Data Guard Contracts

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Guard skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Guard over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 660 734
Rank change year-on-year +95 +74 -109
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 33 59 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.099% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 0.61% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 78
10th Percentile £334 £413 £379
25th Percentile £473 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +0.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £613
90th Percentile £643 £575 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.02
25th Percentile - - £43.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.35
75th Percentile - - £49.53
90th Percentile - - £50.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.20

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Data Guard is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 11 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +118 16 £550 +9.56% 2
England +104 15 £588 +11.90% 1
UK excluding London +49 15 £425 -19.05% 1
London +99 10 £588 +17.50%
Scotland +32 7 £338 -28.95%
Wales +20 5 £550 -
North of England +25 2 £430 -18.10%
Midlands +21 1 - -
North West +11 1 £375 -37.50%
Yorkshire - 1 £485 -
East Midlands - 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 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.03%) OCI
4 1 (3.03%) PaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (90.91%) Oracle Database
2 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 8 (24.24%) MySQL
3 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (21.21%) Oracle Database 12c
4 7 (21.21%) Oracle ODI
5 6 (18.18%) PowerCenter
6 5 (15.15%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (12.12%) Metadata
7 4 (12.12%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (9.09%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
9 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (96.97%) DBA
2 28 (84.85%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (30.30%) Administrator
4 7 (21.21%) Database Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) MySQL DBA
4 7 (21.21%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Support Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 5 (15.15%) Senior DBA
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle Applications DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Middleware
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Clustering
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) AIX
3 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (24.24%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (39.39%) High Availability
3 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (33.33%) Database Security
5 10 (30.30%) Migration
6 9 (27.27%) E-business
7 8 (24.24%) DevOps
8 6 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
9 4 (12.12%) Data Transformation
9 4 (12.12%) Database Tuning
9 4 (12.12%) Security Management
10 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis
10 3 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (6.06%) Knowledge Transfer
11 2 (6.06%) Prototyping
11 2 (6.06%) Storage Management
12 1 (3.03%) CI/CD
12 1 (3.03%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) C
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) OCP
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) IFRS
2 1 (3.03%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.18%) Informatica
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) EMC
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk