Oracle Certification Job Trends

Oracle Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 745 655 760
Rank change year-on-year -90 +105 +59
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Certification 28 24 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.049% 0.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 22
10th Percentile - £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% -0.17% +42.86%
75th Percentile £77,188 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £100,749 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +19.47% +7.62%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Oracle Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,487 17,247 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 34.90% 25.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,330 7,845 12,930
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Certification
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 31 July 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 -81 25 £65,000 -13.18% 10
London -33 15 £72,500 -14.71% 3
UK excluding London -77 10 £65,000 -3.70% 7
Work from Home -19 9 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Midlands -36 6 £60,000 +9.09% 2
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 -
South East -38 2 £80,000 -13.51% 1
South West - 2 £60,000 - 1

Oracle Certification
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 6 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (10.71%) Elite 3E
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (3.57%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (3.57%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) OCI
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle CX
3 4 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) Azure
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle Database
2 7 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) NUnit
5 1 (3.57%) Postman
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) Snyk
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
6 2 (7.14%) Billing
6 2 (7.14%) German Language
7 1 (3.57%) Advertising
7 1 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Functional Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.57%) pytest
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (35.71%) Validation
3 9 (32.14%) ERP
4 7 (25.00%) Migration
4 7 (25.00%) SDLC
5 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (21.43%) SOA
6 5 (17.86%) Code Quality
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Defect Management
7 4 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) SQL
2 15 (53.57%) PL/SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) Korn
4 4 (14.29%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) OCP
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) OCA
4 3 (10.71%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CISA
5 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CRISC
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PhD
5 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.57%) RHCE
5 1 (3.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) IFRS
4 1 (3.57%) COBIT
4 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Data Guard
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (92.86%) Oracle
2 6 (21.43%) Salesforce
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
3 4 (14.29%) Workday
4 3 (10.71%) Infor
5 2 (7.14%) Conga
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) Hyperion
6 1 (3.57%) IBM