Data Guard Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Data Guard
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Guard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Guard over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 395 528
Rank change year-on-year +71 +133 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 7 11 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.057% 0.059% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 0.41% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 32
10th Percentile £583 £389 £378
25th Percentile £594 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £575
90th Percentile - £547 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +14.13%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,675 2,695 6,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.75% 14.48% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 2,015 4,551
10th Percentile £360 £363 £405
25th Percentile £425 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 48 59
10th Percentile £26.62 £30.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £37.13 £45.70 £20.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +16.36% +155.81%
75th Percentile £63.75 £77.67 £73.50
90th Percentile £66.50 £83.25 £85.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £51.25 £25.71
% change year-on-year -36.59% +99.34% +15.39%

Data Guard
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Guard trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Guard.

Data Guard daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DBA
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) E-business
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (14.29%) Nagios
5 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Ariba
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica
3 1 (14.29%) SAP