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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 554 545
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 95 70 278
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.37% 1.05% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 58 43 149
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,375 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +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 6,942 6,672 14,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.64% 17.36% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,682 11,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +41 53 £60,000 -15.79% 18
South West -40 14 £60,000 -7.69% 10
South East -26 12 £42,500 -19.05% 11
East of England -11 8 £60,000 - 1
North of England -69 6 £55,000 - 3
North West -32 3 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire -61 3 - - 1
Midlands -58 2 £45,250 -23.31% 10
West Midlands -32 1 £38,000 -33.91% 7
East Midlands -48 1 £52,500 -17.97% 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 (26.32%) Apache
1 25 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (26.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) JBoss
2 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.05%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (2.11%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.05%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) AWS
2 26 (27.37%) OpenShift
3 25 (26.32%) Amazon S3
4 16 (16.84%) Azure
5 3 (3.16%) OCI
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.05%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.05%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.05%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.05%) Serverless
6 1 (1.05%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 25 (26.32%) Apache Hive
2 25 (26.32%) Impala
2 25 (26.32%) Parquet
2 25 (26.32%) Spark SQL
2 25 (26.32%) Tableau
3 17 (17.89%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.37%) MySQL
5 7 (7.37%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (3.16%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.11%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (2.11%) Sybase IQ
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.05%) Metadata
10 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.05%) Power BI
10 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (34.74%) Git
2 25 (26.32%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (5.26%) JIRA
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.16%) Ranorex
4 3 (3.16%) Selenium
4 3 (3.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.11%) GitLab
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.05%) TestRail
6 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.05%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (49.47%) Finance
2 34 (35.79%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (34.74%) Banking
4 24 (25.26%) Investment Banking
5 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
6 12 (12.63%) Legal
7 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.32%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) German Language
8 2 (2.11%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Advertising
9 1 (1.05%) Billing
9 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Analyst
2 23 (24.21%) Transformation Analyst
3 22 (23.16%) Banking Analyst
4 21 (22.11%) DBA
5 19 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
6 14 (14.74%) Business Analyst
7 13 (13.68%) Data Engineer
8 12 (12.63%) Data Business Analyst
8 12 (12.63%) Technical Analyst
9 11 (11.58%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 10 (10.53%) Lead
11 7 (7.37%) Developer
11 7 (7.37%) Senior
12 6 (6.32%) Administrator
12 6 (6.32%) Database Engineer
12 6 (6.32%) Test Leader
13 5 (5.26%) MySQL DBA
13 5 (5.26%) Senior DBA
14 4 (4.21%) Applications Specialist
14 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.32%) PySpark
2 13 (13.68%) Pandas
3 6 (6.32%) REST
3 6 (6.32%) Web Services
4 3 (3.16%) HTML
4 3 (3.16%) Middleware
4 3 (3.16%) SOAP
4 3 (3.16%) XML
4 3 (3.16%) XSL
5 2 (2.11%) React
6 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.05%) Jest
6 1 (1.05%) JMS
6 1 (1.05%) Kafka
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.05%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.05%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (6.32%) Replication
2 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.16%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Linux
2 15 (15.79%) Windows
3 11 (11.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.42%) Unix
5 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.32%) AIX
6 6 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (49.47%) Agile
2 40 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 40 (42.11%) ETL
3 39 (41.05%) Data Pipeline
4 38 (40.00%) Analytics
5 30 (31.58%) User Acceptance Testing
6 29 (30.53%) Scrum
6 29 (30.53%) Translating Business Requirements
7 27 (28.42%) Data Governance
8 25 (26.32%) AI
8 25 (26.32%) Data Engineering
8 25 (26.32%) Data Transformation
9 20 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (17.89%) Runbook
12 15 (15.79%) Decision-Making
12 15 (15.79%) Validation
13 14 (14.74%) Data Validation
13 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (13.68%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) SQL
2 31 (32.63%) Python
3 13 (13.68%) PL/SQL
4 9 (9.47%) Java
5 7 (7.37%) Bash
5 7 (7.37%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.32%) Clojure
6 6 (6.32%) Korn
7 4 (4.21%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) Perl
9 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.21%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) OCP
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) MCSE
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (38.95%) Data Quality
2 25 (26.32%) GDPR
3 12 (12.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (12.63%) HIPAA
4 6 (6.32%) QA
5 2 (2.11%) SLA
6 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.16%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Oracle Clusterware
3 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.63%) Data Guard
2 10 (10.53%) Ansible
3 8 (8.42%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (6.32%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.32%) Puppet
5 5 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (4.21%) Nagios
7 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.11%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (1.05%) Grafana
9 1 (1.05%) Kibana
9 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 95 (100.00%) Oracle
2 27 (28.42%) Red Hat
3 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.32%) IFS
5 5 (5.26%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.11%) Splunk
6 2 (2.11%) Sybase
7 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.05%) Globalscape
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) Siemens
7 1 (1.05%) VMware