Oracle Database Job Trends

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 597 545
Rank change year-on-year -30 -52 -32
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Database 105 65 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 0.90% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 57 45 176
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £38,315
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database 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 7,919 7,226 17,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.45% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,833 4,857 12,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,400 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Database
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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 -21 94 £57,000 -1.72% 45
London +17 54 £63,750 -17.74% 18
UK excluding London -65 41 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Work from Home +23 29 £53,750 -10.42% 24
South West -46 13 £57,500 +4.55% 6
South East -15 12 £42,500 -19.05% 18
East of England -8 8 £60,000 -
North of England -41 6 £55,000 - 6
North West +4 3 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Yorkshire -44 3 - - 1
East Midlands -26 1 - - 2
Wales -31 1 £52,500 - 1
Midlands -47 1 - - 2

Oracle Database
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 25 (23.81%) Apache
1 25 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (23.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.90%) JBoss
2 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.95%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.95%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.95%) WildFly
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.29%) AWS
2 26 (24.76%) OpenShift
3 25 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 16 (15.24%) Azure
5 3 (2.86%) OCI
6 2 (1.90%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.95%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (0.95%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.95%) GCP
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.95%) SaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Serverless
7 1 (0.95%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) FTP
2 1 (0.95%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.48%) SQL Server
2 25 (23.81%) Apache Hive
2 25 (23.81%) Impala
2 25 (23.81%) Parquet
2 25 (23.81%) Spark SQL
2 25 (23.81%) Tableau
3 17 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (15.24%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.67%) GIS
5 7 (6.67%) MySQL
5 7 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.90%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.90%) Sybase IQ
10 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (32.38%) Git
2 25 (23.81%) IBM UrbanCode
3 6 (5.71%) JIRA
4 5 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.86%) Ranorex
5 3 (2.86%) Selenium
5 3 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.90%) GitLab
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.95%) TestRail
7 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (52.38%) Finance
2 35 (33.33%) Banking
3 32 (30.48%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (22.86%) Investment Banking
5 23 (21.90%) Social Skills
6 12 (11.43%) Legal
7 7 (6.67%) Retail
8 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.90%) German Language
10 2 (1.90%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Analyst
2 25 (23.81%) DBA
3 23 (21.90%) Oracle DBA
3 23 (21.90%) Transformation Analyst
4 22 (20.95%) Banking Analyst
5 19 (18.10%) Senior
6 13 (12.38%) Business Analyst
7 12 (11.43%) Data Business Analyst
7 12 (11.43%) Data Engineer
7 12 (11.43%) Technical Analyst
8 11 (10.48%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 9 (8.57%) Lead
10 8 (7.62%) Consultant
10 8 (7.62%) Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Administrator
11 7 (6.67%) Database Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
11 7 (6.67%) Senior DBA
12 6 (5.71%) Test Leader
13 5 (4.76%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.81%) PySpark
2 13 (12.38%) Pandas
3 10 (9.52%) XML
4 8 (7.62%) JSON
5 7 (6.67%) REST
6 4 (3.81%) SOAP
6 4 (3.81%) Web Services
7 3 (2.86%) XSL
8 2 (1.90%) CSS
8 2 (1.90%) HTML
8 2 (1.90%) Middleware
8 2 (1.90%) React
8 2 (1.90%) RESTful
9 1 (0.95%) .NET
9 1 (0.95%) BAPI
9 1 (0.95%) Java EE
9 1 (0.95%) JSP
9 1 (0.95%) SAP XI
9 1 (0.95%) Spring
9 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 7 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (6.67%) Operational Technology
1 7 (6.67%) SCADA
2 6 (5.71%) Replication
3 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.95%) Clustering
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.19%) Linux
2 14 (13.33%) Windows
3 11 (10.48%) Unix
3 11 (10.48%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.62%) AIX
4 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Agile
2 40 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 40 (38.10%) ETL
3 38 (36.19%) Analytics
3 38 (36.19%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (29.52%) User Acceptance Testing
5 30 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 29 (27.62%) Scrum
7 27 (25.71%) Data Governance
8 25 (23.81%) AI
8 25 (23.81%) Data Transformation
9 24 (22.86%) Data Engineering
10 22 (20.95%) Decision-Making
10 22 (20.95%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (20.00%) Data Modelling
12 20 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (18.10%) Master Data Management
13 19 (18.10%) Runbook
14 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (15.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (52.38%) SQL
2 38 (36.19%) Python
3 17 (16.19%) PL/SQL
4 10 (9.52%) Perl
4 10 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 9 (8.57%) Bash
6 8 (7.62%) Korn
7 7 (6.67%) Java
7 7 (6.67%) VB
8 6 (5.71%) Clojure
9 4 (3.81%) C#
10 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.95%) ABAP
11 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.86%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) OCP
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (36.19%) Data Quality
2 26 (24.76%) GDPR
3 12 (11.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 12 (11.43%) HIPAA
4 8 (7.62%) QA
5 2 (1.90%) SLA
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (11.43%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle Clusterware
3 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) Docker
4 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.29%) Data Guard
2 11 (10.48%) Ansible
3 10 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (5.71%) Nagios
4 6 (5.71%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.71%) Puppet
5 5 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (1.90%) Terraform
7 1 (0.95%) Grafana
7 1 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 105 (100.00%) Oracle
2 27 (25.71%) Red Hat
3 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.67%) IBM
5 6 (5.71%) IFS
6 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.90%) Splunk
6 2 (1.90%) Sybase
7 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.95%) Globalscape
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.95%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) Siemens
7 1 (0.95%) VMware
7 1 (0.95%) YouTube