Oracle Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 116 107
Rank change year-on-year -31 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Oracle 661 692 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.25% 2.47% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 4.78% 6.48% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 400 374 933
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,015 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,244 £47,500 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £74,625 £73,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,828 10,683 21,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.08% 38.17% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,352 6,166 16,744
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,512
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +11.96% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,211 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,725 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Oracle
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Oracle
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East -9 195 £60,000 - 115
Midlands -5 158 £57,625 -3.96% 75
North of England -84 124 £63,750 +10.87% 71
West Midlands -2 106 £60,000 - 51
Scotland +13 83 £57,500 -13.36% 24
North West -50 73 £62,500 +8.70% 32
East Midlands -2 52 £52,500 -8.70% 23
South West -60 48 £62,500 -13.18% 31
Yorkshire -36 45 £60,000 +2.13% 30
East of England +25 39 £42,175 -15.65% 32
Wales 0 11 £52,500 -43.24% 5
North East -33 6 £65,000 +20.93% 9
Northern Ireland -36 3 £70,000 +33.33% 1
Oracle
UK

Oracle
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 28 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.48%) Exchange Server 2003
3 18 (2.72%) Apache
3 18 (2.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 14 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.97%) Confluence
6 9 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (1.21%) SAS
7 8 (1.21%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.91%) IIS
8 6 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.45%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.45%) FileNet
9 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.45%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.30%) CICS
10 2 (0.30%) JBoss
Applications
1 28 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.82%) Oracle Smart View
4 8 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (7.87%) Oracle ERP
2 51 (7.72%) Oracle Payables
3 43 (6.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 40 (6.05%) Oracle Assets
5 35 (5.30%) Oracle EBS
6 28 (4.24%) Oracle Financials
6 28 (4.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 25 (3.78%) NetSuite
8 17 (2.57%) Oracle Cash Management
9 16 (2.42%) Oracle EBS R12
10 10 (1.51%) Hyperion Planning
11 8 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
11 8 (1.21%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (1.21%) Teamcenter
12 6 (0.91%) Workday HCM
13 3 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.45%) Primavera
13 3 (0.45%) Sage X3
13 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
14 2 (0.30%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 79 (11.95%) AWS
2 77 (11.65%) Azure
3 66 (9.98%) OCI
4 57 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 38 (5.75%) GitHub
6 32 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.84%) SaaS
7 18 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 18 (2.72%) GCP
8 16 (2.42%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 14 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (2.12%) Snowflake
10 13 (1.97%) PaaS
11 11 (1.66%) Boomi
11 11 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.63%) DNS
2 22 (3.33%) DHCP
3 14 (2.12%) Telepresence
3 14 (2.12%) Unified Communications
3 14 (2.12%) VoIP
3 14 (2.12%) WebEx
4 3 (0.45%) SAN
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) Firewall
5 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.30%) SMTP
5 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.15%) NAS
6 1 (0.15%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.15%) SSL
6 1 (0.15%) X.400
6 1 (0.15%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (12.25%) SQL Server
2 77 (11.65%) Oracle Database
3 54 (8.17%) Power BI
4 43 (6.51%) Oracle Reports
5 40 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (5.60%) Relational Database
7 29 (4.39%) OLTP
7 29 (4.39%) Oracle Database 10g
8 27 (4.08%) Tableau
9 23 (3.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 20 (3.03%) MySQL
11 15 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (1.82%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.51%) Essbase
14 9 (1.36%) Apache Hive
14 9 (1.36%) Impala
14 9 (1.36%) Parquet
14 9 (1.36%) Spark SQL
15 8 (1.21%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (9.23%) Oracle Forms
2 58 (8.77%) Git
3 45 (6.81%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.14%) JIRA
5 24 (3.63%) GitLab
5 24 (3.63%) JUnit
6 15 (2.27%) Oracle APEX
7 13 (1.97%) Selenium
8 12 (1.82%) Maven
9 10 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.51%) Mockito
10 9 (1.36%) IBM UrbanCode
11 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.76%) JMeter
11 5 (0.76%) TestNG
12 4 (0.61%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.45%) Gradle
13 3 (0.45%) Postman
14 2 (0.30%) ESLint
General
1 247 (37.37%) Finance
2 167 (25.26%) Social Skills
3 109 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.60%) Law
5 32 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 32 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.24%) Retail
7 27 (4.08%) Marketing
8 24 (3.63%) Legal
9 18 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.57%) General Ledger
10 17 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.42%) Banking
12 15 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.97%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.21%) Electronics
14 8 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 131 (19.82%) Senior
2 130 (19.67%) Developer
3 106 (16.04%) Analyst
4 68 (10.29%) Lead
5 56 (8.47%) Senior Developer
6 54 (8.17%) Oracle Developer
7 53 (8.02%) Oracle Analyst
8 38 (5.75%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 34 (5.14%) Architect
10 33 (4.99%) Applications Engineer
11 32 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (4.69%) Consultant
13 30 (4.54%) Support Analyst
14 28 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.08%) Systems Support
16 26 (3.93%) 3rd Line Support
16 26 (3.93%) PL/SQL Developer
16 26 (3.93%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
16 26 (3.93%) Senior SQL Developer
16 26 (3.93%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 47 (7.11%) XML
3 45 (6.81%) SOAP
4 39 (5.90%) HTML
5 36 (5.45%) REST
6 35 (5.30%) RESTful
7 31 (4.69%) JSON
8 22 (3.33%) Spring
9 18 (2.72%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.27%) OAuth
10 15 (2.27%) React
11 14 (2.12%) OAuth2
12 13 (1.97%) CSS
13 12 (1.82%) .NET
13 12 (1.82%) SAML
14 11 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.66%) PySpark
15 10 (1.51%) WinForms
16 9 (1.36%) Kafka
16 9 (1.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.32%) Enterprise Software
2 32 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.51%) Replication
9 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.76%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.61%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.45%) CMDB
14 3 (0.45%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 3 (0.45%) NHS
14 3 (0.45%) PMI
14 3 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.77%) Windows
2 45 (6.81%) Linux
3 34 (5.14%) Unix
4 24 (3.63%) HPUX
4 24 (3.63%) Solaris
4 24 (3.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 24 (3.63%) Windows Server 2008
5 23 (3.48%) Windows 7
6 11 (1.66%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.45%) AIX
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
2 147 (22.24%) ERP
3 125 (18.91%) Agile
4 99 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (11.80%) CI/CD
7 75 (11.35%) Analytics
8 69 (10.44%) Mentoring
9 67 (10.14%) DevOps
10 63 (9.53%) Test Automation
11 62 (9.38%) AI
11 62 (9.38%) Migration
12 58 (8.77%) Coaching
13 56 (8.47%) Asset Management
13 56 (8.47%) Root Cause Analysis
14 54 (8.17%) Roadmaps
15 49 (7.41%) Data Modelling
16 48 (7.26%) Process Improvement
17 47 (7.11%) ETL
18 44 (6.66%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 254 (38.43%) SQL
2 105 (15.89%) Python
3 100 (15.13%) PL/SQL
4 97 (14.67%) Java
5 56 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 36 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 33 (4.99%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.63%) Perl
9 22 (3.33%) C#
10 16 (2.42%) Delphi
11 15 (2.27%) Bash
12 10 (1.51%) Groovy
12 10 (1.51%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.21%) PHP
13 8 (1.21%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.91%) C
15 5 (0.76%) R
16 4 (0.61%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.61%) Scala
17 1 (0.15%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 80 (12.10%) Degree
2 63 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.91%) ACCA
9 6 (0.91%) CIMA
9 6 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.61%) CIPFA
10 4 (0.61%) PMP
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.45%) MBA
11 3 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.08%) SLA
3 23 (3.48%) GDPR
4 22 (3.33%) QA
5 6 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) GMP
8 1 (0.15%) IFRS
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (6.96%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.69%) Docker
3 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Clusterware
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (4.39%) Terraform
2 28 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.12%) Cisco CUCM
5 12 (1.82%) Grafana
6 7 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (0.91%) Control-M
8 5 (0.76%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.61%) Ansible
9 4 (0.61%) Kibana
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
10 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.15%) Graylog
12 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.32%) SAP
3 28 (4.24%) VMware
4 24 (3.63%) Informatica
5 16 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.42%) Workday
6 15 (2.27%) IBM
6 15 (2.27%) IFS
7 14 (2.12%) Cisco
7 14 (2.12%) Hyperion
7 14 (2.12%) Okta
8 13 (1.97%) Google
9 11 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.66%) Talend
10 10 (1.51%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.51%) Epicor
11 9 (1.36%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.06%) Adobe
12 7 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.91%) Siemens