Future plc
Oracle Database Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 71,000 per year
Requirements:- Shown experience in database development using Oracle PL/SQL
- Strong SQL writing skills and data analysis using SQLPlus, Toad, and SQL Developer
- Experience writing complex and optimal SQL queries
- Experience debugging and performance tuning PL/SQL code
- Experience in Oracle Forms 12c (Oracle Fusion Middleware)
- Experience with ETL processing, data extraction, transform, and load
- Working knowledge of partitioning and materialised views
- Experience working in a support environment with good problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work within standard procedures and within a project life cycle
- Knowledge of database best practices
- Keen interest in database development using Oracle
- Interest in understanding the workings of an application
- Become the Oracle PL/SQL and Oracle APEX 24.2 technical expert for applications
- Support BAU delivery, enhancements, and developments
- Act as the primary contact for the business
- Provide secondary cover for other applications based on technology experience
- Apex
- ETL
- Support
- Marketing
- Oracle
- SQL
- ASP.NET
- Hardware
- SAP
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We are Future, a global leader in specialist media, bringing our trusted brands to life through expert content and technology that help millions of people discover, inspire, and take action. Our Circulation Tech team of 9 includes Project Managers, Business Analysts, BI, Oracle, and Software Engineers, and works closely with Infrastructure/Networks on projects that support Marketforce and its applications. Marketforce is our business unit focused on Circulation Newsstand in the UK and globally, with more than 30 years of experience in magazine distribution, global sales, and marketing. It is the #1 magazine distributor, distributing over 200 million copies worldwide each year. Our applications are built on Oracle, Oracle APEX, WebLogic, Microsoft .NET, and Business Objects, and this is a hybrid role based in our London Paddington office two days per week. We offer uncapped leave, enhanced parental leave, discounted dental and private medical care, a bonus scheme, colleague assistance programmes, share incentive plan, salary sacrifice pension matching, and free drinks and snacks in our offices, with a salary range of 50,000 - 55,000.
last updated 35 week of 2026
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 7% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks