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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 511 566
Rank change year-on-year +42 +55 +116
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 40 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.046% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.93% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 11
10th Percentile £424 £505 £400
25th Percentile £456 £529 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £538
90th Percentile £711 £643 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
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 4,284 4,456 6,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.66% 13.67% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 3,064 4,552
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 53 164
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.39 £24.18 £25.74
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £77.88 £74.00 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard 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 September 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 15 September 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
Yorkshire - 11 £563 -
North of England - 11 £563 -
London +15 9 £536 -2.50% 2
South West - 9 £693 - 2
South East - 5 £625 - 1
West Midlands -11 2 - -
Midlands -12 2 - -
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (97.50%) Oracle Database
2 14 (35.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (22.50%) Oracle Database 12c
3 9 (22.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Electronics
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) DBA
1 26 (65.00%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 3 (7.50%) Database Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared DBA
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Senior DBA
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Database Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 10 (25.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) VMS
6 1 (2.50%) AIX
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (35.00%) DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (27.50%) Task Automation
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) API Integration
4 10 (25.00%) Database Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Migration
6 6 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (15.00%) Database Security
6 6 (15.00%) High Availability
7 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.50%) Line Management
8 4 (10.00%) ITIL
9 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
9 3 (7.50%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.50%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (7.50%) Programme Management
9 3 (7.50%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 10 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) OCP
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (72.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (32.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (30.00%) Ansible
4 10 (25.00%) yum
5 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 3 (7.50%) Sybase
4 2 (5.00%) Delphix
5 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media