Oracle Database 12c Job Trends

Oracle Database 12c
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Oracle Database 12c skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 709 680
Rank change year-on-year +69 -29 +274
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 8 38 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.055% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 50
10th Percentile £48,425 £50,594 £51,125
25th Percentile £48,688 £53,688 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £65,230 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,452 £72,433
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database 12c 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,866 10,940 12,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.05% 15.75% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,279 6,232 9,569
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,475
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%

Oracle Database 12c
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Oracle Database 12c relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Database 12c job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 12c.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database 12c

Oracle Database 12c
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database 12c over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database 12c within the UK over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
England +77 8 £60,000 +1.48% 5
UK excluding London +53 7 £60,000 +1.48% 3
Work from Home +55 5 £52,500 -14.99% 2
North of England +16 5 £75,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £80,000 -
South East +28 2 £60,000 +1.48% 2
North West +8 2 £50,750 - 1

Oracle Database 12c
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (37.50%) BPM Developer
2 3 (37.50%) DBA
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (37.50%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Database Mirroring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) BPEL
3 1 (12.50%) BPMN
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) OCA
1 1 (12.50%) OCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft