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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 252 308
Rank change year-on-year -18 +56 +33
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 13 7 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.090% 0.098% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 0.61% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 32
10th Percentile £31,250 £44,750 £31,875
25th Percentile £34,875 £46,250 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57,813 £58,750 £68,875
90th Percentile £61,375 £63,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +4.55%

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 1,128 1,150 2,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.77% 16.18% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 662 729 1,989
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -1.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

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 May 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 May 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 -31 5 £33,500 -36.19%
Thames Valley - 4 £43,250 - 3
Surrey - 3 - -
Berkshire - 2 £64,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £42,500 -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
1 2 (15.38%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Hive
3 2 (15.38%) Impala
3 2 (15.38%) Parquet
3 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Ranorex
2 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (15.38%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) XSL
3 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Java EE
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) JMS
4 1 (7.69%) JPA
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
2 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Document Management
4 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) OOP
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) OCP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens