Data Guard Contract Job Trends

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 485 557
Rank change year-on-year -119 +72 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 42 38 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.81% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 23
10th Percentile £500 £387 £329
25th Percentile £522 £416 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% +4.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £647 £589 £600
90th Percentile £699 £701 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £606 £589 £485
% change year-on-year +2.89% +21.44% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,669 4,669 5,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 15.77% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,546 3,136 3,832
10th Percentile £325 £304 £298
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 50 99
10th Percentile £19.14 £13.75 £14.88
25th Percentile £22.41 £19.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £51.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -5.88%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Guard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Guard job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Top 13 Contract Job 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 15 June 2026. 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
England -99 36 £606 +10.18% 4
UK excluding London -109 27 £606 +2.89% 3
North of England -68 11 £575 +48.20% 2
London -70 8 £625 +25.00% 2
South West -28 6 £606 -14.65%
North West - 6 £550 -
Midlands -53 4 £538 -
South East -58 4 £650 -7.14% 1
West Midlands -59 4 £538 -
North East - 4 £501 - 2
Work from Home -53 3 £550 +33.33% 2
Scotland -21 2 - -
Yorkshire -53 2 £605 +55.93%

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.76%) SAS
3 1 (2.38%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.38%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) OCI
3 8 (19.05%) Azure
4 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.38%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (85.71%) Oracle Database
2 12 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 12 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (19.05%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
6 4 (9.52%) MySQL
6 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (9.52%) RDBMS
6 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.76%) SQLPlus
9 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.38%) Db2
9 1 (2.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (11.90%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Flyway
3 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) DBA
2 29 (69.05%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (23.81%) Administrator
4 6 (14.29%) Database Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server DBA
8 1 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (9.52%) YAML
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.14%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (54.76%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Unix
3 6 (14.29%) AIX
3 6 (14.29%) Windows
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.14%) Solaris
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Performance Tuning
2 20 (47.62%) High Availability
3 15 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (30.95%) Migration
5 10 (23.81%) ITIL
6 8 (19.05%) Database Tuning
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 8 (19.05%) Security Hardening
7 7 (16.67%) Change Management
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (14.29%) Runbook
8 6 (14.29%) Security Patching
8 6 (14.29%) Service Management
9 5 (11.90%) Database Security
9 5 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (9.52%) Agile
10 4 (9.52%) Data Migration
10 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (73.81%) SQL
2 27 (64.29%) PL/SQL
3 10 (23.81%) Python
4 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
6 1 (2.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 24 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.38%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (88.10%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (33.33%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.38%) Foglight
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 42 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Commvault
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) IBM