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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 526 565
Rank change year-on-year -21 +39 -45
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 128 91 242
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 1.33% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 86 42 160
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £46,875 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,500 £55,582
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -0.15% +1.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £78,875
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -2.61% +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 6,779 6,855 14,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.20% 18.76% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 4,755 11,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +26 54 £60,000 -0.83% 24
South East -2 39 £58,000 +10.48% 9
South West -26 12 £60,000 -14.02% 2
East of England -18 9 £60,000 -
Midlands -61 7 £52,500 -11.02% 4
North of England -92 7 £55,000 - 10
East Midlands -53 5 £52,500 -17.97% 1
Yorkshire -63 4 - - 3
North West -46 3 £55,000 -2.22% 7
West Midlands -42 2 £38,000 -33.91% 3
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 (19.53%) Apache
1 25 (19.53%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (19.53%) Apache Spark
2 20 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2003
2 20 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.13%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.34%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.34%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.56%) Confluence
5 2 (1.56%) IIS
5 2 (1.56%) JBoss
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.34%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (2.34%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.34%) Primavera
3 2 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.47%) AWS
2 26 (20.31%) OpenShift
3 25 (19.53%) Amazon S3
4 16 (12.50%) Azure
5 6 (4.69%) OCI
6 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.78%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.78%) GCP
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
7 1 (0.78%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.84%) DHCP
1 19 (14.84%) DNS
2 2 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) SMTP
3 1 (0.78%) X.400
3 1 (0.78%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.31%) Oracle Database 10g
3 25 (19.53%) Apache Hive
3 25 (19.53%) Impala
3 25 (19.53%) Parquet
3 25 (19.53%) Spark SQL
3 25 (19.53%) Tableau
4 17 (13.28%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (7.81%) Oracle Database 12c
7 9 (7.03%) Oracle Database 11g
7 9 (7.03%) Oracle Exadata
8 6 (4.69%) MySQL
9 5 (3.91%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.34%) Metadata
10 3 (2.34%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (2.34%) Power BI
10 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.56%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 33 (25.78%) Git
2 25 (19.53%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (4.69%) JIRA
5 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.34%) Ranorex
6 3 (2.34%) Selenium
6 3 (2.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.56%) GitLab
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.78%) Postman
8 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.78%) TestRail
8 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (34.38%) Finance
2 36 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (25.78%) Banking
4 24 (18.75%) Investment Banking
5 22 (17.19%) Social Skills
6 12 (9.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.56%) Electronics
9 2 (1.56%) German Language
9 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Advertising
10 1 (0.78%) Billing
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (23.44%) Analyst
2 24 (18.75%) DBA
3 23 (17.97%) Transformation Analyst
4 22 (17.19%) Banking Analyst
5 21 (16.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 20 (15.63%) Systems Support
7 18 (14.06%) Oracle DBA
8 14 (10.94%) Administrator
8 14 (10.94%) Business Analyst
8 14 (10.94%) Data Engineer
9 13 (10.16%) Technical Analyst
10 12 (9.38%) Data Business Analyst
11 11 (8.59%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 10 (7.81%) Developer
13 7 (5.47%) Lead
13 7 (5.47%) Senior
14 6 (4.69%) Database Engineer
15 5 (3.91%) Senior DBA
15 5 (3.91%) Technical Support
16 4 (3.13%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) PySpark
2 13 (10.16%) Pandas
3 7 (5.47%) Web Services
4 6 (4.69%) REST
5 4 (3.13%) HTML
6 3 (2.34%) Middleware
6 3 (2.34%) ModSecurity
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle ADF
6 3 (2.34%) SOAP
6 3 (2.34%) WebCenter
6 3 (2.34%) XML
6 3 (2.34%) XSL
7 2 (1.56%) React
8 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.78%) Jest
8 1 (0.78%) Kafka
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.78%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Replication
2 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.34%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.56%) Clustering
6 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.47%) Windows
2 34 (26.56%) Unix
3 21 (16.41%) HPUX
3 21 (16.41%) Solaris
3 21 (16.41%) Windows Server 2003
3 21 (16.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (15.63%) Linux
4 20 (15.63%) Windows 7
5 8 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 7 (5.47%) AIX
6 7 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.34%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.59%) Agile
2 41 (32.03%) ETL
3 40 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (30.47%) Analytics
5 32 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 31 (24.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (22.66%) Data Governance
8 28 (21.88%) Scrum
9 27 (21.09%) Incident Management
9 27 (21.09%) Translating Business Requirements
10 26 (20.31%) Data Transformation
10 26 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (19.53%) AI
11 25 (19.53%) Data Engineering
12 21 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (13.28%) Runbook
14 15 (11.72%) Data Analysis
14 15 (11.72%) Validation
15 14 (10.94%) Data Validation
15 14 (10.94%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 61 (47.66%) SQL
2 37 (28.91%) Python
3 25 (19.53%) PowerShell
4 22 (17.19%) Perl
5 16 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 11 (8.59%) Java
7 8 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.47%) Bash
9 6 (4.69%) Korn
10 4 (3.13%) C#
11 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.78%) Clojure
12 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.53%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.03%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (6.25%) Degree
6 6 (4.69%) OCP
7 5 (3.91%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) CISSP
8 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.34%) MCSE
8 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (27.34%) Data Quality
2 25 (19.53%) GDPR
3 22 (17.19%) SLA
4 12 (9.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (9.38%) HIPAA
5 6 (4.69%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (19.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.38%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (4.69%) Docker
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle Clusterware
5 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (11.72%) Data Guard
2 10 (7.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 10 (7.81%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (4.69%) Ansible
3 6 (4.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.91%) Nagios
5 3 (2.34%) Puppet
6 2 (1.56%) Grafana
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.78%) Ambari
7 1 (0.78%) Kibana
7 1 (0.78%) Terraform
7 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (100.00%) Oracle
2 42 (32.81%) Microsoft
3 27 (21.09%) Red Hat
4 21 (16.41%) VMware
5 5 (3.91%) IBM
6 4 (3.13%) IFS
7 2 (1.56%) Delphix
7 2 (1.56%) SAP
7 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) Splunk
7 2 (1.56%) Sybase
8 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) Citrix
8 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.78%) HP
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) Siemens