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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 465 513
Rank change year-on-year -96 +48 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 61 43 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.052%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 1.12% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 31 8
10th Percentile £418 £396 £492
25th Percentile £485 £444 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £638
90th Percentile £688 £710 £641
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +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 5,063 3,831 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.03% 13.81% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,537 2,767
10th Percentile £308 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -5.01%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 60 59
10th Percentile £21.27 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.20 £82.96 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -30.23%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 34 £550 +6.80% 2
North West - 25 £550 - 2
South East -63 8 £548 -12.40% 1
London -79 8 £625 +23.76% 4
North East - 7 £501 -
Yorkshire -51 5 £481 -6.55%
West Midlands -37 3 £613 - 1
Midlands -46 3 £613 - 1
South West -46 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 4 (6.56%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) AWS
2 18 (29.51%) OCI
3 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.92%) Azure
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.64%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (77.05%) Oracle Database
2 18 (29.51%) Oracle Exadata
3 16 (26.23%) RDBMS
3 16 (26.23%) Relational Database
4 14 (22.95%) SQL Server
5 10 (16.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 10 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (13.11%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (3.28%) SQLite
9 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.64%) Db2
9 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.64%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) GitLab
2 8 (13.11%) Git
3 3 (4.92%) Toad
4 1 (1.64%) Flyway
4 1 (1.64%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
1 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (65.57%) DBA
2 37 (60.66%) Oracle DBA
3 16 (26.23%) SQL DBA
4 15 (24.59%) Administrator
5 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (18.03%) Senior
7 10 (16.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Oracle Specialist
8 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared DBA
9 5 (8.20%) Database Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Support Specialist
10 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared DBA
10 4 (6.56%) Lead
10 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 1 (1.64%) Cloud Specialist
12 1 (1.64%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
12 1 (1.64%) Principal Engineer
12 1 (1.64%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 19 (31.15%) Terraform
3 4 (6.56%) YAML
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle Streams
5 2 (3.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Public Cloud
2 11 (18.03%) Replication
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Clustering
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (55.74%) Linux
2 18 (29.51%) AIX
3 14 (22.95%) Unix
4 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.92%) Solaris
6 2 (3.28%) Windows
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (65.57%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (42.62%) Migration
3 24 (39.34%) High Availability
4 20 (32.79%) ITIL
5 19 (31.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (24.59%) Database Tuning
7 15 (24.59%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (21.31%) Data Migration
10 12 (19.67%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (16.39%) Database Security
12 9 (14.75%) Change Management
12 9 (14.75%) DevOps
13 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
13 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (9.84%) Security Hardening
16 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
16 5 (8.20%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) SQL
2 22 (36.07%) PL/SQL
3 11 (18.03%) Python
4 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.92%) Bash
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (1.64%) RPG
Qualifications
1 37 (60.66%) Security Cleared
2 27 (44.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.95%) DV Cleared
4 9 (14.75%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (8.20%) Degree
6 3 (4.92%) OCP
7 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) GRC
1 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (81.97%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (85.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (37.70%) Ansible
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (4.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Remedy