Oracle Linux Job Trends

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Oracle Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 658 805
Rank change year-on-year -11 +147 +171
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Linux 7 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.024% 0.018%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.13% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - £55,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,063 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £86,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -13.75% +81.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - - £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £58,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +17.50% -4.76%

All Operating Systems
UK

Oracle Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,279 6,869 11,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 15.03% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,873 4,176 9,767
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,188 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £47,307 £42,500
% change year-on-year -17.56% +11.31% -5.56%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux
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 Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -6 6 £75,000 -13.04% 10
London +35 5 £75,000 -31.82% 2
Work from Home +22 2 - - 9
UK excluding London -13 2 - - 9
Midlands -2 1 - -
Northern Ireland -32 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Oracle Linux
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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) FPGA
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) AIX
3 3 (42.86%) Unix
4 2 (28.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Runbook
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Korn
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Nagios
2 3 (42.86%) Data Guard
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Graylog
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Commvault
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Zerto