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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 542 617
Rank change year-on-year +40 +75 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 45 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.071% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 26
10th Percentile £403 - £404
25th Percentile £440 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £538
90th Percentile £708 £650 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £591 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +9.86% +13.16% -5.00%
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 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 5,170 5,160 7,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,397 3,500 5,224
10th Percentile £300 £307 £325
25th Percentile £410 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £668
90th Percentile £682 £704 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 179
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.45
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £33.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.03% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £63.06 £60.00 £75.25
90th Percentile £67.78 £74.00 £79.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 11 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 16 September 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
England +39 40 £556 +1.14% 4
UK excluding London +25 28 £591 +9.86% 3
Work from Home +32 11 £450 -28.00% 3
North of England - 11 £563 -
Yorkshire - 11 £563 -
London +26 9 £536 -2.50% 2
South West - 9 £693 - 2
South East - 5 £625 - 1
Midlands -9 2 - -
West Midlands -9 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) OCI
4 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.22%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (97.78%) Oracle Database
2 14 (31.11%) SQL Server
3 10 (22.22%) Oracle Database 12c
3 10 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
5 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.22%) GIS
7 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Electronics
5 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) DBA
1 29 (64.44%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (15.56%) Administrator
2 7 (15.56%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared DBA
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Database Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DBA
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.22%) Database Specialist
7 1 (2.22%) Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Specialist
7 1 (2.22%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 10 (22.22%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.22%) EJB
3 1 (2.22%) Java EE
3 1 (2.22%) Java SE
3 1 (2.22%) JSP
3 1 (2.22%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.22%) OpenLayers
3 1 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Replication
2 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (62.22%) Linux
2 8 (17.78%) Windows
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 2 (4.44%) VMS
6 1 (2.22%) AIX
6 1 (2.22%) Solaris
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (24.44%) Task Automation
5 10 (22.22%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) API Integration
5 10 (22.22%) Database Migration
6 8 (17.78%) Database Security
6 8 (17.78%) Migration
7 7 (15.56%) High Availability
8 6 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (11.11%) Line Management
9 5 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (11.11%) Security Patching
10 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
10 4 (8.89%) ITIL
11 3 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (6.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) SQL
2 15 (33.33%) Python
3 14 (31.11%) PL/SQL
4 11 (24.44%) Shell Script
5 5 (11.11%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) OCP
3 6 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
1 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
1 2 (4.44%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (68.89%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 14 (31.11%) Ansible
4 10 (22.22%) yum
5 4 (8.89%) Terraform
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Delphix
4 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Sybase
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.22%) VMware