Data Guard Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Data Guard
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Guard skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 - 676
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 7 0 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% - 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 17
10th Percentile - - £46,500
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.22%
75th Percentile - - £60,250
90th Percentile - - £60,650
UK median annual salary £75,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -8.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Data Guard falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,361 2,380 6,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.15% 9.17% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,725 1,697 4,467
10th Percentile £31,100 £36,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Guard relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Guard job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Guard
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Guard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 4 £60,000 -
North of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) DBA
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (57.14%) Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 2 (28.57%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
1 2 (28.57%) Database Security
1 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) High Availability
1 2 (28.57%) Hydrography
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Clusterware
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle