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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 498 577
Rank change year-on-year -90 +79 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 24 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.068% 0.056%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 0.42% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 19
10th Percentile £407 £410 £324
25th Percentile £513 £503 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £606 £589 £631
90th Percentile £675 £603 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £560 £363
% change year-on-year +2.77% +54.34% -34.09%

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 6,299 4,745 5,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 16.05% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 3,147 3,820
10th Percentile £314 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.60% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 53 152
10th Percentile £18.74 £15.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £64.20 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £76.89 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £40.00
% change year-on-year +128.31% -39.78% -13.14%

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 10 March 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 12 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 10 March 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
UK excluding London -79 16 £575 +2.77% 4
England -82 16 £563 +2.27% 6
South East - 5 £563 - 2
South West -23 4 £606 - 1
Work from Home -28 4 £606 +14.71% 2
Midlands - 3 £525 -
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
London -42 2 £525 -4.64% 2
North of England -59 2 £525 +35.31% 1
North West - 2 £525 - 1
Scotland +1 1 - -
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 (12.50%) SAS
2 2 (8.33%) Liferay
2 2 (8.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) OCI
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
6 2 (8.33%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (83.33%) Oracle Database
2 9 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 8 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
4 5 (20.83%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (16.67%) MySQL
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (12.50%) SQLPlus
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
8 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.17%) Flyway
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) DBA
1 18 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Database Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Database Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (29.17%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Database Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.50%) Open Source
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (12.50%) Runbook
6 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 3 (12.50%) Statistics
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.33%) Microservices
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) JCL
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (8.33%) Foglight
5 2 (8.33%) systemd
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Commvault
5 1 (4.17%) Google