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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 443 Oracle Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 6937 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 2015:

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 $117,382.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $112,223.

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 $111,262.

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 LevelPercentage
Associate's Degree0%
Bachelor's Degree42.93%
Master's Degree7.14%
Doctoral Degree0.42%
Other1.93%

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 ExperiencePercentage
0 to 2 years7.22%
3 to 5 years45.72%
6 to 8 years22.49%
9+ years24.58%

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 (29.58%)
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (27.06%)
  • Management (18.77%)
  • Problem Solving (18.55%)
  • Information Technology (11.2%)
  • Research (10.19%)
  • Planning (9.89%)
  • Writing (9.04%)
  • Leadership (8.59%)
  • Self-Motivation (8.43%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

  • Oracle Development (15.35%)
  • Computer Science (31.11%)
  • Oracle Databases (25.47%)
  • Oracle E-Business Suite (20.99%)
  • PL/SQL (42.02%)
  • Java (Programming Language) (21.54%)
  • Oracle Apex (9.91%)
  • Oracle Forms (7.19%)
  • SQL (Programming Language) (39.26%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

  • Workflow Management (14.3%)
  • Application Programming Interface (API) (15.38%)
  • Agile Methodology (21.48%)
  • JavaScript (Programming Language) (12.32%)
  • Oracle Cloud (16.11%)
  • Data Analysis (7.6%)
  • Solution Design (3.74%)
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML) (8.08%)
  • Change Management (8.76%)
  • Technical Support (6.68%)
  • JIRA (5.13%)
  • Business Intelligence (13.45%)
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (7.49%)
  • Procurement (3.2%)
  • Debugging (16.14%)
  • Software As A Service (SaaS) (4.39%)
  • Extract Transform Load (ETL) (12.7%)
  • Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) (7.78%)
  • Database Administration (5.27%)
  • Linux (11.34%)
  • Database Design (7.55%)
  • Software Development Life Cycle (5.84%)
  • Application Development (13.13%)
  • Automation (9.01%)
  • Unix Shell (6.11%)
  • Oracle SQL Developer (9.88%)
  • Performance Tuning (15.62%)
  • Business Requirements (16.11%)
  • Data Modeling (16.08%)
  • Accounting (4.2%)
  • Software Development (12.56%)
  • Systems Development Life Cycle (7.79%)
  • Code Review (6.86%)
  • Unit Testing (9.53%)
  • Unix (9.85%)
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (9.91%)
  • Business Process (12.39%)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (9.3%)
  • Data Warehousing (10.48%)
  • Structured Query Language Procedural Language (SQL PL) (8.47%)
  • RESTful API (9.27%)
  • Middleware (10.48%)
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware (9.91%)
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (12.15%)
  • Relational Databases (10.39%)
  • Finance (9.61%)
  • Development Testing (8.24%)
  • Python (Programming Language) (10.55%)
  • JSON (5.35%)
  • Project Management (10.06%)
  • Scrum (Software Development) (8.31%)
  • Stored Procedure (9.57%)
  • Web Services (16.14%)
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML) (13.3%)
  • Scripting (13.76%)
  • Technical Design (6.4%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

  • Oracle Reports (3.64%)
  • Oracle Workflow (4.21%)
  • DB2 SQL (4.32%)
  • Hazelcast (4.21%)
  • Oracle Application Express (3.42%)
  • Oracle Application Framework (OAF) (5.4%)

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 (29.16%)
  • DB2 SQL (8.22%)
  • Oracle Forms (13.66%)
  • SQL (Programming Language) (74.6%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Oracle Developer skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

  • Oracle EBS Developer
  • Oracle APEX Developer
  • Oracle Database Developer
  • Middleware Developer
  • Cloud Developer
  • Oracle Applications Developer
  • Oracle HCM Consultant
  • OBIEE Developer
  • Oracle Cloud 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.

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

  • Old Dominion Freight Line (261)
  • Accenture (139)
  • Oracle (125)
  • Deloitte (124)
  • Randstad (88)
  • KPMG (82)
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions (69)
  • Volt (53)
  • Motion Recruitment (51)
  • Beacon Hill Staffing Group (50)

North Carolina

  • Randstad (29)
  • Collabera (12)
  • Old Dominion Freight Line (12)
  • Deloitte (10)
  • Motion Recruitment (8)
  • Jobot (7)
  • ASGN (7)
  • Infosys (6)
  • Genesis10 (6)
  • Diverse Lynx (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.