Data Guard Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Data Guard
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 384 414
Rank change year-on-year +58 +30 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 13 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.69% 0.64% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 23
10th Percentile £400 £324 £411
25th Percentile £517 £330 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £589 £528 £575
90th Percentile £689 £578 -
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -4.32% +9.13% +0.80%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,890 2,355 3,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 11.35% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,705 2,653
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 136
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -9.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in the UK excluding London

Data Guard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the UK excluding London

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the UK excluding London

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the UK excluding London

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +13 7 £575 +70.22%
North of England +24 3 £388 -9.77%
Yorkshire +9 3 £388 -20.00%
South East - 2 £700 - 1
South West - 1 - -
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) OCI
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Database
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Back Office
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Front Office
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Database Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Database Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (46.15%) Solaris
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
4 5 (38.46%) AIX
5 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) High Availability
1 10 (76.92%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (53.85%) Problem Management
3 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Database Migration
4 5 (38.46%) Database Tuning
4 5 (38.46%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) Service Management
6 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Proactive Maintenance
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
7 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (15.38%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (15.38%) Software Licensing
7 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (30.77%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Dell
3 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Commvault