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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 177 184
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +87
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 6 28 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.095% 0.55% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 3.68% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 10
10th Percentile £48,300 £42,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £48,375 £43,408 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £48,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -3.25% +30.25%
75th Percentile £55,500 £61,250 £59,063
90th Percentile £56,700 £62,000 £64,350
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% +4.55%

All Database & 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 490 761 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.79% 14.90% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 373 380 654
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 7 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
Cheshire -14 3 - - 1
Merseyside 0 2 £50,750 +12.78%
Cumbria - 1 £55,000 - 2
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 (50.00%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle