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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 248 297
Rank change year-on-year +13 +49 +23
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 39 11 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.15% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.98% 0.84% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 34 10 46
10th Percentile £43,275 £45,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,375 £46,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £59,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,600 £58,875 £70,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +1.82% -

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 981 1,302 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.15% 18.12% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 564 782 1,851
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £44,688 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +22 32 £58,000 +10.48%
Surrey - 3 - -
Thames Valley - 3 £43,250 - 7
Buckinghamshire - 2 £42,500 - 2
Kent -21 1 £55,000 - 2
Berkshire - 1 £44,000 - 5
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 23 (58.97%) Exchange Server 2003
1 23 (58.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) JBoss
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.56%) OCI
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) DHCP
1 22 (56.41%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) SMTP
2 1 (2.56%) X.400
2 1 (2.56%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (71.79%) Oracle Database 10g
2 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.13%) Apache Hive
6 2 (5.13%) Impala
6 2 (5.13%) Parquet
6 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Tableau
7 1 (2.56%) Metadata
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI
7 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (5.13%) Ranorex
2 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) JUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Advertising
4 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (58.97%) 3rd Line Support
1 23 (58.97%) Systems Support
2 5 (12.82%) Administrator
3 4 (10.26%) DBA
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Software Tester
5 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Systems Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Tester
5 2 (5.13%) Transformation Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Solaris Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) PySpark
2 2 (5.13%) XML
2 2 (5.13%) XSL
3 1 (2.56%) Jest
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) Swagger
3 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Replication
2 2 (5.13%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Windows
2 24 (61.54%) HPUX
2 24 (61.54%) Solaris
2 24 (61.54%) Unix
3 23 (58.97%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (56.41%) Windows 7
4 22 (56.41%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.13%) Linux
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Incident Management
2 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
4 4 (10.26%) Analytics
4 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (10.26%) Database Migration
4 4 (10.26%) Database Mirroring
4 4 (10.26%) ETL
4 4 (10.26%) High Availability
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (7.69%) Agile
5 3 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) Data Governance
6 2 (5.13%) Data Transformation
6 2 (5.13%) Master Data Management
6 2 (5.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 22 (56.41%) Perl
3 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) Python
5 3 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (64.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (58.97%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) MCSE
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) OCP
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (58.97%) SLA
2 3 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (58.97%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Oracle
2 29 (74.36%) Microsoft
3 23 (58.97%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) HP
5 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.56%) Siemens