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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 540 422
Rank change year-on-year +46 -118 +48
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 120 159 242
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 1.71% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 95 57 176
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,043 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,710 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,600 £72,600 £85,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Database and 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 5,966 9,307 9,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.72% 17.79% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,946 5,414 7,367
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,229
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +75 39 £50,000 -20.32% 20
South East +45 39 £58,000 +1.75% 11
Midlands +13 11 £47,500 +3.59% 5
East of England - 11 £40,000 -
South West +6 10 £60,000 -29.62% 2
North of England -7 9 £53,000 +17.20% 6
North West +9 7 £51,000 +5.43% 6
East Midlands +5 7 £52,500 -0.94%
West Midlands +9 4 £42,500 -1.16% 5
Yorkshire -7 2 £80,000 +76.04%
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 26 (21.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (21.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.00%) Mule
3 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.33%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.50%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.50%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.67%) Confluence
5 2 (1.67%) IIS
5 2 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.50%) Primavera
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.50%) AWS
2 20 (16.67%) Azure
3 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.00%) OCI
4 6 (5.00%) SaaS
5 4 (3.33%) Boomi
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.67%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.67%) PaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
8 1 (0.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.33%) DHCP
1 22 (18.33%) DNS
2 4 (3.33%) SMTP
2 4 (3.33%) X.400
2 4 (3.33%) X.500
3 2 (1.67%) Extranet
3 2 (1.67%) Intranet
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.50%) Oracle Database 10g
2 26 (21.67%) SQL Server
3 17 (14.17%) Relational Database
4 16 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (10.83%) Metadata
6 11 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (7.50%) Oracle Database 12c
7 9 (7.50%) Power BI
8 8 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
9 7 (5.83%) Oracle Database 11g
10 6 (5.00%) RDBMS
10 6 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (4.17%) MySQL
12 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.50%) Oracle Discoverer
14 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.83%) OLAP
14 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 5 (4.17%) JIRA
1 5 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.67%) JMeter
4 2 (1.67%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.67%) Selenium
4 2 (1.67%) Subversion
4 2 (1.67%) TestRail
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 27 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Finance
4 7 (5.83%) Banking
5 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Advertising
7 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Billing
8 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (19.17%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (19.17%) Systems Support
2 14 (11.67%) Analyst
2 14 (11.67%) Data Engineer
3 13 (10.83%) Architect
3 13 (10.83%) DBA
4 11 (9.17%) Administrator
5 10 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
6 9 (7.50%) Oracle DBA
7 8 (6.67%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.67%) Database Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Developer
8 7 (5.83%) ERP Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) IT Support
9 6 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.00%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) Kafka
2 6 (5.00%) Middleware
2 6 (5.00%) REST
3 5 (4.17%) .NET
4 4 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.33%) RESTful
5 3 (2.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.50%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (2.50%) SOAP
5 3 (2.50%) Web Services
5 3 (2.50%) WebCenter
6 2 (1.67%) Playwright
6 2 (1.67%) Swagger
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.83%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Replication
2 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 39 (32.50%) Windows
2 37 (30.83%) Unix
3 27 (22.50%) Solaris
3 27 (22.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (21.67%) HPUX
5 23 (19.17%) Windows 7
5 23 (19.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (18.33%) Linux
7 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.33%) AIX
9 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.50%) Incident Management
2 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (14.17%) Analytics
4 17 (14.17%) ETL
4 17 (14.17%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (11.67%) Data Engineering
6 14 (11.67%) ERP
6 14 (11.67%) Migration
7 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (10.83%) Data Architecture
7 13 (10.83%) Data Governance
7 13 (10.83%) Data Modelling
7 13 (10.83%) High Availability
8 12 (10.00%) Data Management
8 12 (10.00%) Data Security
8 12 (10.00%) Data Strategy
8 12 (10.00%) ITIL
8 12 (10.00%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.83%) SQL
2 30 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 24 (20.00%) Perl
4 17 (14.17%) PL/SQL
5 15 (12.50%) Java
6 14 (11.67%) Python
7 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.50%) Bash
8 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.67%) C#
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (30.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 25 (20.83%) Degree
5 21 (17.50%) OCP
5 21 (17.50%) Oracle Certification
6 12 (10.00%) CISSP
6 12 (10.00%) MCSE
6 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.83%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.83%) SLA
2 13 (10.83%) GDPR
3 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) SEPA
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.50%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 11 (9.17%) Data Guard
3 9 (7.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (5.83%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.17%) Ansible
6 4 (3.33%) Nagios
7 3 (2.50%) Grafana
7 3 (2.50%) Netcool
7 3 (2.50%) Puppet
8 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.83%) Ambari
9 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.83%) Terraform
9 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (100.00%) Oracle
2 55 (45.83%) Microsoft
3 27 (22.50%) VMware
4 9 (7.50%) IFS
5 8 (6.67%) Delphix
6 4 (3.33%) Dell
6 4 (3.33%) HP
6 4 (3.33%) IBM
7 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.50%) Snow
7 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.83%) Citrix
9 1 (0.83%) Siemens
9 1 (0.83%) Software AG
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) webMethods