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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 532 412
Rank change year-on-year +43 -120 +66
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 115 157 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.31% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.93% 1.72% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 90 55 179
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,945 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,710 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,125 £72,216
90th Percentile £77,125 £71,000 £84,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +6.82%

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 5,973 9,142 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.64% 17.92% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,929 5,272 7,287
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,000
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £96,723
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -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 18 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 18 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 +67 39 £50,000 -17.36% 18
South East +45 39 £58,000 +2.65% 11
Midlands +2 11 £47,500 +3.59% 5
South West +16 10 £60,000 -14.02% 2
North of England -1 8 £51,000 +13.33% 8
North West +6 7 £51,000 +5.43% 7
East Midlands -4 7 £52,500 -0.94%
East of England - 7 £40,000 -
West Midlands +15 4 £42,500 -1.16% 5
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 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 26 (22.61%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (22.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.22%) Mule
3 4 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.48%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.61%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.61%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.74%) Confluence
5 2 (1.74%) IIS
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.87%) JBoss
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.61%) Primavera
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.87%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.26%) AWS
2 20 (17.39%) Azure
3 9 (7.83%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.22%) OCI
4 6 (5.22%) SaaS
5 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.74%) Contentstack
6 2 (1.74%) PaaS
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.87%) dbt
7 1 (0.87%) GCP
7 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.87%) Serverless
7 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.13%) DHCP
1 22 (19.13%) DNS
2 4 (3.48%) SMTP
2 4 (3.48%) X.400
2 4 (3.48%) X.500
3 2 (1.74%) Extranet
3 2 (1.74%) Intranet
4 1 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.70%) Oracle Database 10g
2 22 (19.13%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.30%) Metadata
3 13 (11.30%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.43%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (7.83%) Power BI
7 8 (6.96%) Oracle Database 12c
7 8 (6.96%) Oracle Exadata
8 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database 11g
9 5 (4.35%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.35%) MySQL
10 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.61%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (1.74%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.87%) Oracle OLAP
13 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 5 (4.35%) JIRA
1 5 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.74%) JMeter
4 2 (1.74%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.74%) Selenium
4 2 (1.74%) Subversion
4 2 (1.74%) TestRail
5 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
General
1 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.52%) Finance
4 7 (6.09%) Banking
5 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.74%) Advertising
7 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Billing
8 1 (0.87%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (20.00%) Systems Support
2 14 (12.17%) Analyst
2 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Architect
3 13 (11.30%) DBA
4 11 (9.57%) Administrator
5 10 (8.70%) Oracle Architect
6 9 (7.83%) Oracle DBA
7 8 (6.96%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.96%) Database Architect
8 7 (6.09%) Developer
8 7 (6.09%) ERP Analyst
8 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) IT Support
9 6 (5.22%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.22%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) Kafka
2 6 (5.22%) REST
3 5 (4.35%) Middleware
4 3 (2.61%) HTML
4 3 (2.61%) ModSecurity
4 3 (2.61%) Oracle ADF
4 3 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.61%) SOAP
4 3 (2.61%) Web Services
4 3 (2.61%) WebCenter
5 2 (1.74%) Playwright
5 2 (1.74%) Swagger
6 1 (0.87%) .NET
6 1 (0.87%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.87%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.87%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Replication
2 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) Clustering
4 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.87%) NHS
5 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.87%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 39 (33.91%) Windows
2 37 (32.17%) Unix
3 27 (23.48%) Solaris
3 27 (23.48%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (22.61%) HPUX
5 23 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 23 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (19.13%) Linux
7 5 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.48%) AIX
9 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.48%) Incident Management
2 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (16.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (14.78%) Analytics
4 17 (14.78%) ETL
4 17 (14.78%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (12.17%) Data Engineering
7 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (11.30%) Data Architecture
7 13 (11.30%) Data Governance
7 13 (11.30%) Data Modelling
7 13 (11.30%) High Availability
8 12 (10.43%) Data Management
8 12 (10.43%) Data Security
8 12 (10.43%) Data Strategy
8 12 (10.43%) ITIL
8 12 (10.43%) Master Data Management
9 11 (9.57%) Agile
9 11 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.91%) SQL
2 30 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 24 (20.87%) Perl
4 15 (13.04%) Java
5 14 (12.17%) Python
6 13 (11.30%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.61%) Bash
8 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.74%) C#
10 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 37 (32.17%) SC Cleared
3 30 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 25 (21.74%) Degree
5 21 (18.26%) OCP
5 21 (18.26%) Oracle Certification
6 12 (10.43%) CISSP
6 12 (10.43%) MCSE
6 12 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.87%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.74%) SLA
2 13 (11.30%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) SEPA
5 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.83%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 11 (9.57%) Data Guard
3 9 (7.83%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.35%) Ansible
6 4 (3.48%) Nagios
7 3 (2.61%) Grafana
7 3 (2.61%) Netcool
7 3 (2.61%) Puppet
8 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.87%) Ambari
9 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.87%) Terraform
9 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Oracle
2 51 (44.35%) Microsoft
3 27 (23.48%) VMware
4 8 (6.96%) Delphix
5 5 (4.35%) IFS
6 4 (3.48%) HP
6 4 (3.48%) IBM
7 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.61%) Snow
7 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.74%) SAP
9 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.87%) Citrix
9 1 (0.87%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.87%) Siemens
9 1 (0.87%) Software AG
9 1 (0.87%) Splunk
9 1 (0.87%) webMethods