9
South East -15 12 £42,500 -19.05% 19
East of England -8 8 £60,000 -
North of England -39 6 £55,000 - 4
North West -3 3 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Yorkshire -57 3 - -
Midlands -52 2 £38,000 -35.59% 7
East Midlands -25 1 - - 3
West Midlands -44 1 £38,000 -33.91% 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 (26.88%) Apache
1 25 (26.88%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (26.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.15%) JBoss
2 2 (2.15%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.08%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (13.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) AWS
2 26 (27.96%) OpenShift
3 25 (26.88%) Amazon S3
4 15 (16.13%) Azure
5 3 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.08%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.08%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) PaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.08%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (31.18%) SQL Server
2 25 (26.88%) Apache Hive
2 25 (26.88%) Impala
2 25 (26.88%) Parquet
2 25 (26.88%) Spark SQL
2 25 (26.88%) Tableau
3 16 (17.20%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.53%) MySQL
5 7 (7.53%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (4.30%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (3.23%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.15%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (2.15%) Sybase IQ
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.08%) Power BI
10 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (35.48%) Git
2 25 (26.88%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.23%) Ranorex
4 3 (3.23%) Selenium
4 3 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.15%) GitLab
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.08%) Postman
6 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.08%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.08%) TestRail
6 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (51.61%) Finance
2 34 (36.56%) Banking
3 32 (34.41%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (25.81%) Investment Banking
5 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
6 12 (12.90%) Legal
7 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.45%) Retail
8 2 (2.15%) German Language
8 2 (2.15%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.08%) Advertising
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) Analyst
2 23 (24.73%) DBA
2 23 (24.73%) Transformation Analyst
3 22 (23.66%) Banking Analyst
4 21 (22.58%) Oracle DBA
5 13 (13.98%) Business Analyst
6 12 (12.90%) Data Business Analyst
6 12 (12.90%) Data Engineer
6 12 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
7 11 (11.83%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 9 (9.68%) Lead
9 8 (8.60%) Senior
10 7 (7.53%) Developer
11 6 (6.45%) Administrator
11 6 (6.45%) Database Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Senior DBA
11 6 (6.45%) Test Leader
12 5 (5.38%) MySQL DBA
13 4 (4.30%) Java Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.88%) PySpark
2 13 (13.98%) Pandas
3 7 (7.53%) REST
4 4 (4.30%) SOAP
4 4 (4.30%) Web Services
5 3 (3.23%) XML
5 3 (3.23%) XSL
6 2 (2.15%) Middleware
6 2 (2.15%) React
7 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (1.08%) Java EE
7 1 (1.08%) JSON
7 1 (1.08%) Kafka
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.08%) RESTful
7 1 (1.08%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (6.45%) Replication
2 5 (5.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.08%) Clustering
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.08%) NHS
6 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.13%) Linux
2 14 (15.05%) Windows
3 11 (11.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.68%) Unix
5 7 (7.53%) AIX
5 7 (7.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (7.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.30%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Agile
2 40 (43.01%) CI/CD
3 39 (41.94%) ETL
4 38 (40.86%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (39.78%) Analytics
6 29 (31.18%) Scrum
6 29 (31.18%) Translating Business Requirements
6 29 (31.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 27 (29.03%) Data Governance
8 25 (26.88%) AI
8 25 (26.88%) Data Transformation
9 24 (25.81%) Data Engineering
10 20 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (21.51%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (19.35%) Runbook
12 15 (16.13%) Decision-Making
12 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (16.13%) Validation
13 14 (15.05%) Data Modelling
13 14 (15.05%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (54.84%) SQL
2 31 (33.33%) Python
3 15 (16.13%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.60%) Bash
4 8 (8.60%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.53%) Java
5 7 (7.53%) Korn
6 6 (6.45%) Clojure
7 4 (4.30%) C#
8 3 (3.23%) Perl
9 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) ISTQB
2 5 (5.38%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.23%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) OCP
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (40.86%) Data Quality
2 25 (26.88%) GDPR
3 12 (12.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (12.90%) HIPAA
4 6 (6.45%) QA
5 2 (2.15%) SLA
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Clusterware
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) Docker
4 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) Data Guard
2 10 (10.75%) Ansible
3 9 (9.68%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.45%) Puppet
5 5 (5.38%) Nagios
5 5 (5.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (1.08%) Grafana
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (100.00%) Oracle
2 27 (29.03%) Red Hat
3 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.45%) IBM
4 6 (6.45%) IFS
5 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
5 2 (2.15%) Sybase
6 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.08%) Globalscape
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Siemens
6 1 (1.08%) VMware