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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 458 526
Rank change year-on-year -99 +68 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 35 25 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.10% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.62% 0.65% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 9
10th Percentile £491 £380 £363
25th Percentile £513 £416 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £550
90th Percentile £709 £700 £635
UK median daily rate £606 £542 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -1.41% +9.13%

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 5,646 3,860 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,870 2,621 3,369
10th Percentile £319 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -1.91% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.88 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.71% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £52.63
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -70 10 £575 +48.20% 2
London -76 8 £625 +25.00% 2
South West -21 6 £606 -10.22%
North West - 5 £550 -
West Midlands -56 4 £538 -
South East -57 4 £650 -7.14% 1
Midlands -62 4 £538 -
North East - 3 £501 - 2
Yorkshire -53 2 £605 +55.93%
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 3 (8.57%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.86%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) OCI
3 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (82.86%) Oracle Database
2 12 (34.29%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (22.86%) Oracle Exadata
4 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (17.14%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
6 4 (11.43%) MySQL
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
7 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
7 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (5.71%) SQLPlus
9 1 (2.86%) Db2
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) Flyway
3 2 (5.71%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
1 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) DBA
1 26 (74.29%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (22.86%) Administrator
3 6 (17.14%) Database Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Database Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Database Technical Architect
7 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared DBA
7 1 (2.86%) Lead
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
7 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (11.43%) YAML
3 2 (5.71%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Replication
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Linux
2 10 (28.57%) Unix
3 5 (14.29%) AIX
4 3 (8.57%) Windows
5 2 (5.71%) Solaris
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (48.57%) High Availability
3 12 (34.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (28.57%) Migration
5 8 (22.86%) ITIL
5 8 (22.86%) Security Hardening
6 6 (17.14%) Database Tuning
6 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.14%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (14.29%) Change Management
7 5 (14.29%) Database Security
7 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
8 4 (11.43%) Runbook
8 4 (11.43%) Security Patching
8 4 (11.43%) Service Management
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) SQL
2 22 (62.86%) PL/SQL
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 6 (17.14%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) RPG
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) DV Cleared
3 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (65.71%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Clusterware
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (85.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (31.43%) Ansible
3 7 (20.00%) Terraform
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (2.86%) Foglight
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) IBM