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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 473 528
Rank change year-on-year -94 +55 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 51 32 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.85% 0.76% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 8
10th Percentile £418 £390 £363
25th Percentile £473 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +8.37% +1.50%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £550
90th Percentile £688 £714 £580
UK median daily rate £550 £547 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% +4.24% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 5,989 4,198 4,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.39% 15.47% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,116 2,788 3,352
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £418 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.60% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.57 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.74 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% +15.38% -43.48%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
North of England -47 29 £525 +35.31% 5
North West - 23 £525 - 5
London -68 7 £625 +25.00% 2
North East - 7 £501 -
South East -61 6 £549 -21.61% 2
South West -38 2 £715 +0.35%
Yorkshire -55 2 £605 +55.93%
Midlands -55 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -64 2 £550 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) OCI
3 4 (7.84%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (78.43%) Oracle Database
2 15 (29.41%) Oracle Exadata
2 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 12 (23.53%) RDBMS
3 12 (23.53%) Relational Database
4 11 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (19.61%) Oracle Database 11g
6 8 (15.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (7.84%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.92%) SQLite
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.96%) Db2
9 1 (1.96%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) GitLab
2 7 (13.73%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) Flyway
3 2 (3.92%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.92%) Toad
General
1 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (64.71%) DBA
2 30 (58.82%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (27.45%) Administrator
3 14 (27.45%) SQL DBA
4 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Senior
6 8 (15.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Database Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared DBA
9 3 (5.88%) Oracle Specialist
9 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
10 2 (3.92%) Lead
10 2 (3.92%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Support Specialist
11 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 1 (1.96%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 1 (1.96%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (7.84%) YAML
3 2 (3.92%) Middleware
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 7 (13.73%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 29 (56.86%) Linux
2 14 (27.45%) AIX
2 14 (27.45%) Unix
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Solaris
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (70.59%) Performance Tuning
2 20 (39.22%) High Availability
2 20 (39.22%) Migration
3 19 (37.25%) ITIL
4 17 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (27.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (23.53%) Database Tuning
8 11 (21.57%) Data Migration
9 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (15.69%) Change Management
10 8 (15.69%) Database Security
10 8 (15.69%) DevOps
10 8 (15.69%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (15.69%) Security Hardening
11 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
11 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 4 (7.84%) Runbook
13 4 (7.84%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 34 (66.67%) SQL
2 19 (37.25%) PL/SQL
3 11 (21.57%) Python
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.84%) Bash
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) RPG
Qualifications
1 30 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) GRC
1 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (76.47%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (82.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (39.22%) Ansible
3 16 (31.37%) Terraform
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (3.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Remedy