Oracle RAC Job Trends in England

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 720 655 759
Rank change year-on-year -65 +104 -14
Permanent jobs citing Oracle RAC 19 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.020% 0.009% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.36% 0.071% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 4
10th Percentile - £53,000 £51,050
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,375 £61,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +11.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £126,000 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +11.60%

All System Software Skills
England

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,286 5,643 7,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.63% 12.92% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,907 3,550 5,583
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Oracle RAC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in England

Oracle RAC
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle RAC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle RAC in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle RAC in England

Oracle RAC
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 RAC within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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 -35 14 £75,000 -46.43% 4
Yorkshire -25 3 - - 2
North of England -49 3 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Oracle RAC
UK

Oracle RAC
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 1 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 12 (63.16%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (84.21%) Oracle Database
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.26%) GIS
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
General
1 12 (63.16%) Banking
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) German Language
3 1 (5.26%) Police
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) DBA
1 16 (84.21%) Oracle DBA
2 12 (63.16%) Senior
3 11 (57.89%) Senior DBA
3 11 (57.89%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (5.26%) Java SE
2 1 (5.26%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) AIX
2 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Unix
3 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) ITIL
2 13 (68.42%) High Availability
2 13 (68.42%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (63.16%) Change Management
3 12 (63.16%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (63.16%) Incident Response
4 11 (57.89%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (57.89%) Configuration Management
4 11 (57.89%) Runbook
4 11 (57.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Release Management
6 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 14 (73.68%) PL/SQL
2 14 (73.68%) Shell Script
3 13 (68.42%) Bash
3 13 (68.42%) Korn
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Clusterware
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Data Guard
2 15 (78.95%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (57.89%) Nagios
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Ansible
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (57.89%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) VMware