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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 486 539
Rank change year-on-year -102 +53 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 43 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.11% 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 21
10th Percentile £500 £381 £324
25th Percentile £516 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -7.95% +9.13%
75th Percentile £636 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £601 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £375
% change year-on-year +0.04% +53.27% -28.57%

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 6,585 4,630 5,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.89% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,508 3,143 3,781
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £493 £495
% change year-on-year -0.61% -0.30% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 49 100
10th Percentile £19.25 £13.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.63 £19.97 £20.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.98% -5.00% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.25 £51.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.96 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -6.25% -6.43%

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 1 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 1 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 -87 36 £588 +17.50% 3
UK excluding London -73 28 £575 +0.04% 1
South East -55 8 £575 -17.86% 1
North of England -68 8 £538 +38.53%
London -70 8 £625 +25.00% 3
South West -23 5 £606 -
Work from Home -50 5 £588 +42.42% 1
West Midlands - 5 £525 -
Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West - 4 £538 -
Scotland -7 2 - -
Yorkshire -60 2 £605 +55.93%
North East - 2 £490 -

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 4 (9.30%) WebLogic
2 3 (6.98%) SAS
3 2 (4.65%) Liferay
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.33%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 9 (20.93%) OCI
4 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Storage
5 3 (6.98%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.33%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (88.37%) Oracle Database
2 12 (27.91%) Oracle Exadata
2 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database 11g
5 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (13.95%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (11.63%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
7 4 (9.30%) MySQL
7 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.98%) SQLPlus
9 2 (4.65%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.33%) DB2
10 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (4.65%) Flyway
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (76.74%) DBA
2 32 (74.42%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (23.26%) Administrator
4 6 (13.95%) Database Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Oracle Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared DBA
7 2 (4.65%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.33%) Database Architect
8 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared DBA
8 1 (2.33%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Technical Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Senior DBA
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (9.30%) YAML
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) 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 25 (58.14%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Unix
3 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (13.95%) Windows
5 4 (9.30%) AIX
6 3 (6.98%) Solaris
7 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) Performance Tuning
2 20 (46.51%) High Availability
3 14 (32.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (25.58%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Migration
6 9 (20.93%) ITIL
7 8 (18.60%) Runbook
7 8 (18.60%) Security Hardening
8 7 (16.28%) Database Tuning
9 6 (13.95%) Change Management
9 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.63%) Agile
10 5 (11.63%) Database Security
10 5 (11.63%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (11.63%) Security Patching
10 5 (11.63%) Service Management
10 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
11 4 (9.30%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) SQL
2 29 (67.44%) PL/SQL
3 9 (20.93%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) JCL
6 1 (2.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (23.26%) DV Cleared
4 8 (18.60%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.98%) OCP
6 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (62.79%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 38 (88.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (27.91%) Ansible
3 6 (13.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Terraform
5 2 (4.65%) Foglight
5 2 (4.65%) systemd
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) Commvault
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) IBM