Oracle DBA Jobs

Oracle Database Administrator
UK

The median Oracle Database Administrator salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 793 1096
Rank change year-on-year -11 +303 -229
Permanent jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 100 126 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.14% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50 82 100
10th Percentile £43,275 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,650 £77,500 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £41,125
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.44% -13.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Oracle DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Oracle DBA.

Salary trend for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Oracle DBA over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Oracle DBA in the UK

Oracle DBA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
UK excluding London -57 84 £50,000 -3.85% 7
England -13 69 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Work from Home +13 34 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Midlands -19 23 £55,000 +4.76%
North of England +10 19 £52,500 +31.25%
Wales - 17 £48,000 - 3
East Midlands -14 16 £55,000 -
London +83 13 £85,000 +15.25% 1
Scotland -58 10 £51,250 +13.89% 1
North East -16 9 £52,500 +31.25%
North West -19 9 - -
South East -32 8 £60,000 +33.33%
West Midlands -7 7 - -
East of England -40 3 £42,500 -22.73% 3
South West -54 3 £43,500 -15.53%
Yorkshire +60 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Oracle DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Oracle DBA in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) Oracle
2 69 (69.00%) Oracle Database
3 48 (48.00%) Performance Tuning
4 45 (45.00%) Oracle Certification
4 45 (45.00%) SQL Server
4 45 (45.00%) Unix
5 44 (44.00%) SQL
6 41 (41.00%) Problem Management
6 41 (41.00%) Security Cleared
7 40 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
8 38 (38.00%) Social Skills
9 35 (35.00%) Linux
10 32 (32.00%) MySQL
11 31 (31.00%) Degree
12 28 (28.00%) Windows
13 27 (27.00%) PL/SQL
13 27 (27.00%) Capacity Planning
14 25 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
14 25 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (25.00%) Accessibility
14 25 (25.00%) Customer Service
15 24 (24.00%) OCI
15 24 (24.00%) Finance
15 24 (24.00%) Database Security
16 23 (23.00%) OCP
17 22 (22.00%) Back Office
17 22 (22.00%) NEC
17 22 (22.00%) ITIL
17 22 (22.00%) NEC Housing
17 22 (22.00%) Driving Licence

Oracle DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.00%) WildFly
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (22.00%) NEC Housing
2 11 (11.00%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.00%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.00%) Maximo
4 1 (1.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.00%) OCI
2 17 (17.00%) Azure
3 11 (11.00%) AWS
4 1 (1.00%) GCP
4 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (69.00%) Oracle Database
2 45 (45.00%) SQL Server
3 32 (32.00%) MySQL
4 25 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 25 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (21.00%) Relational Database
6 16 (16.00%) RDBMS
7 10 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.00%) SAP HANA
9 3 (3.00%) DB2
9 3 (3.00%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.00%) Metadata
9 3 (3.00%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.00%) OLTP
10 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (1.00%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 40 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.00%) Finance
4 22 (22.00%) Back Office
4 22 (22.00%) Local Government
4 22 (22.00%) Police
4 22 (22.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) Middleware
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Driving Licence
1 22 (22.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.00%) Clustering
2 2 (2.00%) Learning Management System
2 2 (2.00%) Replication
3 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 45 (45.00%) Unix
2 35 (35.00%) Linux
3 28 (28.00%) Windows
4 4 (4.00%) AIX
5 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.00%) Performance Tuning
2 41 (41.00%) Problem Management
3 27 (27.00%) Capacity Planning
4 25 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 24 (24.00%) Database Security
6 22 (22.00%) ITIL
7 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (20.00%) Incident Management
8 20 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 20 (20.00%) Service Delivery
9 19 (19.00%) Change Management
10 18 (18.00%) Actionable Insight
10 18 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (12.00%) Analytical Thinking
11 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
12 7 (7.00%) CI/CD
13 6 (6.00%) DevOps
13 6 (6.00%) Patch Management
13 6 (6.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.00%) SQL
2 27 (27.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.00%) C++
4 1 (1.00%) ProC
Qualifications
1 45 (45.00%) Oracle Certification
2 41 (41.00%) Security Cleared
3 31 (31.00%) Degree
4 23 (23.00%) OCP
5 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.00%) OCA
9 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (17.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (10.00%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) Oracle
2 22 (22.00%) NEC
3 18 (18.00%) VMware
4 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) Civica
7 1 (1.00%) BT
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco
7 1 (1.00%) Dell
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) HP
7 1 (1.00%) Qualys
7 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow