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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 552 439
Rank change year-on-year +61 -113 +35
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 121 163 246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 1.69% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 96 59 182
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,140 £36,275
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,922 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,800 £87,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +9.09%

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 5,994 9,669 9,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.18% 17.37% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,975 5,633 7,615
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,017 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -4.00%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +74 40 £50,000 -20.32% 28
South East +48 38 £58,000 +1.75% 39
Midlands +20 12 £42,500 -7.32% 26
East of England - 11 £40,000 - 17
North of England -1 10 £55,000 +21.62% 24
South West +19 9 £60,000 -29.62% 12
North West +18 7 £51,000 +5.43% 12
East Midlands +18 7 £52,500 -0.94% 9
West Midlands +15 5 £42,500 -1.16% 15
Yorkshire -11 3 £80,000 +76.04% 11
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 (21.49%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (21.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.96%) Mule
3 4 (3.31%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.48%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.48%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.65%) IIS
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.48%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.48%) Primavera
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.53%) AWS
1 20 (16.53%) Azure
2 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (4.96%) SaaS
4 5 (4.13%) OCI
5 4 (3.31%) Boomi
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.65%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.65%) PaaS
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
8 1 (0.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.18%) DHCP
1 22 (18.18%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) SMTP
2 4 (3.31%) X.400
2 4 (3.31%) X.500
3 2 (1.65%) Extranet
3 2 (1.65%) Intranet
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.27%) Oracle Database 10g
2 25 (20.66%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.22%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (13.22%) Relational Database
4 13 (10.74%) Metadata
5 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (7.44%) Oracle Database 12c
7 8 (6.61%) Oracle Database 11g
7 8 (6.61%) Oracle Exadata
7 8 (6.61%) Power BI
8 5 (4.13%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.13%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.31%) MySQL
10 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.48%) Oracle Discoverer
11 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.83%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
2 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.48%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.65%) JMeter
4 2 (1.65%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.65%) Selenium
4 2 (1.65%) Subversion
4 2 (1.65%) TestRail
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) Git
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Finance
3 8 (6.61%) Banking
4 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.65%) Advertising
6 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Electronics
6 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.65%) Marketing
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.83%) Law
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (19.01%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (19.01%) Systems Support
2 15 (12.40%) Analyst
3 14 (11.57%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Architect
5 12 (9.92%) DBA
6 10 (8.26%) Administrator
6 10 (8.26%) Developer
6 10 (8.26%) Oracle Architect
7 8 (6.61%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.61%) Database Architect
7 8 (6.61%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.79%) ERP Analyst
8 7 (5.79%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) IT Support
9 6 (4.96%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.09%) Kafka
2 7 (5.79%) Middleware
2 7 (5.79%) REST
3 5 (4.13%) .NET
3 5 (4.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.31%) RESTful
5 3 (2.48%) HTML
5 3 (2.48%) ModSecurity
5 3 (2.48%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (2.48%) SOAP
5 3 (2.48%) Web Services
5 3 (2.48%) WebCenter
6 2 (1.65%) Playwright
6 2 (1.65%) Swagger
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.83%) JMS
7 1 (0.83%) LDAP
7 1 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Replication
2 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.65%) Clustering
4 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.40%) Windows
2 37 (30.58%) Unix
3 27 (22.31%) Solaris
3 27 (22.31%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (21.49%) HPUX
5 23 (19.01%) Windows 7
5 23 (19.01%) Windows Server 2008
6 21 (17.36%) Linux
7 4 (3.31%) AIX
7 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.31%) Incident Management
2 25 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.05%) Analytics
3 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (14.05%) ETL
3 17 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (11.57%) Data Engineering
5 14 (11.57%) ERP
5 14 (11.57%) Migration
6 13 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (10.74%) Data Architecture
6 13 (10.74%) Data Governance
6 13 (10.74%) Data Modelling
6 13 (10.74%) High Availability
7 12 (9.92%) Agile
7 12 (9.92%) Data Analysis
7 12 (9.92%) Data Management
7 12 (9.92%) Data Security
7 12 (9.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.36%) SQL
2 30 (24.79%) PowerShell
3 24 (19.83%) Perl
4 18 (14.88%) PL/SQL
5 16 (13.22%) Java
6 13 (10.74%) Python
7 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.48%) Bash
8 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 37 (30.58%) SC Cleared
3 30 (24.79%) DV Cleared
4 26 (21.49%) Degree
5 21 (17.36%) OCP
5 21 (17.36%) Oracle Certification
6 12 (9.92%) CISSP
6 12 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (9.92%) MCSE
6 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.66%) SLA
2 13 (10.74%) GDPR
3 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) QA
4 2 (1.65%) SEPA
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (24.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.44%) Docker
2 9 (7.44%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 10 (8.26%) Data Guard
3 9 (7.44%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (5.79%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.13%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) Grafana
6 3 (2.48%) Nagios
6 3 (2.48%) Netcool
6 3 (2.48%) Puppet
7 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Ambari
8 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.83%) Terraform
8 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (100.00%) Oracle
2 55 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 27 (22.31%) VMware
4 10 (8.26%) IFS
5 8 (6.61%) Delphix
6 4 (3.31%) Dell
6 4 (3.31%) HP
6 4 (3.31%) IBM
7 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.48%) Snow
7 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Citrix
9 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.83%) Software AG
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.83%) webMethods