Data Guard Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Oracle Data Guard
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £559 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
South East median daily rate £575 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

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 requiring systems management skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 290 180 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.59% 14.06% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 125 197
10th Percentile £321 £350 £205
25th Percentile £396 £405 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +13.89% -16.28%
75th Percentile £523 £638 £600
90th Percentile £610 £685 £630
South East median daily rate £484 £500 £497
% change year-on-year -3.25% +0.70% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £18.22 - -
25th Percentile £18.97 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £83.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Guard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Data Guard job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Guard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 3 £588 -
Data Guard
South East

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (66.67%) systemd
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat