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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 780 658 746
Rank change year-on-year -122 +88 -14
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Certification 21 23 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.047% 0.059%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 14
10th Percentile - £46,000 £65,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,850 £65,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% +56.10%
75th Percentile £71,875 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £108,599 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.99% +27.62%

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 19,812 16,830 20,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.96% 34.30% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,850 7,568 10,458
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £36,925 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £74,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.56% -7.62% -

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 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
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 Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 -102 21 £65,000 - 48
UK excluding London -103 11 £60,000 -7.69% 36
London -57 10 £76,250 -10.29% 29
Work from Home -45 8 £55,000 -10.20% 52
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 -
Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 4
South West - 5 £60,000 -

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 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (4.76%) HFM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) OCI
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle CX
2 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (14.29%) ZAP BI
5 2 (9.52%) Metadata
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.76%) Flink
6 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.76%) Looker
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI
6 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) GitLab
2 6 (28.57%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 3 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) JUnit
3 3 (14.29%) NUnit
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (14.29%) Postman
3 3 (14.29%) Selenium
3 3 (14.29%) Snyk
3 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
5 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (19.05%) Military
6 2 (9.52%) Law
7 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.76%) Banking
7 1 (4.76%) German Language
7 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (19.05%) QA Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior QA Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Database Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Principal Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Principal Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) IT Governance Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (23.81%) RESTful
3 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (14.29%) .NET
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 3 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (14.29%) pytest
4 3 (14.29%) React
5 2 (9.52%) Kafka
6 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (4.76%) Spring
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 7 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (33.33%) Validation
5 6 (28.57%) ERP
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (28.57%) SOA
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) Data Management
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (19.05%) API Management
7 4 (19.05%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) Go
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (9.52%) Korn
6 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) OCP
3 5 (23.81%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) OCA
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CISA
5 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) CRISC
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PhD
5 1 (4.76%) Postgraduate
5 1 (4.76%) RHCE
5 1 (4.76%) RHCSA
5 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 5 (23.81%) GDPR
3 3 (14.29%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (4.76%) COBIT
4 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Grafana
2 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Data Guard
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) Workday
4 3 (14.29%) Infor
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) Hyperion
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Sparx