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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 779 664 781
Rank change year-on-year -115 +117 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 19 6 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.012% 0.020%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 4
10th Percentile £46,910 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,056
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £140,000 £73,377
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +90.80% +5.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - -

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 5,146 4,938 6,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 9.96% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,661 2,857 3,901
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 8 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 September 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 -110 17 £75,000 -46.43% 11
London -52 13 £75,000 -46.43% 6
Work from Home -40 4 £54,138 -5.85% 8
UK excluding London - 4 £60,000 - 7
South West - 2 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £40,800 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 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 10 (52.63%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) IaaS
2 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (89.47%) Oracle Database
2 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 11 (57.89%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) German Language
5 1 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) DBA
2 14 (73.68%) Senior
3 12 (63.16%) Senior DBA
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (52.63%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 4 (21.05%) Database Engineer
7 3 (15.79%) Administrator
8 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 2 (10.53%) Senior Database Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
9 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
9 1 (5.26%) Senior SEO Specialist
9 1 (5.26%) SEO Engineer
9 1 (5.26%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (15.79%) Replication
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) AIX
2 13 (68.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (52.63%) Oracle Linux
3 10 (52.63%) Unix
4 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) High Availability
1 14 (73.68%) ITIL
1 14 (73.68%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (68.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (57.89%) Configuration Management
4 10 (52.63%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (52.63%) Change Management
4 10 (52.63%) Incident Response
4 10 (52.63%) Runbook
4 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Database Security
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 14 (73.68%) Bash
3 12 (63.16%) Korn
3 12 (63.16%) PL/SQL
3 12 (63.16%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (57.89%) Nagios
3 5 (26.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (21.05%) Ansible
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (52.63%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) YouTube