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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 500 558
Rank change year-on-year -108 +58 +127
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 32 25 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.086% 0.070%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.54% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 24
10th Percentile £436 £396 £332
25th Percentile £513 £444 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.04% -1.41% +4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £587 £631
90th Percentile £656 £596 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £545 £425
% change year-on-year +5.60% +28.12% -19.05%

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 6,471 4,662 5,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.14% 15.95% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,448 3,183 3,772
10th Percentile £316 £313 £259
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -9.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 52 132
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.09 £22.50 £17.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.06 £55.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £79.05 £72.25 £68.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £30.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -19.40% -34.86%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -115 23 £575 +15.00% 4
UK excluding London -88 18 £575 +5.60% 2
London -62 5 £625 +19.05% 4
South East - 5 £563 - 1
South West -22 4 £606 -
Work from Home -36 4 £606 +14.71% 1
North of England -69 4 £550 +44.64%
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £525 -
North West - 3 £538 -
Scotland +4 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -56 1 £610 +60.42%
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 (9.38%) SAS
2 2 (6.25%) Liferay
2 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) OCI
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Storage
5 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 2 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (3.13%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
1 3 (9.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (87.50%) Oracle Database
2 10 (31.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 9 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
6 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (15.63%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (15.63%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
7 4 (12.50%) MySQL
8 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (9.38%) SQLPlus
9 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (6.25%) Flyway
2 2 (6.25%) Liquibase
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) DBA
1 22 (68.75%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (15.63%) Administrator
2 5 (15.63%) Database Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Database Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared DBA
6 1 (3.13%) Senior DBA
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (9.38%) YAML
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Windows
4 5 (15.63%) Unix
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Solaris
6 1 (3.13%) AIX
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (34.38%) High Availability
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (18.75%) Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Runbook
6 5 (15.63%) Agile
6 5 (15.63%) Database Tuning
7 4 (12.50%) Change Management
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Database Migration
7 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 4 (12.50%) Open Source
7 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.38%) Data Protection
8 3 (9.38%) Re-Platforming
8 3 (9.38%) Security Patching
8 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) SQL
2 21 (65.63%) PL/SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) JCL
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle Certification
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (31.25%) Ansible
3 8 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (6.25%) Foglight
5 2 (6.25%) systemd
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Commvault
5 1 (3.13%) Google