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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 477 521
Rank change year-on-year -88 +44 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 62 40 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.046%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.22% 1.04% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 7
10th Percentile £418 £424 £505
25th Percentile £490 £456 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £711 £643
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
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 5,068 3,849 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.97% 13.87% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 2,544 2,732
10th Percentile £309 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 64 52
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £44.86 £21.39 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.00 £37.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +77.48% -3.82% -25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 33 £550 -2.22% 2
North West - 24 £550 - 2
London -88 10 £619 +15.38% 5
South East -59 8 £548 -12.40% 3
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -45 5 £481 -14.44%
Midlands -42 3 £613 -
West Midlands -45 3 £613 -
South West -49 2 £715 +3.25%
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 5 (8.06%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (35.48%) AWS
2 18 (29.03%) OCI
3 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.84%) Azure
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
5 1 (1.61%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (77.42%) Oracle Database
2 18 (29.03%) Oracle Exadata
3 16 (25.81%) Relational Database
4 15 (24.19%) RDBMS
5 14 (22.58%) SQL Server
6 11 (17.74%) Oracle Database 11g
7 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (14.52%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (3.23%) SQLite
11 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.61%) Db2
11 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.61%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) GitLab
2 8 (12.90%) Git
3 3 (4.84%) Toad
4 1 (1.61%) Flyway
4 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Military
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (64.52%) DBA
2 37 (59.68%) Oracle DBA
3 16 (25.81%) SQL DBA
4 15 (24.19%) Administrator
5 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (16.13%) Senior
6 10 (16.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) Oracle Specialist
8 6 (9.68%) Database Engineer
8 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared DBA
9 5 (8.06%) Lead
9 5 (8.06%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Support Specialist
10 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared DBA
10 4 (6.45%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.84%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 1 (1.61%) Cloud Specialist
12 1 (1.61%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 1 (1.61%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
12 1 (1.61%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 18 (29.03%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) YAML
4 3 (4.84%) Middleware
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Public Cloud
2 11 (17.74%) Replication
3 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (54.84%) Linux
2 17 (27.42%) AIX
3 15 (24.19%) Unix
4 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.84%) Solaris
6 2 (3.23%) Windows
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (66.13%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (43.55%) Migration
3 25 (40.32%) High Availability
4 22 (35.48%) ITIL
5 19 (30.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (24.19%) Database Tuning
7 15 (24.19%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (19.35%) Data Migration
9 12 (19.35%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (16.13%) Change Management
10 10 (16.13%) Database Security
11 9 (14.52%) DevOps
12 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
13 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (9.68%) Data Encryption
14 6 (9.68%) Incident Management
14 6 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (62.90%) SQL
2 22 (35.48%) PL/SQL
3 12 (19.35%) Python
4 7 (11.29%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.45%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.61%) Korn
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.61%) RPG
Qualifications
1 36 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.52%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (8.06%) Degree
6 3 (4.84%) OCP
7 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) GRC
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (80.65%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (83.87%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (37.10%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (4.84%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) IBM
4 1 (1.61%) Remedy