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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 659 781
Rank change year-on-year -12 +122 +188
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 14 1 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.002% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 0.020% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 22
10th Percentile £58,500 - £45,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £43,449 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,307 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -17.73% +2.68%
75th Percentile £140,000 £51,165 £61,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,307 £57,500
% change year-on-year +26.83% -17.73% +17.48%

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 4,409 5,086 9,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.98% 11.65% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 3,470 7,186
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -4.39%

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 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 7 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 13 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
England - 14 £75,000 - 7
London - 9 £107,500 - 2
UK excluding London -24 5 £60,000 +26.83% 4
South West - 3 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 1
Work from Home +22 1 £60,000 +26.83% 2

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:

Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) German Language
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) DBA
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Database Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior DBA
4 3 (21.43%) Administrator
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Database Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) AIX
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Budgeting
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Contract Negotiation
4 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) DataOps
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
5 3 (21.43%) Runbook
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 1 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) PL/SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) Korn
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (35.71%) OCP
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (35.71%) Nagios
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Delphix
3 3 (21.43%) IBM