Oracle Database Job Trends in the South East

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 283 272
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 10 10 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.057% 0.11% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.75% 0.84% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile £29,600 £27,250 £52,738
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42,750 £58,750 £68,500
90th Percentile £60,250 £61,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,338 1,194 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.58% 13.19% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 639 1,318
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,793
Median % change year-on-year - +0.38% -4.71%
75th Percentile £71,063 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the South East

Oracle Database
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the South East over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database in the South East

Oracle Database
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Hampshire -54 5 £32,500 -37.50%
Thames Valley - 5 £63,750 - 3
Berkshire - 4 £85,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £42,500 -
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Ranorex
2 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) DBA
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared DBA
1 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Software Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Software Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XSL
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (10.00%) JMS
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Database Security
2 2 (20.00%) Document Management
2 2 (20.00%) OCR
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) OOP
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) IBM