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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 543 631
Rank change year-on-year +35 +88 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 42 31 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.072% 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 0.57% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 28
10th Percentile £390 £326 £406
25th Percentile £425 £389 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £589 £594 £538
90th Percentile £708 £645 £541
UK excluding London median daily rate £589 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +21.44% -7.62% +5.00%
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 4,998 5,430 8,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 12.53% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 3,860 6,174
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.30 £19.80
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.25 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -13.04% +130.00%

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 5 July 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 11 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 5 July 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 +72 32 £550 +8.37% 110
UK excluding London +48 22 £589 +21.44% 105
London +50 12 £500 -9.09% 10
Work from Home +23 11 £413 -25.00% 54
South West - 8 £713 - 14
Scotland +5 6 £582 +72.37%
Yorkshire +6 3 £388 -20.00% 13
North of England +6 3 £388 -9.77% 24
South East - 3 £700 - 16
Midlands +9 2 - - 28
West Midlands +8 2 - - 15

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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) OCI
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) PaaS
4 5 (11.90%) SaaS
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (69.05%) Oracle Database
2 9 (21.43%) Oracle Database 12c
2 9 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 7 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (9.52%) RDBMS
5 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.38%) MySQL
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.52%) Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Electronics
6 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Back Office
7 1 (2.38%) Front Office
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) DBA
1 20 (47.62%) Oracle DBA
2 12 (28.57%) Database Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Lead
4 7 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
4 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared DBA
5 6 (14.29%) Administrator
6 5 (11.90%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 5 (11.90%) Technical Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Senior Database Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared DBA
9 1 (2.38%) Oracle Consultant
9 1 (2.38%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.52%) Clustering
2 4 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 9 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (14.29%) AIX
5 5 (11.90%) Solaris
6 4 (9.52%) Unix
7 2 (4.76%) VMS
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (35.71%) High Availability
3 10 (23.81%) Database Security
3 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (21.43%) Database Migration
5 8 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (16.67%) ITIL
6 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 6 (14.29%) Database Tuning
7 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (14.29%) Security Patching
8 5 (11.90%) DevOps
8 5 (11.90%) Line Management
8 5 (11.90%) Service Management
9 4 (9.52%) Migration
9 4 (9.52%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (9.52%) Runbook
10 3 (7.14%) Attestation
10 3 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
10 3 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) OCP
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (52.38%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 19 (45.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
4 5 (11.90%) Terraform
5 4 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (9.52%) Oracle Flashback
6 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 42 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.52%) Dell
4 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.14%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) Delphix
7 1 (2.38%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) Sybase
7 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media