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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 505 539
Rank change year-on-year -90 +34 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 66 50 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.97% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 40 24
10th Percentile £418 £395 £332
25th Percentile £480 £434 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +1.81% +6.65%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £600
90th Percentile £688 £701 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £549 £589 £485
% change year-on-year -6.83% +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 7,012 5,148 5,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 15.62% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,764 3,395 3,743
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 75 83
10th Percentile £18.15 £13.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.56 £22.16
Median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.31% +20.97% -46.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.25 £55.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +0.45% +56.77% -24.03%

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 27 July 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 14 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 27 July 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 -95 57 £550 - 8
UK excluding London -78 47 £549 -6.83% 8
North of England -50 33 £525 -6.67% 5
North West - 25 £538 - 3
Work from Home -55 8 £501 +10.91% 2
London -62 8 £625 +25.00%
South East -68 7 £548 -21.79% 2
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -52 4 £481 -14.44% 2
Scotland -8 2 - -
South West -48 2 £715 +3.25%
West Midlands -51 2 £550 - 1
Midlands -52 2 £550 - 1
Wales - 1 £500 -

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 (6.06%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.52%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.33%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) OCI
3 7 (10.61%) Azure
4 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (1.52%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (80.30%) Oracle Database
2 18 (27.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 17 (25.76%) SQL Server
4 15 (22.73%) RDBMS
4 15 (22.73%) Relational Database
5 14 (21.21%) Oracle Database 11g
6 12 (18.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 12 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (10.61%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.03%) SQLite
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.52%) Db2
10 1 (1.52%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) GitLab
2 8 (12.12%) Git
3 3 (4.55%) Toad
4 2 (3.03%) Flyway
4 2 (3.03%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Finance
5 3 (4.55%) Military
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (68.18%) DBA
2 41 (62.12%) Oracle DBA
3 19 (28.79%) Administrator
4 18 (27.27%) SQL DBA
5 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) Senior
7 9 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Database Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared DBA
9 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared DBA
9 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Oracle Specialist
10 3 (4.55%) Lead
10 3 (4.55%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Support Specialist
11 2 (3.03%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 2 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
12 1 (1.52%) Oracle Architect
12 1 (1.52%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (6.06%) YAML
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle Streams
4 2 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Public Cloud
2 12 (18.18%) Replication
3 2 (3.03%) Clustering
3 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (57.58%) Linux
2 20 (30.30%) Unix
3 16 (24.24%) AIX
4 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.06%) Solaris
4 4 (6.06%) Windows
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (40.91%) High Availability
3 25 (37.88%) ITIL
4 24 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (36.36%) Migration
5 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (24.24%) Database Tuning
6 16 (24.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (18.18%) Data Migration
7 12 (18.18%) DevOps
7 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (16.67%) Database Security
9 10 (15.15%) Change Management
9 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.15%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (12.12%) Security Hardening
12 7 (10.61%) Service Management
13 6 (9.09%) Runbook
13 6 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 44 (66.67%) SQL
2 25 (37.88%) PL/SQL
3 13 (19.70%) Python
4 8 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.58%) Bash
5 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) JCL
7 1 (1.52%) RPG
Qualifications
1 38 (57.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) DV Cleared
4 9 (13.64%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.03%) OCP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) SLA
2 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.52%) GRC
System Software
1 51 (77.27%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (84.85%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (34.85%) Ansible
3 19 (28.79%) Terraform
4 8 (12.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (4.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.03%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) Commvault
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) IBM