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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 732 711
Rank change year-on-year +77 -21 +310
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 11 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.015% 0.049%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% 0.15% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £58,750 - £38,750
25th Percentile - £43,449 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £54,531 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +156.74% -9.12% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £65,452 £77,715
90th Percentile £150,000 - £89,129
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,307 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.99% -

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 4,870 6,515 8,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 9.57% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 3,884 6,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +4.55%

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 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 5 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 7 November 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 +107 11 £140,000 - 2
London +52 8 £140,000 - 1
Work from Home +56 2 £57,500 +5.45% 1
UK excluding London +58 1 - - 1
South West - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 8 (72.73%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Electronics
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
1 8 (72.73%) Database Architect
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle Architect
2 3 (27.27%) DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (90.91%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (72.73%) Budgeting
3 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
3 8 (72.73%) Contract Negotiation
3 8 (72.73%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
3 8 (72.73%) DataOps
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) AI
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Database Security
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (9.09%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) OCP
1 10 (90.91%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (72.73%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) OCA
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (72.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Nagios
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (72.73%) Delphix
3 1 (9.09%) SAP