Oracle Database Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 424 494
Rank change year-on-year -94 +70 -68
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 63 68 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.100% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.29% 1.59% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 45 37 121
10th Percentile £38,400 £44,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% - +4.55%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,886 4,266 11,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.72% 16.04% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 2,993 8,247
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,585 £31,825
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
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 Oracle Database within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
South East -16 31 £58,000 +10.48% 11
South West -41 12 £57,500 +4.55% 8
East of England -27 8 £60,000 - 1
North of England -73 6 £55,000 - 3
Midlands -56 4 £52,500 -11.02% 10
Yorkshire -62 4 - - 1
East Midlands -54 3 £52,500 -17.97% 3
Wales -28 2 £52,500 -
North West -38 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands -50 1 £38,000 -33.91% 7
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
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 14 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (14.29%) Apache
2 9 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) ColdFusion
3 2 (3.17%) JBoss
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.59%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) Primavera
2 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 9 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 9 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.35%) Azure
4 2 (3.17%) OCI
4 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.63%) DHCP
1 13 (20.63%) DNS
2 1 (1.59%) SMTP
2 1 (1.59%) X.400
2 1 (1.59%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) Oracle Database 10g
2 13 (20.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 9 (14.29%) Impala
3 9 (14.29%) Parquet
3 9 (14.29%) Spark SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Tableau
4 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.94%) MySQL
6 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.17%) Power BI
9 1 (1.59%) Metadata
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Git
2 9 (14.29%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (4.76%) Ranorex
3 3 (4.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.59%) GitLab
5 1 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (1.59%) JUnit
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 16 (25.40%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
3 9 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Legal
5 5 (7.94%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) 3rd Line Support
2 14 (22.22%) Systems Support
3 13 (20.63%) DBA
4 11 (17.46%) Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Administrator
5 9 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
5 9 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (14.29%) Transformation Analyst
6 7 (11.11%) Developer
7 6 (9.52%) Lead
8 5 (7.94%) Senior
8 5 (7.94%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (6.35%) Business Analyst
9 4 (6.35%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) IT Support
10 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) PySpark
2 5 (7.94%) Web Services
3 4 (6.35%) HTML
3 4 (6.35%) Pandas
3 4 (6.35%) REST
4 3 (4.76%) RESTful
4 3 (4.76%) XML
4 3 (4.76%) XSL
5 2 (3.17%) React
6 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.59%) CSS3
6 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.59%) HTML5
6 1 (1.59%) Java EE
6 1 (1.59%) JPA
6 1 (1.59%) JSON
6 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.59%) Swagger
6 1 (1.59%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Replication
2 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.86%) Windows
2 16 (25.40%) Unix
3 15 (23.81%) HPUX
3 15 (23.81%) Solaris
3 15 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (20.63%) Windows 7
6 10 (15.87%) Linux
7 6 (9.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (4.76%) AIX
8 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Agile
2 16 (25.40%) Incident Management
3 15 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.63%) Analytics
5 12 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (19.05%) ETL
5 12 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (15.87%) Data Governance
6 10 (15.87%) Data Transformation
6 10 (15.87%) Scrum
7 9 (14.29%) AI
7 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
9 7 (11.11%) High Availability
9 7 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (9.52%) ERP
10 6 (9.52%) ITIL
10 6 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) SQL
2 15 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.63%) Perl
3 13 (20.63%) Python
4 7 (11.11%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.76%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) Clojure
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (26.98%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CISSP
6 1 (1.59%) Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MCSE
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) OCP
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) SLA
2 11 (17.46%) Data Quality
3 8 (12.70%) GDPR
4 5 (7.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (7.94%) HIPAA
5 3 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle Clusterware
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) Nagios
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.17%) Puppet
6 1 (1.59%) Kibana
6 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
3 14 (22.22%) VMware
4 10 (15.87%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.35%) IFS
6 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) HP
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) Siemens