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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 278 221
Rank change year-on-year +6 -57 +100
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 18 49 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.42% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.70% 2.63% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 52
10th Percentile £27,250 £42,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,391 £38,098
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £59,500 £64,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,700 £65,406 £63,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -

All Database and 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 1,060 1,861 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.85% 16.07% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 587 1,052 1,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,668 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -0.60% -
75th Percentile £69,102 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,350
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 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 18 October 2025.

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 18 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
Hampshire +61 17 £56,500 -24.67% 5
Thames Valley -15 1 £47,000 -20.51% 7
Berkshire -18 1 £47,000 -20.51% 2
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 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DHCP
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) SMTP
2 3 (16.67%) X.400
2 3 (16.67%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Systems Support
2 6 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Junior
3 3 (16.67%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Unix
2 10 (55.56%) Solaris
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (50.00%) HPUX
4 7 (38.89%) Windows 7
4 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (27.78%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Database Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.56%) Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (38.89%) Perl
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) MCSE
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) OCP
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Netcool
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
3 10 (55.56%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) HP
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (16.67%) Snow
4 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds