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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 528 576
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +138
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 40 15 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.042% 0.070%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 0.29% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 24
10th Percentile £434 £488 £405
25th Percentile £468 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £630 £634 £555
90th Percentile £712 £638 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +2.56%
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 5,847 5,173 6,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 14.49% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,966 3,290 4,473
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 71 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.32 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +26.73% -44.78% +75.36%

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 10 December 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 12 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 10 December 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 -15 32 £563 -10.00% 9
UK excluding London -17 27 £550 +7.32% 8
Work from Home 0 10 £463 -24.49% 3
North of England - 10 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 10 £550 -
South West - 9 £693 - 1
London -7 6 £596 -4.60% 3
South East - 4 £550 - 3
West Midlands -25 2 - - 3
Midlands -31 2 - - 3
Scotland +5 1 - -
Wales 0 1 - -

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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) nginx
1 1 (2.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 14 (35.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (32.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 8 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Electronics
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
5 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (70.00%) DBA
1 28 (70.00%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared DBA
5 2 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Senior DBA
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (2.50%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Principal Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 10 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.50%) EJB
3 1 (2.50%) Java EE
3 1 (2.50%) Java SE
3 1 (2.50%) JSP
3 1 (2.50%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (2.50%) OpenLayers
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.50%) AIX
6 1 (2.50%) Solaris
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Task Automation
5 10 (25.00%) API Integration
5 10 (25.00%) Migration
6 7 (17.50%) Database Migration
7 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Line Management
8 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
9 3 (7.50%) Change Control
9 3 (7.50%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (7.50%) ITIL
9 3 (7.50%) Programme Management
9 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 15 (37.50%) Python
4 11 (27.50%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) OCP
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (35.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (30.00%) Ansible
4 10 (25.00%) yum
5 1 (2.50%) Foglight
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Sybase
4 2 (5.00%) Delphix
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) VMware