OCI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OCI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 408 520
Rank change year-on-year -103 +112 -85
Permanent jobs citing OCI 71 118 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 1.37% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 44 51 103
10th Percentile £46,250 - £47,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £62,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £75,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.41% +27.12% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £76,875
90th Percentile £83,500 £110,000 £89,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £75,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year -18.00% +6.38% +17.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,175 8,615 22,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.25% 29.47% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9,542 5,940 17,413
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,625 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,686 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% +7.37% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

OCI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OCI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OCI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OCI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OCI

OCI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OCI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for OCI in the UK excluding London

OCI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -35 27 £48,445 -25.47% 10
Yorkshire -30 16 £64,222 -14.37% 2
Scotland +4 14 £40,800 -45.60% 4
South East -61 10 £65,000 -10.34% 12
South West -58 8 £70,000 -17.89% 4
North West +5 7 £48,445 -35.41% 5
East of England -9 5 £92,500 +29.82%
Northern Ireland -37 5 £60,000 - 2
North East -46 4 £48,445 -25.47% 4
Midlands -46 2 £54,500 -31.88% 8
West Midlands -51 2 £54,500 -29.68% 3
OCI
UK

OCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (8.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) Azure
2 27 (38.03%) AWS
3 13 (18.31%) Entra ID
4 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.90%) GitHub
5 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (7.04%) GCP
8 4 (5.63%) PaaS
9 2 (2.82%) IaaS
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.41%) SaaS
10 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.13%) Firewall
2 13 (18.31%) NGFW
3 12 (16.90%) VXLAN
3 12 (16.90%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (16.90%) Wireshark
4 3 (4.23%) Network Security
5 2 (2.82%) VPN
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.41%) LAN
6 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Power BI
2 6 (8.45%) Tableau
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (16.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.27%) JIRA
4 6 (8.45%) Git
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 31 (43.66%) Finance
2 20 (28.17%) Public Sector
3 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.23%) Aviation
6 3 (4.23%) Law
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Network Manager
3 13 (18.31%) Senior
4 12 (16.90%) Applications Engineer
4 12 (16.90%) Lead
4 12 (16.90%) Network Operations Manager
4 12 (16.90%) Operations Manager
5 11 (15.49%) Consultant
5 11 (15.49%) Oracle Consultant
6 9 (12.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (11.27%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) IT Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) RESTful
2 6 (8.45%) JSON
2 6 (8.45%) OAuth
2 6 (8.45%) OAuth2
2 6 (8.45%) SAML
2 6 (8.45%) SOAP
2 6 (8.45%) XML
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.94%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (18.31%) Cloud Native
3 12 (16.90%) Data Centre
3 12 (16.90%) PKI
4 6 (8.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.41%) AIX
2 1 (1.41%) Solaris
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) Coaching
2 26 (36.62%) Mentoring
3 25 (35.21%) ERP
4 19 (26.76%) Agile
5 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (19.72%) Network Monitoring
5 14 (19.72%) Test Automation
6 13 (18.31%) DevOps
6 13 (18.31%) ITSM
6 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.90%) API Integration
7 12 (16.90%) Asset Management
7 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (16.90%) Creative Thinking
7 12 (16.90%) Load Balancing
7 12 (16.90%) RBAC
8 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (14.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.03%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) SQL
3 16 (22.54%) PL/SQL
4 12 (16.90%) Java
4 12 (16.90%) Shell Script
5 7 (9.86%) Bash
6 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.23%) Degree
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) CFA
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.41%) PMP
5 1 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.82%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (35.21%) Terraform
2 17 (23.94%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (18.31%) Ansible
4 1 (1.41%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 51 (71.83%) Oracle
2 12 (16.90%) Arista
2 12 (16.90%) Aruba
2 12 (16.90%) NetScout
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) Okta
5 5 (7.04%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.23%) Google
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.41%) Cisco
8 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.41%) Foundry
8 1 (1.41%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.41%) Jitterbit
8 1 (1.41%) Palantir
8 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.41%) Siemens
8 1 (1.41%) SnapLogic