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 to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 819 1096
Rank change year-on-year +11 +277 -260
Permanent jobs requiring an Oracle DBA 99 128 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.14% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 52 85 103
10th Percentile £43,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,750 £43,531
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 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £42,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.08% -11.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 1 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 -36 83 £50,000 -3.85% 7
England -10 69 £52,500 -4.55% 7
Work from Home +25 35 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Midlands +5 23 £55,000 +4.76% 1
North of England +31 19 £52,500 +31.25% 1
East Midlands -3 16 £55,000 - 1
Wales - 16 £48,000 - 1
London +102 13 £85,000 +13.33% 1
Scotland -56 10 £51,250 +13.89% 1
North West 0 9 - - 1
North East -10 9 £52,500 +31.25%
South East -11 8 £60,000 +33.33%
West Midlands -11 7 - -
East of England -28 3 £42,500 -22.73% 3
South West -40 3 £43,500 -15.53%
Yorkshire +57 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 99 (100.00%) Oracle
2 68 (68.69%) Oracle Database
3 48 (48.48%) Performance Tuning
4 46 (46.46%) Oracle Certification
5 43 (43.43%) SQL Server
5 43 (43.43%) Unix
6 42 (42.42%) SQL
7 41 (41.41%) Problem Management
7 41 (41.41%) Security Cleared
8 40 (40.40%) Analytical Skills
9 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
10 34 (34.34%) Linux
11 32 (32.32%) MySQL
12 29 (29.29%) Degree
13 25 (25.25%) Capacity Planning
13 25 (25.25%) Database Security
13 25 (25.25%) Windows
13 25 (25.25%) PL/SQL
13 25 (25.25%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (25.25%) Customer Service
13 25 (25.25%) OCI
14 24 (24.24%) Accessibility
14 24 (24.24%) Finance
14 24 (24.24%) OCP
14 24 (24.24%) Oracle Database 12c
15 22 (22.22%) NEC Housing
15 22 (22.22%) Driving Licence
15 22 (22.22%) Local Government
15 22 (22.22%) Back Office
15 22 (22.22%) NEC

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 9 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.02%) IIS
2 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.02%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.02%) WildFly
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (22.22%) NEC Housing
2 11 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.01%) Maximo
4 1 (1.01%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.25%) OCI
2 17 (17.17%) Azure
3 11 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (1.01%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Firewall
1 1 (1.01%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (68.69%) Oracle Database
2 43 (43.43%) SQL Server
3 32 (32.32%) MySQL
4 25 (25.25%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (24.24%) Oracle Database 12c
6 21 (21.21%) Relational Database
7 16 (16.16%) RDBMS
8 10 (10.10%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.04%) SAP HANA
10 3 (3.03%) DB2
10 3 (3.03%) MariaDB
10 3 (3.03%) Metadata
10 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.02%) OLTP
11 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (1.01%) OrientDB
12 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 40 (40.40%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.24%) Finance
4 22 (22.22%) Back Office
4 22 (22.22%) Local Government
4 22 (22.22%) Police
4 22 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.01%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) Middleware
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.01%) J2EE
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.22%) Driving Licence
1 22 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.02%) Clustering
2 2 (2.02%) Learning Management System
2 2 (2.02%) Replication
3 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 43 (43.43%) Unix
2 34 (34.34%) Linux
3 25 (25.25%) Windows
4 4 (4.04%) AIX
5 1 (1.01%) Solaris
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) Performance Tuning
2 41 (41.41%) Problem Management
3 25 (25.25%) Capacity Planning
3 25 (25.25%) Customer Service
3 25 (25.25%) Database Security
4 22 (22.22%) ITIL
4 22 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.20%) Incident Management
5 20 (20.20%) Incident Response
6 19 (19.19%) Change Management
6 19 (19.19%) Service Delivery
7 18 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 16 (16.16%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (12.12%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
11 6 (6.06%) DevOps
11 6 (6.06%) Patch Management
11 6 (6.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.42%) SQL
2 25 (25.25%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.04%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.01%) C++
5 1 (1.01%) ProC
Qualifications
1 46 (46.46%) Oracle Certification
2 41 (41.41%) Security Cleared
3 29 (29.29%) Degree
4 24 (24.24%) OCP
5 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
6 12 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.04%) OCA
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.24%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (16.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (10.10%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle Statspack
5 1 (1.01%) Ansible
5 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) Oracle
2 22 (22.22%) NEC
3 16 (16.16%) VMware
4 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.04%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) Civica
7 1 (1.01%) BT
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco
7 1 (1.01%) Dell
7 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.01%) HP
7 1 (1.01%) Qualys
7 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow