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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 508 562
Rank change year-on-year -95 +54 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 56 42 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 0.82% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 33 22
10th Percentile £429 £390 £326
25th Percentile £500 £425 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £589 £594
90th Percentile £688 £708 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £589 £485
% change year-on-year -6.62% +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 7,096 5,134 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.47% 15.71% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,853 3,396 3,844
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £421 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £519
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.26% -5.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 71 101
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.88 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.21% +42.50% -13.21%

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 13 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 13 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 -97 48 £550 - 24
UK excluding London -76 40 £550 -6.62% 11
North of England -53 26 £550 +41.75% 5
North West - 20 £550 - 5
Work from Home -60 7 £501 +21.33% 3
London -71 7 £625 +25.00% 16
North East - 7 £501 -
South East -71 6 £549 -21.61% 2
South West -37 3 £700 -1.75% 3
Scotland -18 2 - -
Midlands -49 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -53 2 £605 +55.93%
West Midlands -65 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 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) AWS
2 16 (28.57%) OCI
3 5 (8.93%) Azure
4 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.79%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (78.57%) Oracle Database
2 16 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 14 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
4 12 (21.43%) RDBMS
4 12 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
7 5 (8.93%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.57%) SQLite
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.79%) Db2
10 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) GitLab
2 7 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Flyway
3 2 (3.57%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (67.86%) DBA
2 36 (64.29%) Oracle DBA
3 16 (28.57%) Administrator
3 16 (28.57%) SQL DBA
4 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Senior
6 8 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Database Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
9 3 (5.36%) Oracle Specialist
10 2 (3.57%) Lead
10 2 (3.57%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Support Specialist
11 1 (1.79%) Architect
11 1 (1.79%) Oracle Architect
11 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 1 (1.79%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (7.14%) YAML
3 2 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 5 (8.93%) Replication
3 2 (3.57%) Clustering
3 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (58.93%) Linux
2 18 (32.14%) Unix
3 14 (25.00%) AIX
4 4 (7.14%) Solaris
4 4 (7.14%) Windows
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (66.07%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (42.86%) ITIL
3 19 (33.93%) High Availability
4 18 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (32.14%) Migration
5 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (19.64%) Data Migration
8 10 (17.86%) Database Tuning
8 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Change Management
9 9 (16.07%) DevOps
10 8 (14.29%) Security Hardening
11 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.50%) Database Security
11 7 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (12.50%) Service Management
12 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (10.71%) Runbook
12 6 (10.71%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 37 (66.07%) SQL
2 23 (41.07%) PL/SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) JCL
6 1 (1.79%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.36%) Degree
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
System Software
1 41 (73.21%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (82.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (37.50%) Ansible
3 17 (30.36%) Terraform
4 4 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) Remedy
3 1 (1.79%) Commvault
3 1 (1.79%) IBM