Data Guard Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Data Guard
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 507 562
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 32 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.045% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.67% 0.32% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 10
10th Percentile £456 £504 £395
25th Percentile £486 £518 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +20.55% -17.05%
75th Percentile £630 £616 £538
90th Percentile £715 £638 £547
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,810 4,435 5,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.16% 14.24% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,201 2,879 4,220
10th Percentile £305 £315 £305
25th Percentile £413 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 51 160
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £27.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £63.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £35.08 £51.25
% change year-on-year -25.89% -31.55% +105.00%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in England

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in England over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in England

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Guard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 10 £550 -
Yorkshire - 10 £550 -
South West - 9 £693 - 1
London +4 7 £596 +8.41% 1
South East - 3 £500 -
Midlands -28 2 - -
West Midlands -29 2 - -
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 14 (43.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (28.13%) Oracle Exadata
4 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
4 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) DBA
1 23 (71.88%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (21.88%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Lead
4 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared DBA
5 4 (12.50%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.13%) Database Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Database Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Migration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) FastAPI
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Replication
2 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (62.50%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) AIX
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps
2 11 (34.38%) Task Automation
3 10 (31.25%) API Integration
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (21.88%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) Database Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (15.63%) Line Management
8 4 (12.50%) Database Security
9 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (9.38%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (9.38%) High Availability
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) ITIL
9 3 (9.38%) Programme Management
10 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
10 2 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) PL/SQL
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 10 (31.25%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) OCP
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 11 (34.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 10 (31.25%) yum
4 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 3 (9.38%) Sybase
4 1 (3.13%) Delphix
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat