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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 504 564
Rank change year-on-year -43 +60 +128
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 41 12 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.038% 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.25% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 4 20
10th Percentile £439 £527 £468
25th Percentile £480 £558 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £631
90th Percentile £635 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +7.32% +7.89% +1.33%

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 5,719 4,716 5,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 14.84% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,044 4,046
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £643
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 66 158
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.36 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £21.44
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%
75th Percentile £63.32 £49.05 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.22 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +123.33% -47.64% +23.15%

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 11 January 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 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 11 January 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 -22 31 £563 -10.00% 8
UK excluding London -31 26 £550 +7.32% 7
North of England - 10 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 10 £550 -
Work from Home -6 9 £463 -24.49% 1
London -12 6 £596 -4.60% 2
South East - 6 £563 - 2
South West - 5 £606 - 1
Midlands - 3 £525 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 3
Scotland +2 1 - -
Wales - 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 3 (7.32%) SAS
2 2 (4.88%) Liferay
2 2 (4.88%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) OCI
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.88%) IaaS
6 2 (4.88%) PaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.44%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
1 3 (7.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (92.68%) Oracle Database
2 15 (36.59%) Oracle Exadata
3 11 (26.83%) SQL Server
4 7 (17.07%) Oracle Database 12c
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
7 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
7 3 (7.32%) MySQL
7 3 (7.32%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (7.32%) SQLPlus
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.44%) GIS
9 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Banking
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) DBA
1 26 (63.41%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (17.07%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Administrator
3 4 (9.76%) Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Oracle Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Database Technical Architect
6 1 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Principal Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Principal Java Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 10 (24.39%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle ADF
4 1 (2.44%) EJB
4 1 (2.44%) Java EE
4 1 (2.44%) Java SE
4 1 (2.44%) JSP
4 1 (2.44%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.44%) OpenLayers
4 1 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Replication
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) Linux
2 9 (21.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Windows
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Solaris
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Performance Tuning
1 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (36.59%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) Migration
4 12 (29.27%) Task Automation
5 10 (24.39%) API Integration
6 7 (17.07%) Database Migration
7 6 (14.63%) High Availability
8 5 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
10 3 (7.32%) Data Protection
10 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (7.32%) Microservices
10 3 (7.32%) Re-Platforming
10 3 (7.32%) Runbook
10 3 (7.32%) Statistics
11 2 (4.88%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) SQL
2 22 (53.66%) PL/SQL
3 15 (36.59%) Python
4 14 (34.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.76%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) OCP
2 7 (17.07%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (85.37%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Oracle RMAN
2 14 (34.15%) Ansible
3 13 (31.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 10 (24.39%) yum
5 2 (4.88%) Foglight
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (4.88%) systemd
6 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) Red Hat
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Sybase
5 1 (2.44%) Delphix
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) VMware