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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 355 402
Rank change year-on-year +16 +47 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 34 16 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.50% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 14
10th Percentile £440 £324 £420
25th Percentile £500 £337 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £651 £538 £538
90th Percentile £712 £575 £546
UK median daily rate £542 £538 £504
% change year-on-year +0.88% +6.65% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 2,269 2,332 3,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.84% 12.60% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 1,701 2,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £640 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 42 104
10th Percentile £18.11 £17.26 £16.69
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £21.91
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +40.13% -15.01% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.38 £67.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 August 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +5 12 £550 +13.40% 3
North of England +2 12 £550 +27.91% 3
South West - 9 £693 -
Scotland -3 6 £582 +72.37%
South East - 5 £625 - 3
West Midlands -5 2 - -
Midlands -8 2 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) OCI
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (82.35%) Oracle Database
2 19 (55.88%) SQL Server
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle Database 12c
3 7 (20.59%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Git
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Electronics
6 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Back Office
8 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) DBA
1 17 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 9 (26.47%) Database Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Lead
4 5 (14.71%) Administrator
4 5 (14.71%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared DBA
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) FastAPI
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Replication
2 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (11.76%) Clustering
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (70.59%) Linux
2 12 (35.29%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (14.71%) AIX
4 5 (14.71%) Solaris
5 2 (5.88%) Unix
5 2 (5.88%) VMS
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) High Availability
4 10 (29.41%) Task Automation
5 9 (26.47%) API Integration
6 8 (23.53%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) ITIL
7 7 (20.59%) Database Migration
7 7 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (20.59%) Problem Management
8 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (14.71%) Database Tuning
8 5 (14.71%) Line Management
8 5 (14.71%) Migration
9 4 (11.76%) Service Management
10 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (8.82%) Change Management
10 3 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (8.82%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
3 7 (20.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) OCP
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (5.88%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (41.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 9 (26.47%) Ansible
3 9 (26.47%) yum
4 4 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Dell
4 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
5 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 3 (8.82%) Sybase