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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 532 521
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 130 108 253
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 1.40% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 81 40 182
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +4.09% -
75th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,750 £82,250
UK median annual salary £57,250 £57,500 £56,541
% change year-on-year -0.43% +1.70% +2.80%

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 6,175 7,689 13,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.73% 18.71% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,923 4,600 10,584
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,980 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £76,250
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 5 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 5 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 +60 52 £50,000 -17.36% 20
South East +14 42 £58,000 +5.45% 19
South West -12 10 £60,000 -14.02% 4
East of England +16 9 - - 3
Midlands -26 9 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North of England -50 8 £53,000 -3.64% 12
East Midlands -21 7 £52,500 -9.48% 5
North West -28 7 £53,000 -7.83% 5
West Midlands -24 2 £38,000 -36.67% 2
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 7
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 24 (18.46%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (17.69%) Apache
2 23 (17.69%) Apache Spark
2 23 (17.69%) Exchange Server 2003
2 23 (17.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.62%) Mule
4 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.08%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.31%) JBoss
5 3 (2.31%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.31%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.54%) Confluence
6 2 (1.54%) IIS
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (9.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.31%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.31%) Primavera
3 2 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.62%) AWS
2 24 (18.46%) Amazon S3
2 24 (18.46%) OpenShift
3 14 (10.77%) Azure
4 6 (4.62%) SaaS
5 4 (3.08%) OCI
6 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.54%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.54%) PaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.77%) dbt
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.77%) Serverless
8 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.92%) DHCP
1 22 (16.92%) DNS
2 2 (1.54%) Extranet
2 2 (1.54%) Intranet
3 1 (0.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.77%) SMTP
3 1 (0.77%) X.400
3 1 (0.77%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.08%) Oracle Database 10g
2 26 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 23 (17.69%) Apache Hive
3 23 (17.69%) Impala
3 23 (17.69%) Parquet
3 23 (17.69%) Spark SQL
3 23 (17.69%) Tableau
4 16 (12.31%) Relational Database
5 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (7.69%) Metadata
7 9 (6.92%) Oracle Database 12c
8 8 (6.15%) Oracle Database 11g
9 7 (5.38%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (4.62%) MySQL
11 5 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.31%) Oracle Discoverer
12 3 (2.31%) Power BI
12 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Git
2 23 (17.69%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.85%) JIRA
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (3.08%) Selenium
5 2 (1.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.54%) JMeter
5 2 (1.54%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.54%) Ranorex
5 2 (1.54%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.54%) Subversion
5 2 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.77%) JUnit
General
1 48 (36.92%) Finance
2 34 (26.15%) Banking
3 33 (25.38%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
5 22 (16.92%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.46%) Legal
7 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Electronics
9 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Billing
10 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.77%) German Language
Job Titles
1 28 (21.54%) Analyst
2 23 (17.69%) 3rd Line Support
2 23 (17.69%) Systems Support
3 21 (16.15%) Transformation Analyst
4 20 (15.38%) Banking Analyst
5 14 (10.77%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) DBA
7 12 (9.23%) Technical Analyst
8 11 (8.46%) Data Business Analyst
9 10 (7.69%) Administrator
9 10 (7.69%) Architect
9 10 (7.69%) Developer
9 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 9 (6.92%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (5.38%) Oracle Architect
11 7 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) IT Support
12 6 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.69%) PySpark
2 12 (9.23%) Pandas
3 10 (7.69%) Kafka
3 10 (7.69%) REST
4 5 (3.85%) SOAP
4 5 (3.85%) Web Services
5 4 (3.08%) HTML
6 3 (2.31%) Middleware
6 3 (2.31%) ModSecurity
6 3 (2.31%) Oracle ADF
6 3 (2.31%) Swagger
6 3 (2.31%) WebCenter
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.54%) Playwright
7 2 (1.54%) XML
7 2 (1.54%) XSL
8 1 (0.77%) CSS
8 1 (0.77%) JSON
8 1 (0.77%) JSP
8 1 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Replication
2 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.54%) Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.77%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.00%) Windows
2 36 (27.69%) Unix
3 24 (18.46%) HPUX
3 24 (18.46%) Linux
3 24 (18.46%) Solaris
3 24 (18.46%) Windows Server 2003
3 24 (18.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (17.69%) Windows 7
5 7 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.85%) AIX
8 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.31%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.77%) ETL
2 39 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 38 (29.23%) Analytics
4 37 (28.46%) Agile
5 34 (26.15%) Data Governance
6 28 (21.54%) CI/CD
6 28 (21.54%) Performance Tuning
7 27 (20.77%) Incident Management
7 27 (20.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 25 (19.23%) Data Engineering
9 24 (18.46%) AI
9 24 (18.46%) Data Transformation
10 23 (17.69%) Scrum
11 19 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (13.08%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (13.08%) Translating Business Requirements
13 16 (12.31%) Runbook
14 14 (10.77%) Data Analysis
14 14 (10.77%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.38%) SQL
2 36 (27.69%) Python
3 29 (22.31%) PowerShell
4 24 (18.46%) Perl
5 19 (14.62%) Java
6 15 (11.54%) PL/SQL
7 9 (6.92%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.62%) Bash
9 5 (3.85%) Korn
10 4 (3.08%) C#
11 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.38%) SC Cleared
3 26 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.85%) Degree
5 16 (12.31%) Oracle Certification
6 14 (10.77%) OCP
7 9 (6.92%) CISSP
7 9 (6.92%) MCSE
7 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 26 (20.00%) GDPR
3 25 (19.23%) SLA
4 11 (8.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (8.46%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.08%) QA
6 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.54%) SEPA
7 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.77%) NIST
7 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (21.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (6.15%) Docker
4 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (8.46%) Data Guard
2 9 (6.92%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (6.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.85%) Nagios
6 4 (3.08%) Ansible
7 3 (2.31%) Puppet
8 2 (1.54%) Grafana
8 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.77%) Ambari
9 1 (0.77%) Netcool
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.77%) Terraform
9 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (100.00%) Oracle
2 45 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 26 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 24 (18.46%) VMware
5 5 (3.85%) Delphix
5 5 (3.85%) IBM
6 4 (3.08%) HP
7 3 (2.31%) IFS
8 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.54%) SAP
8 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.54%) Splunk
8 2 (1.54%) Sybase
9 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.77%) Citrix
9 1 (0.77%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.77%) Siemens
9 1 (0.77%) Software AG
9 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.77%) webMethods