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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 792 672 755
Rank change year-on-year -120 +83 -41
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 16 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.016% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £46,724 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £69,688 £100,625 £43,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £140,000 £61,754
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +126.71% -11.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £65,452
90th Percentile - - £78,681
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,800 - £47,307
% change year-on-year - - -17.73%

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 5,379 4,985 6,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 10.02% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,688 2,833 3,670
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -127 14 £75,000 -46.43% 8
London -57 12 £75,000 -46.43% 6
Work from Home -29 3 £44,538 -22.54% 5
UK excluding London - 2 £40,800 - 2
Scotland - 1 £40,800 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 10 (62.50%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) IaaS
1 3 (18.75%) PaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Oracle Database
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (68.75%) Banking
2 11 (68.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Senior
2 12 (75.00%) DBA
3 10 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (62.50%) Senior DBA
3 10 (62.50%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 4 (25.00%) Database Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Database Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Database Specialist
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (6.25%) Administrator
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior SEO Specialist
7 1 (6.25%) SEO Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (6.25%) Replication
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 13 (81.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (75.00%) AIX
4 10 (62.50%) Oracle Linux
4 10 (62.50%) Unix
5 2 (12.50%) Windows
6 1 (6.25%) Solaris
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) ITIL
1 14 (87.50%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (81.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (75.00%) High Availability
4 11 (68.75%) Configuration Management
5 10 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (62.50%) Change Management
5 10 (62.50%) Incident Response
5 10 (62.50%) Runbook
5 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Database Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (12.50%) Community of Practice
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 13 (81.25%) Bash
3 11 (68.75%) Korn
3 11 (68.75%) PL/SQL
3 11 (68.75%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (68.75%) Nagios
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (62.50%) IBM
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) YouTube
5 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow