Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Oracle RAC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 790 650 750
Rank change year-on-year -140 +100 -38
Permanent jobs citing Oracle RAC 13 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.014% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 0.13% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile - £94,375 -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £140,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +64.71% +36.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Oracle RAC falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,337 5,579 7,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 11.34% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,401 3,354 4,430
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £74,451
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle RAC job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle RAC
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -138 13 £75,000 -46.43% 11
London -69 12 £75,000 -46.43% 7
Work from Home -49 1 - - 8
UK excluding London - 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

Oracle RAC
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 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 11 (84.62%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) GIS
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (84.62%) Banking
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Police
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Senior
2 10 (76.92%) DBA
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle DBA
2 10 (76.92%) Senior DBA
2 10 (76.92%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Unix Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Java SE
1 1 (7.69%) OpenLayers
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 11 (84.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (84.62%) Unix
3 10 (76.92%) AIX
3 10 (76.92%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Disaster Recovery
1 12 (92.31%) High Availability
1 12 (92.31%) ITIL
1 12 (92.31%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (84.62%) Change Management
2 11 (84.62%) Incident Response
3 10 (76.92%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (76.92%) Configuration Management
3 10 (76.92%) Runbook
3 10 (76.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (92.31%) Bash
3 11 (84.62%) Korn
3 11 (84.62%) PL/SQL
3 11 (84.62%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Clusterware
1 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (84.62%) Data Guard
3 10 (76.92%) Nagios
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware