Data Guard Job Trends

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Guard skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 743 710
Rank change year-on-year +95 -33 +355
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 8 12 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.017% 0.055%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 22
10th Percentile £56,250 - £45,000
25th Percentile £100,625 £43,449 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £61,754 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +126.71% -11.08% +26.27%
75th Percentile - £65,452 £77,715
90th Percentile - £78,681 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,307 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -21.16% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,266 6,806 8,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 9.59% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 4,069 6,892
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.43% -3.40% +8.23%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Guard
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 3 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. 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
England +114 8 £140,000 +64.71% 2
London +69 6 £140,000 +64.71% 1
Work from Home +53 2 £57,500 +5.45% 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Database Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Architect
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (75.00%) Budgeting
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 6 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (75.00%) DataOps
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) OCP
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (75.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) OCA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Delphix
3 1 (12.50%) SAP