Oracle Database Job Trends in the North West

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 200 177
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 +103
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 7 36 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.13% 3.94% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 24
10th Percentile £48,275 £42,500 £33,048
25th Percentile £48,313 £43,710 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -10.00% +27.16%
75th Percentile £53,313 £56,938 £62,813
90th Percentile £53,425 £63,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 618 914 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.08% 12.94% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 374 433 715
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the North West

Oracle Database
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cheshire -17 5 - -
Merseyside -1 2 £50,750 +12.78% 1
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (42.86%) Mule
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle