Oracle Developer
What Does a Professional in this Career Do?
An Oracle Developer designs, codes, and maintains Oracle databases within a company. Prepares coding documentation and provides technical assistance to other developers. analyzes user and business requirements and designs and implements appropriate solutions.
Job Outlook
There were 310 Oracle Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 6119 in the United States.
In combination with other careers in the Business Intelligence Architect / Developer industry, which includes the Oracle Developer career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2016:
Salary
Many new Oracle Developer jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.
National
The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $122,960.
State
The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $121,623.
Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Oracle Developer postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $110,936.
Education and Experience
Posted Oracle Developer jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.
| Education Level | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Associate's Degree | 0% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 46.72% |
| Master's Degree | 7.35% |
| Doctoral Degree | 0.95% |
| Other | 2.93% |
Posted Oracle Developer jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.
| Years of Experience | Percentage |
|---|---|
| 0 to 2 years | 3.64% |
| 3 to 5 years | 44.49% |
| 6 to 8 years | 29.89% |
| 9+ years | 21.98% |
Skills
Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Oracle Developer positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.
Baseline Skills
A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.
- Communication (40.3%)
- Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (32.67%)
- Problem Solving (23.75%)
- Management (20.13%)
- Information Technology (13.91%)
- Innovation (11.75%)
- Planning (11.16%)
- Leadership (11%)
- Operations (9.64%)
- Consulting (9.38%)
Defining Skills
A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.
- Structured Query Language Procedural Language (SQL PL) (9.74%)
- SQL (Programming Language) (39%)
- Oracle Apex (12.02%)
- Oracle Databases (25.16%)
- Oracle Forms (8.51%)
- PL/SQL (46.89%)
- Computer Science (28.58%)
- Business Process (20.56%)
- Agile Methodology (21.43%)
- Oracle E-Business Suite (21.94%)
- Oracle Cloud (24.81%)
- Workflow Management (26.21%)
- Oracle Development (15.42%)
Necessary Skills
A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.
- Technical Requirements (7.3%)
- Technical Issues (6.77%)
- PeopleSoft Applications (7.17%)
- Technical Design (8.32%)
- Scripting (12.61%)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) (14.85%)
- Web Services (10.94%)
- Technological Change (10.89%)
- Technical Documentation (5.18%)
- Stored Procedure (9.36%)
- Oracle Fusion Middleware (19.05%)
- Supply Chain Management (9.2%)
- Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (5.99%)
- RESTful API (10.19%)
- Scrum (Software Development) (7.9%)
- Systems Development Life Cycle (8.93%)
- Performance Tuning (15.35%)
- Oracle SQL Developer (10.17%)
- Order Management Systems (6.9%)
- Project Management (13.1%)
- Python (Programming Language) (8.32%)
- Unix Shell (6.54%)
- JSON (7.77%)
- Scalability (10.42%)
- General Ledger (3.85%)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (14.59%)
- Finance (12.61%)
- Database Administration (3.39%)
- Debugging (13.15%)
- Software Development Life Cycle (5.16%)
- Extract Transform Load (ETL) (10.76%)
- Data Migration (5.21%)
- Data Modeling (15.25%)
- Procurement (4.7%)
- Software As A Service (SaaS) (6.51%)
- Code Review (6.54%)
- Business Requirements (20.5%)
- Unix (9.59%)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (8.58%)
- Automation (11%)
- Unit Testing (10.46%)
- Business Intelligence (12.22%)
- Billing (9.06%)
- Application Development (7.17%)
- Software Development (7.63%)
- Technical Support (5.05%)
- JIRA (5.1%)
- Accounts Payable (4.02%)
- Accounts Receivable (3.85%)
- Accounting (5.05%)
- Application Programming Interface (API) (17.26%)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML) (9.21%)
- Java (Programming Language) (15.2%)
- JavaScript (Programming Language) (12.5%)
- Git (Version Control System) (5.11%)
- Cloud Services (8.73%)
- Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) (11.05%)
- Solution Design (3.07%)
- Atlassian Confluence (1.64%)
- Order Management (6.9%)
Distinguishing Skills
A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.
- Oracle Adf (3.3%)
- Oracle BI Publisher (3.77%)
- Oracle Application Framework (OAF) (5.05%)
- JDeveloper (1.68%)
- Oracle Application Express (3.92%)
- Business Process Execution Language (1.69%)
- Oracle Reports (4.51%)
- Oracle Workflow (5.48%)
- Oracle Applications DBA (5.34%)
- Oracle SOA Suite (2.54%)
- Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) (1.06%)
Salary Boosting Skills
A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.
- Oracle Development (23%)
- Oracle Workflow (8.17%)
- Business Process (30.67%)
- Oracle Application Express (5.84%)
- PL/SQL (69.93%)
- Structured Query Language Procedural Language (SQL PL) (14.53%)
Alternative Job Titles
Sometimes employers post jobs with Oracle Developer skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:
- Oracle APEX Developer
- Oracle Cloud HCM Consultant
- Oracle EBS Developer
- Oracle Database Developer
- Oracle Cloud Technical Consultant
- Cloud Developer
- Oracle Applications Developer
- Oracle CPQ Architect
- Oracle HCM Consultant
Similar Occupations
If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.
- SQL Developer
- Application Developer / Engineer
- Programmer / Analyst
- Database Analyst / Developer
- ETL Developer
- Software Architect (General)
Common Employers
Here are the employers that have posted the most Oracle Developer jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.
United States
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (388)
- Accenture (217)
- Deloitte (168)
- GovCIO (102)
- American Heart Association (100)
- Cognizant Technology Solutions (81)
- Oracle (81)
- Infosys (79)
- Eliassen Group (59)
- Cai (52)
North Carolina
- Collabera (15)
- Randstad (14)
- Genesis10 (11)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (9)
- Infosys (8)
- Deloitte (8)
- Accenture (8)
- Motion Recruitment (6)
- Aloden (5)
- ASGN (5)
NC State Programs Relevant to this Career
If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!
All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.