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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 693 677
Rank change year-on-year +59 -16 +150
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 8 10 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.018% 0.076%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.10% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 36
10th Percentile £48,425 - £52,500
25th Percentile £48,688 £53,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -1.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,452 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £75,074
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% +20.00%

All Database & 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 6,577 9,676 11,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 17.83% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,189 5,427 8,552
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,495 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +1.87% -2.73%

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
Top 6 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 7 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
England +90 8 £57,500 -2.75% 3
Work from Home +60 7 £60,000 -2.84%
UK excluding London +56 7 £60,000 +1.48% 3
South East +26 5 £60,000 +1.48%
North of England - 2 £50,750 - 1
North West - 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Power BI
5 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Database Mirroring
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (12.50%) PLM
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Statistics
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Java
6 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) OCA
1 1 (12.50%) OCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
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 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Siemens