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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 321 398
Rank change year-on-year +22 +77 +144
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 16 20 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.99% 1.17% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 25
10th Percentile £397 £363 £406
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +9.13% +0.80%
75th Percentile £567 £638 £538
90th Percentile £605 £650 -
UK median daily rate £542 £538 £504
% change year-on-year +0.88% +6.65% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 1,609 1,704 3,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.88% 12.91% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,226 2,567
10th Percentile £363 £359 £375
25th Percentile £414 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £683 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 69
10th Percentile £39.45 £40.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £52.75 £48.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £50.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.80% -20.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £55.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £56.50 £78.29
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +150.00%

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 4 August 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 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) OCI
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) Oracle Database
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database 12c
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) DBA
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (37.50%) Database Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) AIX
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Database Security
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (25.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Database Tuning
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 1 (6.25%) Attestation
7 1 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (6.25%) Runbook
7 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) OCP
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (12.50%) OCA
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (6.25%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) SAP