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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 550 498
Rank change year-on-year +46 -52 +15
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 113 127 243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.27% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.93% 1.49% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 88 49 172
10th Percentile £37,200 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,875 £70,200 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -3.51% -2.98% +6.82%

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 5,853 8,538 11,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.61% 17.96% 19.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,820 4,772 9,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -6.40%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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
South East +51 42 £58,000 +5.45% 7
London +49 38 £50,000 -17.36% 10
South West 0 10 £60,000 -14.02% 8
Midlands -10 9 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North of England -20 8 £53,000 +17.20% 7
East Midlands -1 7 £52,500 -9.09% 1
North West -3 7 £53,000 -7.83% 3
East of England - 6 £40,000 -
West Midlands +2 2 £38,000 -36.67% 2
Yorkshire -25 1 - - 2
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 (23.01%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (23.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.31%) Mule
3 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.54%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.65%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.65%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.77%) Confluence
5 2 (1.77%) IIS
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.65%) Primavera
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.77%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.81%) Azure
2 18 (15.93%) AWS
3 7 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.31%) SaaS
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.42%) OCI
6 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.77%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.77%) PaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.88%) dbt
8 1 (0.88%) GCP
8 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.47%) DHCP
1 22 (19.47%) DNS
2 4 (3.54%) SMTP
2 4 (3.54%) X.400
2 4 (3.54%) X.500
3 2 (1.77%) Extranet
3 2 (1.77%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (29.20%) Oracle Database 10g
2 26 (23.01%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.50%) Metadata
3 13 (11.50%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (8.85%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (6.19%) Oracle Database 12c
6 7 (6.19%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (6.19%) Power BI
7 6 (5.31%) MySQL
7 6 (5.31%) Oracle Database 11g
8 5 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.54%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.65%) Oracle Discoverer
11 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.77%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (1.77%) Sybase IQ
12 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
1 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.42%) JIRA
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.65%) Git
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.65%) Selenium
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
3 2 (1.77%) JMeter
3 2 (1.77%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.77%) Ranorex
3 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.77%) Subversion
3 2 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.77%) TestRail
4 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
General
1 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
3 20 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Banking
5 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Advertising
7 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Electronics
7 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Billing
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (20.35%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (20.35%) Systems Support
2 14 (12.39%) Data Engineer
3 12 (10.62%) Architect
3 12 (10.62%) DBA
4 11 (9.73%) Administrator
5 10 (8.85%) Analyst
6 9 (7.96%) Oracle Architect
7 8 (7.08%) Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (6.19%) Applications Support
8 7 (6.19%) Database Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) IT Support
9 6 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Lead
10 5 (4.42%) Support Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) Kafka
2 7 (6.19%) REST
3 5 (4.42%) Middleware
4 4 (3.54%) SOAP
4 4 (3.54%) Web Services
5 3 (2.65%) HTML
5 3 (2.65%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.65%) Swagger
5 3 (2.65%) WebCenter
6 2 (1.77%) Playwright
6 2 (1.77%) XML
6 2 (1.77%) XSL
7 1 (0.88%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.88%) Jest
7 1 (0.88%) JSON
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.88%) React
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Replication
2 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.65%) Clustering
4 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.77%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 42 (37.17%) Windows
2 36 (31.86%) Unix
3 27 (23.89%) Solaris
3 27 (23.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (23.01%) HPUX
5 24 (21.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 23 (20.35%) Windows 7
7 20 (17.70%) Linux
8 6 (5.31%) Windows Server
9 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (3.54%) AIX
10 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) Incident Management
2 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (15.04%) ETL
4 16 (14.16%) Analytics
4 16 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (13.27%) Agile
6 14 (12.39%) Data Engineering
6 14 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (11.50%) Data Architecture
7 13 (11.50%) Data Governance
8 12 (10.62%) Data Management
8 12 (10.62%) Data Modelling
8 12 (10.62%) Data Security
8 12 (10.62%) Data Strategy
8 12 (10.62%) High Availability
8 12 (10.62%) Master Data Management
9 11 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) SQL
2 30 (26.55%) PowerShell
3 24 (21.24%) Perl
4 15 (13.27%) Java
5 12 (10.62%) Python
6 11 (9.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.54%) C#
8 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.77%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (35.40%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.63%) SC Cleared
3 30 (26.55%) DV Cleared
4 22 (19.47%) Degree
5 19 (16.81%) OCP
5 19 (16.81%) Oracle Certification
6 12 (10.62%) CISSP
6 12 (10.62%) MCSE
6 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.77%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.12%) SLA
2 13 (11.50%) GDPR
3 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.54%) QA
5 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.77%) SEPA
6 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (26.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.08%) Docker
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 9 (7.96%) Data Guard
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.54%) Ansible
6 3 (2.65%) Nagios
6 3 (2.65%) Netcool
6 3 (2.65%) Puppet
7 2 (1.77%) Grafana
7 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Ambari
8 1 (0.88%) Terraform
8 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (100.00%) Oracle
2 52 (46.02%) Microsoft
3 27 (23.89%) VMware
4 7 (6.19%) Delphix
5 4 (3.54%) HP
5 4 (3.54%) IBM
6 3 (2.65%) IFS
6 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.65%) Snow
6 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.77%) SAP
7 2 (1.77%) Sybase
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Citrix
8 1 (0.88%) Siemens
8 1 (0.88%) Software AG
8 1 (0.88%) Splunk
8 1 (0.88%) webMethods