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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 467 542
Rank change year-on-year -101 +75 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 52 33 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.042%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 0.78% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 10
10th Percentile £418 £390 £363
25th Percentile £473 £434 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -0.47% +6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £616
90th Percentile £688 £714 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £538
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +6.65%
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 6,014 4,205 4,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.45% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,118 2,791 3,344
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £516
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.20% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £32.06 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -43.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.30 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 18 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 18 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 -54 29 £525 +35.31% 7
North West - 23 £525 - 5
London -61 8 £625 +25.00%
North East - 7 £501 -
South East -53 6 £549 -21.61% 2
Yorkshire -43 2 £605 +55.93% 2
South West -46 2 £715 +3.25%
Midlands -54 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands -59 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 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.92%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) OCI
3 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.92%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (78.85%) Oracle Database
2 15 (28.85%) Oracle Exadata
2 15 (28.85%) SQL Server
3 12 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 12 (23.08%) Relational Database
4 11 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (19.23%) Oracle Database 11g
6 9 (17.31%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.85%) SQLite
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.92%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.92%) Db2
9 1 (1.92%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) GitLab
2 7 (13.46%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) Toad
4 2 (3.85%) Flyway
4 2 (3.85%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Military
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) DBA
2 31 (59.62%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (26.92%) Administrator
3 14 (26.92%) SQL DBA
4 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior
6 8 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Database Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared DBA
8 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Oracle Specialist
9 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared DBA
10 2 (3.85%) Lead
10 2 (3.85%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Support Specialist
11 1 (1.92%) Cloud Specialist
11 1 (1.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
11 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (7.69%) YAML
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Streams
4 2 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 8 (15.38%) Replication
3 2 (3.85%) Clustering
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) AIX
2 14 (26.92%) Unix
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Solaris
4 3 (5.77%) Windows
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (40.38%) High Availability
3 20 (38.46%) Migration
4 19 (36.54%) ITIL
5 17 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (28.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (23.08%) Database Tuning
9 11 (21.15%) Data Migration
10 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (17.31%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (15.38%) Change Management
12 8 (15.38%) Database Security
12 8 (15.38%) DevOps
12 8 (15.38%) Security Hardening
13 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
13 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (9.62%) Mentoring
15 4 (7.69%) Runbook
15 4 (7.69%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) SQL
2 19 (36.54%) PL/SQL
3 11 (21.15%) Python
4 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (1.92%) RPG
Qualifications
1 31 (59.62%) Security Cleared
2 21 (40.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.54%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (5.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) GRC
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (76.92%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (82.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (38.46%) Ansible
3 16 (30.77%) Terraform
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (5.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.92%) Remedy