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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 492 556
Rank change year-on-year -112 +64 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 43 40 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.13% 0.071%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 0.83% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 22
10th Percentile £500 £389 £326
25th Percentile £525 £422 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +4.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £595 £594
90th Percentile £699 £709 £645
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 6,846 4,813 5,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.75% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,686 3,204 3,831
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 54 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £20.54 £21.29
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.34 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -6.98%

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 29 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 29 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 -106 36 £606 +10.18% 12
UK excluding London -99 27 £606 +2.89% 12
North of England -59 13 £575 +48.20% 7
London -66 8 £625 +25.00% 1
North West - 7 £550 - 5
South West -37 6 £606 -14.95%
North East - 6 £501 - 2
South East -59 4 £650 -7.14% 3
Work from Home -61 3 £550 +33.33% 8
Scotland -12 2 - -
Yorkshire -49 2 £605 +55.93%
Midlands -56 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -58 2 £550 - 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 2 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (4.65%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) OCI
3 7 (16.28%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.33%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) IPsec
1 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (86.05%) Oracle Database
2 13 (30.23%) Oracle Exadata
3 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (18.60%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (13.95%) RDBMS
5 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
7 4 (9.30%) MySQL
8 3 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.33%) Db2
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) GitLab
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (4.65%) Flyway
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (67.44%) DBA
2 28 (65.12%) Oracle DBA
3 11 (25.58%) Administrator
4 6 (13.95%) Database Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) SQL DBA
6 3 (6.98%) Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Technical Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 1 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (9.30%) YAML
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) Replication
3 2 (4.65%) Clustering
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Unix
3 8 (18.60%) AIX
4 5 (11.63%) Windows
5 3 (6.98%) Solaris
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (44.19%) High Availability
3 16 (37.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (32.56%) Migration
5 12 (27.91%) ITIL
6 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (18.60%) Database Tuning
7 8 (18.60%) DevOps
7 8 (18.60%) Security Hardening
8 7 (16.28%) Change Management
8 7 (16.28%) Service Management
9 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
9 6 (13.95%) Database Security
9 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.95%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (13.95%) Runbook
9 6 (13.95%) Security Patching
10 5 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (9.30%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) SQL
2 24 (55.81%) PL/SQL
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) JCL
6 1 (2.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 24 (55.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (88.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (37.21%) Ansible
3 11 (25.58%) Terraform
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.33%) Foglight
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.33%) Commvault
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) IBM
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft