Data Guard Contracts in Scotland

Oracle Data Guard
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Guard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Guard over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 114 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Guard 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.98% 0.91% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £534 £324 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £338 £475
Median % change year-on-year +72.37% -28.95% +18.01%
75th Percentile £589 £351 £491
90th Percentile - - £496
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +10.00% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

Data Guard falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 219 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.12% 11.74% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 155 250
10th Percentile £280 £200 £260
25th Percentile £425 £382 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.63% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £545
90th Percentile £636 £600 £604
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £20.55 £29.28
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £46.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -57.95% +224.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £59.20
90th Percentile - - £60.01
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.54% -36.21% +144.44%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in Scotland

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Guard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Guard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Guard

Data Guard
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -20 5 £575 +70.22%
Edinburgh - 2 £589 - 1
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) OCI
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Database Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Clustering
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) AIX
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Solaris
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (71.43%) Database Tuning
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (57.14%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
3 4 (57.14%) Dell
3 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Delphix