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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 655 812
Rank change year-on-year -17 +157 +67
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 12c 9 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.009% 0.023%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% 0.048% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 16
10th Percentile £51,225 - £48,375
25th Percentile £54,375 £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +11.63%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +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 6,855 8,261 15,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 18.74% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 5,200 12,242
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 9 March 2026.

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 9 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
England +1 9 £60,000 -20.00% 8
UK excluding London -6 6 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Work from Home - 5 £60,000 - 2
South East - 5 £60,000 - 3
London - 3 £67,500 - 2
North of England -26 1 £50,500 -32.67% 3
North West - 1 £50,500 - 2

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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (11.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle Database 10g
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (11.11%) Power BI
6 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (11.11%) Advertising
1 1 (11.11%) German Language
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
1 5 (55.56%) DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Database Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
1 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (55.56%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) Database Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) PLM
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Korn
4 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Data Guard
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Siemens