Data Guard Contracts

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Guard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Guard over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 567 652
Rank change year-on-year +75 +85 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 27 33 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.076% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 40
10th Percentile £396 £334 £413
25th Percentile £413 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +9.13% +0.80%
75th Percentile £582 £631 £541
90th Percentile £589 £643 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +31.65% -19.05% +16.67%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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 30 April 2025.

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 9 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 30 April 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 +65 17 £500 -14.89% 5
UK excluding London +50 11 £560 +31.65% 3
London +35 10 £500 -14.89% 1
Work from Home +42 8 £425 -22.73% 9
Scotland +9 7 £575 +70.22%
North of England +28 2 £380 -11.57%
Yorkshire +16 2 £380 -21.60%
South East - 1 £700 - 3
South West - 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) OCI
2 9 (33.33%) PaaS
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 7 (25.93%) SaaS
5 5 (18.52%) AWS
6 3 (11.11%) IaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) Oracle Database
2 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle Database 12c
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (14.81%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.70%) Serena SBM
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Billing
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Database Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (18.52%) DBA
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle DBA
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Clustering
1 5 (18.52%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Solaris
3 7 (25.93%) Windows
4 5 (18.52%) AIX
5 2 (7.41%) Unix
5 2 (7.41%) VMS
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) High Availability
2 12 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (25.93%) Problem Management
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Database Tuning
5 6 (22.22%) ITIL
6 5 (18.52%) Database Security
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Service Management
7 4 (14.81%) Database Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (14.81%) Runbook
8 3 (11.11%) Attestation
8 3 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
8 3 (11.11%) SDLC
8 3 (11.11%) Security Patching
8 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) JCL
4 1 (3.70%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) Ruby
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) NFS
3 1 (3.70%) Samba
3 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Flashback
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (3.70%) Control-M
6 1 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (3.70%) QRadar
6 1 (3.70%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
3 4 (14.81%) Dell
3 4 (14.81%) Dynatrace
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) BMC
5 1 (3.70%) Commvault
5 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.70%) EMC
5 1 (3.70%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Serena
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase
5 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.70%) VMware