Hybrid/Remote Data Guard Job Trends

Oracle Data Guard
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Guard skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 439 458
Rank change year-on-year +62 +19 +259
Permanent jobs citing Data Guard 1 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% 0.035% 0.098%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.073% 0.25% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - - £55,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,449 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,531 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -5.16% +2.68%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,452 £77,715
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £140,000 £54,531 £57,500
% change year-on-year +156.74% -5.16% +4.55%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,365 2,357 3,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.89% 13.69% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,413 2,786
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,125 £86,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Guard and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Guard job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Guard
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Guard.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) OCA
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle