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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 782 679 763
Rank change year-on-year -103 +84 +27
Permanent jobs citing Oracle Linux 11 9 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.053%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% 0.13% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile - £51,250 £62,125
25th Percentile £72,500 £58,938 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -28.50% +100.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £106,250
90th Percentile - - £113,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -

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 6,397 6,863 10,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.82% 13.70% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 4,532 6,840
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -4.26%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Top 5 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 31 August 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 -91 11 £75,000 +4.90%
London -44 10 £75,000 -6.25%
North of England -69 1 £57,500 -
UK excluding London -117 1 £57,500 +9.52%
North West - 1 £57,500 -

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:

Business Applications
1 10 (90.91%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (90.91%) Banking
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) DBA
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle DBA
1 10 (90.91%) Senior
1 10 (90.91%) Senior DBA
1 10 (90.91%) Senior Oracle DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) AIX
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) SUSE
3 1 (9.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 11 (100.00%) ITIL
2 10 (90.91%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (90.91%) Change Management
2 10 (90.91%) Configuration Management
2 10 (90.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (90.91%) High Availability
2 10 (90.91%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (90.91%) Runbook
2 10 (90.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
3 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Bash
2 10 (90.91%) Korn
2 10 (90.91%) PL/SQL
2 10 (90.91%) Shell Script
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) HP ASE
1 1 (9.09%) VCAP
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (9.09%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Data Guard
1 10 (90.91%) Nagios
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (90.91%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zerto