Data Guard Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Data Guard
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Guard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Guard over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 329 446
Rank change year-on-year +33 +117 +140
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 8 16 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.97% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 25
10th Percentile £398 £363 £406
25th Percentile £400 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +9.13% +12.00%
75th Percentile £543 £613 £538
90th Percentile £576 £650 -
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -1.82% +9.13% +0.80%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Data Guard
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Guard trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Guard.

Data Guard daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Guard daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) OCI
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Database
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Database Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Solaris
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) AIX
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Database Security
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (37.50%) Security Patching
2 2 (25.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Document Management
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) JCL
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Commvault
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace