Oracle Job Trends in the South East

Oracle
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 74 100
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 -8
Permanent jobs citing Oracle 178 332 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.73% 3.67% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 5.53% 9.91% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 124 153 154
10th Percentile £42,150 £38,750 £35,375
25th Percentile £55,938 £46,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.61% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,408 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.46% -3.35% +0.81%

All Vendors
South East

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,221 3,350 3,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.22% 37.03% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,782 1,759 2,617
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,500 £62,000
90th Percentile £78,480 £80,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the South East

Oracle
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle

Oracle
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley +30 92 £70,000 +7.69% 62
Berkshire +15 61 £70,000 +3.70% 35
Hampshire -21 59 £58,000 +14.85% 19
Oxfordshire +32 19 £85,000 +78.95% 15
Buckinghamshire +6 12 £51,250 -32.79% 13
Kent -18 8 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Surrey -11 7 £45,000 -21.74% 11
West Sussex -11 6 £60,000 +50.00% 8
Home Counties -1 1 £80,000 +33.33%
Oracle
England

Oracle
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 26 (14.61%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.12%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (11.80%) NetSuite
2 17 (9.55%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (6.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 9 (5.06%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (5.06%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (3.93%) Teamcenter
6 6 (3.37%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (1.12%) SAP PLM
9 2 (1.12%) SAP QM
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle AGIS
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.06%) AWS
2 8 (4.49%) Azure
3 7 (3.93%) Boomi
3 7 (3.93%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.37%) OCI
5 4 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.69%) SaaS
6 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.12%) GitHub
7 2 (1.12%) iPaaS
7 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.12%) Workato
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.92%) DNS
2 22 (12.36%) DHCP
3 4 (2.25%) SMTP
3 4 (2.25%) X.400
3 4 (2.25%) X.500
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.56%) NAS
4 1 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.03%) Oracle Database
2 31 (17.42%) Oracle Database 10g
3 26 (14.61%) OLTP
4 16 (8.99%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.87%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.93%) Power BI
8 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.81%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
10 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.12%) DB2
12 2 (1.12%) Metadata
12 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (1.12%) Pentaho
12 2 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.12%) JIRA
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.12%) Ranorex
3 2 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.56%) Gradle
4 1 (0.56%) JMeter
4 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 63 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 55 (30.90%) Finance
3 37 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.43%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.25%) Law
7 4 (2.25%) Police
7 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.69%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (25.84%) Developer
2 39 (21.91%) Senior
3 35 (19.66%) Oracle Developer
4 33 (18.54%) Senior Developer
4 33 (18.54%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 27 (15.17%) Systems Support
6 23 (12.92%) 3rd Line Support
6 23 (12.92%) Lead
7 15 (8.43%) PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (8.43%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (8.43%) Senior SQL Developer
7 15 (8.43%) SQL Developer
8 13 (7.30%) Analyst
9 12 (6.74%) Oracle Specialist
10 11 (6.18%) Support Specialist
11 9 (5.06%) Systems Analyst
12 7 (3.93%) Applications Support
12 7 (3.93%) NetSuite Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (12.92%) HTML
3 15 (8.43%) JSON
4 14 (7.87%) SOAP
4 14 (7.87%) XML
5 6 (3.37%) EDI
5 6 (3.37%) REST
6 4 (2.25%) Middleware
7 2 (1.12%) .NET
7 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) Spring
7 2 (1.12%) XSL
8 1 (0.56%) Drools
8 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.56%) Memcached
8 1 (0.56%) OAuth
8 1 (0.56%) React
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.56%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.06%) Replication
3 8 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.37%) FMCG
5 5 (2.81%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.12%) PMI
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.98%) Unix
2 31 (17.42%) Windows
3 27 (15.17%) Solaris
4 26 (14.61%) HPUX
4 26 (14.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 22 (12.36%) Windows 7
5 22 (12.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (3.37%) Linux
7 3 (1.69%) AIX
8 1 (0.56%) Android
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (16.29%) ERP
4 28 (15.73%) Incident Management
5 21 (11.80%) Change Management
6 18 (10.11%) Configuration Management
7 17 (9.55%) Agile
8 14 (7.87%) Issue Tracking
8 14 (7.87%) Software Testing
9 13 (7.30%) AI
9 13 (7.30%) Clean Code
9 13 (7.30%) ITIL
9 13 (7.30%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (6.18%) Analytics
11 10 (5.62%) Accounts Payable
11 10 (5.62%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (5.62%) ETL
11 10 (5.62%) Process Improvement
12 9 (5.06%) Revenue Recognition
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.64%) SQL
2 35 (19.66%) PL/SQL
3 31 (17.42%) PowerShell
4 23 (12.92%) Perl
5 18 (10.11%) Java
6 16 (8.99%) Python
7 15 (8.43%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.81%) C#
9 4 (2.25%) VBA
10 3 (1.69%) Bash
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.73%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.55%) Degree
5 7 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.81%) ACCA
6 5 (2.81%) CIMA
7 4 (2.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) MCSE
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.12%) OCP
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CFA
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.48%) SLA
2 7 (3.93%) GDPR
3 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (14.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.25%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Netcool
2 3 (1.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.17%) VMware
3 11 (6.18%) JD Edwards
4 10 (5.62%) Informatica
4 10 (5.62%) SAP
5 7 (3.93%) IBM
6 6 (3.37%) Workday
7 5 (2.81%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.25%) Adaptive Insights
8 4 (2.25%) Dell
8 4 (2.25%) HP
8 4 (2.25%) Siemens
8 4 (2.25%) Talend
9 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.69%) Snow
9 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.12%) SnapLogic
10 2 (1.12%) Splunk