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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 470 533
Rank change year-on-year -59 +63 +120
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 19 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.058% 0.027% 0.044%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.18% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 13
10th Percentile £512 - £427
25th Percentile £522 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £611 £613 £631
90th Percentile £628 - -
UK median daily rate £606 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +5.39% +4.55% +10.00%

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 5,083 3,861 4,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.49% 14.71% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,498 3,489
10th Percentile £312 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 157
10th Percentile £17.67 £14.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +81.13% -39.43% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.66 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +11.18%

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 2 February 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 2 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
London -25 6 £596 - 2
South West -16 4 £606 - 1
South East - 4 £575 - 2
Midlands - 3 £525 -
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
North of England - 1 £480 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £480 - 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 2 (10.53%) Liferay
1 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Storage
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Google Ads
5 1 (5.26%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Oracle Database
2 8 (42.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
4 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) MySQL
4 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (15.79%) SQLPlus
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) DBA
1 16 (84.21%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Database Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Database Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle ADF
3 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (26.32%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) High Availability
2 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (21.05%) Database Migration
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) Runbook
4 3 (15.79%) Statistics
5 2 (10.53%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) Open Source
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (10.53%) Storage Management
6 1 (5.26%) API Integration
6 1 (5.26%) Generative AI
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 13 (68.42%) PL/SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) Bash
4 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) OCP
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (42.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Foglight
3 2 (10.53%) systemd
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (5.26%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft