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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 552 539
Rank change year-on-year -99 -13 -122
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 97 92 218
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.095% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 1.43% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 79 62 71
10th Percentile £43,250 £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 £71,250 £79,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £86,250
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 7,991 6,434 10,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.86% 14.89% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,581 4,191 6,534
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

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 September 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 18 September 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 -59 36 £75,000 +13.21% 74
North West +2 25 £55,000 - 16
North of England -53 25 £55,000 -18.52% 20
South West -77 15 £55,000 -15.38% 14
South East -41 11 £33,500 -31.98% 18
Midlands -43 7 £55,000 +14.36% 12
East Midlands -37 6 £55,000 -21.43% 3
East of England -45 2 £60,000 +4.35% 2
West Midlands -48 1 - - 9
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 6 (6.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.09%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.03%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.03%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) AWS
3 6 (6.19%) OCI
4 4 (4.12%) SaaS
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle CX
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) PaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Serverless
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.03%) dbt
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) IaaS
7 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.03%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) LAN
1 2 (2.06%) VoIP
1 2 (2.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) FTP
2 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.31%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle Database 12c
5 6 (6.19%) MySQL
6 5 (5.15%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (3.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (3.09%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.06%) SQLPlus
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (1.03%) Redis
10 1 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (1.03%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Git
1 7 (7.22%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (5.15%) JIRA
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.06%) Ranorex
3 2 (2.06%) Selenium
3 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.06%) Toad
4 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) Flyway
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.03%) Postman
4 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.03%) TestRail
4 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (39.18%) Finance
2 36 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.06%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.03%) German Language
9 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (50.52%) DBA
2 44 (45.36%) Oracle DBA
3 15 (15.46%) Administrator
4 14 (14.43%) Senior
5 13 (13.40%) Lead
6 10 (10.31%) Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Senior DBA
6 10 (10.31%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 8 (8.25%) Oracle Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Test Leader
8 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) MySQL DBA
9 5 (5.15%) Database Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.09%) Architect
11 3 (3.09%) Consultant
11 3 (3.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (6.19%) Middleware
3 5 (5.15%) REST
4 3 (3.09%) Terraform
5 2 (2.06%) SOAP
5 2 (2.06%) Web Services
5 2 (2.06%) XML
5 2 (2.06%) XSL
6 1 (1.03%) .NET
6 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.03%) BAPI
6 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.03%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (1.03%) JMS
6 1 (1.03%) JPA
6 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.03%) React
6 1 (1.03%) SAP XI
6 1 (1.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Clustering
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.74%) Linux
2 19 (19.59%) Unix
3 13 (13.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (11.34%) AIX
4 11 (11.34%) Windows
5 10 (10.31%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
7 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 23 (23.71%) Agile
3 21 (21.65%) ITIL
3 21 (21.65%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.46%) ERP
6 13 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
7 12 (12.37%) ETL
7 12 (12.37%) High Availability
8 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.31%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (10.31%) Change Management
9 10 (10.31%) Configuration Management
9 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.31%) Incident Response
9 10 (10.31%) Logistics
9 10 (10.31%) Runbook
10 9 (9.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.05%) SQL
2 26 (26.80%) PL/SQL
3 14 (14.43%) Shell Script
4 12 (12.37%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) Korn
5 8 (8.25%) Clojure
6 5 (5.15%) Java
6 5 (5.15%) Python
7 3 (3.09%) C#
8 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.03%) ABAP
9 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) ISTQB
2 8 (8.25%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.03%) OCP
8 1 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (14.43%) Data Guard
3 11 (11.34%) Ansible
4 10 (10.31%) Nagios
5 6 (6.19%) Progress Chef
5 6 (6.19%) Puppet
6 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 97 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.37%) IBM
4 8 (8.25%) IFS
5 3 (3.09%) Infor
6 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) Globalscape
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) YouTube