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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 537 527
Rank change year-on-year -128 -10 -109
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 100 92 222
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.096% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.27% 1.46% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 75 59 71
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile - £46,000 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,125
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%

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 7,866 6,307 10,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.57% 14.59% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,521 4,068 6,180
10th Percentile £36,800 £33,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -63 35 £75,000 +8.30% 78
North West -15 28 £55,000 - 17
North of England -50 28 £55,000 -18.52% 22
South West -61 15 £55,000 -15.38% 17
South East -49 10 £33,000 -35.92% 19
Midlands -46 9 £55,000 +29.41% 14
East Midlands -34 6 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -44 3 - - 10
East of England -56 2 £60,000 +4.35% 1
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 7 (7.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.00%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.00%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.00%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (10.00%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) Azure
2 9 (9.00%) AWS
3 6 (6.00%) OCI
4 4 (4.00%) SaaS
4 4 (4.00%) Serverless
5 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle CX
5 3 (3.00%) PaaS
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.00%) iPaaS
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.00%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.00%) GitHub
7 1 (1.00%) IaaS
7 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) LAN
1 2 (2.00%) VoIP
1 2 (2.00%) WAN
2 1 (1.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) FTP
2 1 (1.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.00%) MySQL
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (2.00%) Redis
7 2 (2.00%) SQLPlus
8 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Git
2 5 (5.00%) GitLab
2 5 (5.00%) JIRA
2 5 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.00%) Flyway
3 2 (2.00%) Ranorex
3 2 (2.00%) Selenium
3 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.00%) Toad
4 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) JMeter
4 1 (1.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.00%) LSMW
4 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (40.00%) Finance
2 37 (37.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.00%) Retail
7 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (51.00%) DBA
2 43 (43.00%) Oracle DBA
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
4 14 (14.00%) Administrator
5 13 (13.00%) Lead
6 11 (11.00%) Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Senior DBA
7 10 (10.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 8 (8.00%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Test Leader
9 6 (6.00%) MySQL DBA
10 5 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 4 (4.00%) Support Analyst
12 3 (3.00%) Consultant
12 3 (3.00%) Data Architect
12 3 (3.00%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (3.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (7.00%) Middleware
2 7 (7.00%) REST
3 4 (4.00%) Terraform
4 3 (3.00%) .NET
4 3 (3.00%) PySpark
4 3 (3.00%) Web Services
5 2 (2.00%) XML
5 2 (2.00%) XSL
6 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.00%) BAPI
6 1 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.00%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (1.00%) JMS
6 1 (1.00%) JPA
6 1 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.00%) React
6 1 (1.00%) SAP XI
6 1 (1.00%) SOAP
6 1 (1.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.00%) Clustering
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.00%) Replication
5 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.00%) Linux
2 19 (19.00%) Unix
3 13 (13.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (12.00%) Windows
5 11 (11.00%) AIX
6 10 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
8 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) Agile
2 26 (26.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 21 (21.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (20.00%) ITIL
4 20 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (16.00%) ERP
6 15 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 14 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (14.00%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.00%) High Availability
9 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.00%) ETL
9 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.00%) Change Management
11 10 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
11 10 (10.00%) Configuration Management
11 10 (10.00%) DevOps
11 10 (10.00%) Logistics
11 10 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) SQL
2 25 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 14 (14.00%) Shell Script
4 11 (11.00%) Bash
4 11 (11.00%) Korn
5 8 (8.00%) Clojure
6 6 (6.00%) Java
7 5 (5.00%) C#
7 5 (5.00%) Python
8 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.00%) ABAP
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) ISTQB
3 10 (10.00%) Degree
3 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.00%) OCP
8 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
8 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) QA
3 5 (5.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (13.00%) Data Guard
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
3 10 (10.00%) Nagios
4 6 (6.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.00%) Puppet
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (12.00%) IBM
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.00%) IFS
4 3 (3.00%) Infor
5 2 (2.00%) Talend
5 2 (2.00%) UiPath
5 2 (2.00%) YouTube
6 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.00%) Citrix
6 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.00%) Globalscape
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) SAP