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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 516 543
Rank change year-on-year -101 +27 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 65 44 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.053%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.07% 0.94% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 32 11
10th Percentile £418 £403 £500
25th Percentile £500 £448 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £709 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £549 £591 £506
% change year-on-year -7.07% +16.64% +6.58%
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 6,061 4,681 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 14.26% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 3,028 2,985
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £682 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £493
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.59% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 95 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.05 £19.85
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +153.92% -32.13% -33.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £88.12 £67.15 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -23.38%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -103 58 £549 -2.44% 11
UK excluding London -86 46 £549 -7.07% 6
North of England -52 31 £525 -6.67% 2
North West - 23 £550 - 1
London -91 10 £510 -4.90% 7
South East -53 8 £548 -12.40% 2
Work from Home -72 8 £501 +11.22% 8
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -43 4 £363 -35.56% 1
Midlands -40 3 £613 - 1
West Midlands -45 3 £613 - 1
South West -42 2 £715 +3.25%
Scotland -23 1 - -
Wales - 1 £500 - 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 6 (9.23%) WebLogic
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.92%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) OCI
3 5 (7.69%) Azure
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
4 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.54%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (76.92%) Oracle Database
2 19 (29.23%) Oracle Exadata
3 18 (27.69%) Relational Database
4 16 (24.62%) RDBMS
4 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
5 12 (18.46%) Oracle Database 11g
5 12 (18.46%) Oracle Database 12c
6 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (9.23%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.08%) SQLite
9 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.54%) Db2
9 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.54%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (12.31%) Git
3 3 (4.62%) Toad
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Military
6 1 (1.54%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (67.69%) DBA
2 40 (61.54%) Oracle DBA
3 19 (29.23%) SQL DBA
4 18 (27.69%) Administrator
5 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.38%) Senior
6 10 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Oracle Specialist
8 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (9.23%) Lead
10 5 (7.69%) Support Specialist
11 4 (6.15%) Database Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared DBA
11 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 4 (6.15%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 1 (1.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 1 (1.54%) Oracle Architect
14 1 (1.54%) Oracle Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 18 (27.69%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Middleware
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle Streams
5 2 (3.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 12 (18.46%) Replication
3 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 38 (58.46%) Linux
2 19 (29.23%) Unix
3 17 (26.15%) AIX
4 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.62%) Solaris
6 2 (3.08%) Windows
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Performance Tuning
2 30 (46.15%) Migration
3 27 (41.54%) ITIL
4 25 (38.46%) High Availability
5 18 (27.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (24.62%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (20.00%) Database Tuning
10 12 (18.46%) Data Migration
11 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
11 11 (16.92%) Database Security
11 11 (16.92%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (15.38%) Change Management
13 8 (12.31%) DevOps
13 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (10.77%) Data Encryption
14 7 (10.77%) Incident Management
15 6 (9.23%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) SQL
2 21 (32.31%) PL/SQL
3 11 (16.92%) Python
4 6 (9.23%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.69%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Korn
7 2 (3.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.54%) RPG
Qualifications
1 38 (58.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (43.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (7.69%) Degree
6 3 (4.62%) OCP
7 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (83.08%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (81.54%) Oracle RMAN
2 22 (33.85%) Ansible
3 8 (12.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (4.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.08%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) IBM