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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 790 660 750
Rank change year-on-year -130 +90 -54
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 7 5 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.010% 0.059%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.079% 0.070% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £48,600 £50,594
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £53,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £59,125
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.85% -0.21%
75th Percentile £80,938 £80,000 £65,230
90th Percentile £89,375 - £65,452
UK excluding London median annual salary - £77,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year - +31.08% +7.50%

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 8,907 7,146 11,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.67% 14.55% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,499 7,091
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database 12c in the UK

Oracle Database 12c
Top 5 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 21 September 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 -110 7 £62,500 -16.67% 15
London - 5 £62,500 - 10
UK excluding London -114 2 - - 9
South East - 2 - - 7
Work from Home -47 1 - - 8

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 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (28.57%) SQLPlus
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (42.86%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (28.57%) Toad
4 1 (14.29%) Flyway
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) German Language
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Database Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) JVM Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Data Guard
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle