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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 537 418
Rank change year-on-year +40 -119 +78
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 132 184 280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.30% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 1.90% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 95 68 208
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,275 £36,675
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,563 £40,564
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,688 £71,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £84,875
UK median annual salary £57,750 £59,125 £57,000
% change year-on-year -2.33% +3.73% +3.64%

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 6,091 9,700 10,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.02% 15.98% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,080 5,522 8,000
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,799
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.18% -1.12%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.44%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +38 43 £50,000 -31.03% 43
South East +33 39 £58,000 +1.75% 34
East of England - 17 £55,000 - 3
North of England -15 11 £75,000 +65.03% 9
Midlands +34 10 £42,500 -4.34% 17
South West +27 10 £57,500 - 11
North West +6 7 £50,750 +12.78% 2
East Midlands +25 6 £52,500 +9.38% 2
West Midlands +35 4 £42,500 -1.16% 14
Yorkshire +11 4 £80,000 +63.36% 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 26 (19.70%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (19.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.55%) Mule
3 5 (3.79%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.27%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.27%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.52%) Confluence
7 1 (0.76%) IIS
7 1 (0.76%) JBoss
7 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.27%) Primavera
3 2 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.94%) AWS
1 25 (18.94%) Azure
2 10 (7.58%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.30%) SaaS
4 6 (4.55%) Boomi
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.55%) OCI
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.52%) Contentstack
6 2 (1.52%) dbt
6 2 (1.52%) PaaS
6 2 (1.52%) Serverless
6 2 (1.52%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.76%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.76%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.67%) DHCP
1 22 (16.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.03%) SMTP
2 4 (3.03%) X.400
2 4 (3.03%) X.500
3 2 (1.52%) Extranet
3 2 (1.52%) Intranet
4 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 24 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 19 (14.39%) Relational Database
4 18 (13.64%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (9.09%) Metadata
6 10 (7.58%) Oracle Database 12c
6 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (6.82%) Oracle Database 11g
8 8 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
8 8 (6.06%) Power BI
8 8 (6.06%) RDBMS
9 7 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.79%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.27%) MySQL
11 3 (2.27%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 1 (0.76%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.55%) JIRA
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.03%) JUnit
5 4 (3.03%) Maven
5 4 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.27%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.27%) Subversion
7 2 (1.52%) JMeter
7 2 (1.52%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) TestRail
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.76%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) Xcode
General
1 33 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.97%) Finance
3 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Banking
5 8 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.30%) Law
7 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.27%) Electronics
8 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 3 (2.27%) Retail
8 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.52%) Advertising
9 2 (1.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 23 (17.42%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (17.42%) Systems Support
2 18 (13.64%) Developer
3 15 (11.36%) Analyst
4 14 (10.61%) Architect
5 13 (9.85%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) DBA
7 10 (7.58%) Administrator
7 10 (7.58%) Oracle Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Oracle Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.06%) Database Architect
9 8 (6.06%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) ERP Analyst
10 7 (5.30%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Senior
10 7 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.61%) Kafka
2 11 (8.33%) REST
3 8 (6.06%) Spring
4 7 (5.30%) .NET
4 7 (5.30%) JMS
4 7 (5.30%) Middleware
4 7 (5.30%) RESTful
5 6 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (3.03%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.03%) Oracle ADF
6 4 (3.03%) React
6 4 (3.03%) SOAP
7 3 (2.27%) HTML
7 3 (2.27%) Java EE
7 3 (2.27%) ModSecurity
7 3 (2.27%) Swagger
7 3 (2.27%) Web Services
7 3 (2.27%) WebCenter
8 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Replication
2 8 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.52%) Clustering
4 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (28.79%) Unix
2 36 (27.27%) Windows
3 28 (21.21%) Solaris
4 27 (20.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 26 (19.70%) HPUX
6 23 (17.42%) Windows 7
7 22 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 19 (14.39%) Linux
9 4 (3.03%) AIX
10 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (19.70%) Incident Management
3 19 (14.39%) ETL
4 18 (13.64%) Agile
4 18 (13.64%) Analytics
4 18 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (12.88%) Migration
6 16 (12.12%) ERP
7 15 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (10.61%) Data Analysis
8 14 (10.61%) Data Engineering
8 14 (10.61%) Data Modelling
8 14 (10.61%) High Availability
9 13 (9.85%) Data Architecture
9 13 (9.85%) SDLC
10 12 (9.09%) Data Governance
10 12 (9.09%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.91%) SQL
2 29 (21.97%) PowerShell
3 23 (17.42%) Java
3 23 (17.42%) Perl
3 23 (17.42%) PL/SQL
4 16 (12.12%) Python
5 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.52%) Bash
7 2 (1.52%) C#
8 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 30 (22.73%) DV Cleared
4 28 (21.21%) Degree
5 22 (16.67%) OCP
5 22 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
6 14 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (8.33%) CISSP
8 11 (8.33%) MCSE
9 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.76%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.18%) SLA
2 12 (9.09%) GDPR
3 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 29 (21.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.82%) Docker
2 9 (6.82%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 11 (8.33%) Data Guard
3 9 (6.82%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.27%) Ansible
5 3 (2.27%) Nagios
5 3 (2.27%) Netcool
6 2 (1.52%) Grafana
6 2 (1.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.76%) Ambari
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.76%) Terraform
7 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 132 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 26 (19.70%) VMware
4 12 (9.09%) IFS
5 8 (6.06%) Delphix
6 6 (4.55%) Dell
7 4 (3.03%) HP
7 4 (3.03%) IBM
8 3 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (2.27%) SAP
8 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.27%) Snow
8 3 (2.27%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.27%) Sybase
9 2 (1.52%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.76%) Citrix
10 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.76%) Software AG
10 1 (0.76%) webMethods