Data Guard Contracts

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Guard skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Guard over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 641 698
Rank change year-on-year +101 +57 -55
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 29 54 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.096% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 0.60% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 96
10th Percentile £326 £463 £391
25th Percentile £390 £470 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +0.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £575
90th Percentile £648 £575 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.02
25th Percentile - - £43.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.35
75th Percentile - - £49.53
90th Percentile - - £50.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.20

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Data Guard is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,120 8,950 13,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.84% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,714 6,399 10,012
10th Percentile £267 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -1.33% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 206 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.67
25th Percentile £18.89 £25.18 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +150.00% -45.00%
75th Percentile £50.13 £70.19 £44.22
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.88 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +109 15 £550 +9.13% 3
England +80 14 £533 +1.43% 6
UK excluding London +29 12 £375 -28.57% 3
London +91 9 £588 +17.50% 3
Wales +19 5 £550 +2.33%
Scotland +30 4 £338 -28.95%
North of England +29 2 £430 -18.10% 2
Midlands +28 1 - - 1
North West +28 1 £375 -6.83% 1
East Midlands +22 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £485 -

Data Guard
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 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) OCI
3 5 (17.24%) PaaS
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) AWS
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (75.86%) Oracle Database
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle Database 12c
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle ODI
3 6 (20.69%) PowerCenter
4 4 (13.79%) Metadata
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
3 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (51.72%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (82.76%) DBA
2 22 (75.86%) Oracle DBA
3 12 (41.38%) Administrator
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Database Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) MySQL DBA
6 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 2 (6.90%) Senior DBA
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Middleware
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.90%) Clustering
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 9 (31.03%) AIX
3 5 (17.24%) Unix
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.34%) VMS
6 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (41.38%) High Availability
3 11 (37.93%) DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) Database Security
5 9 (31.03%) E-business
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (27.59%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
8 4 (13.79%) Data Transformation
8 4 (13.79%) Security Management
9 3 (10.34%) Cost Reduction
9 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (6.90%) ERP
10 2 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (6.90%) Programme Management
10 2 (6.90%) Storage Management
11 1 (3.45%) Configuration Management
11 1 (3.45%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Shell Script
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) OCP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) IFRS
2 1 (3.45%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.34%) Ansible
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) Informatica
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) EMC
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk