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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 455 523
Rank change year-on-year -111 +68 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 36 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.086% 0.087% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 0.55% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 10
10th Percentile £494 £373 £363
25th Percentile £513 £404 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -6.10% +1.43%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £665 £633
UK median daily rate £594 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +17.28% -7.95% +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 5,628 3,804 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.83% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 2,605 3,293
10th Percentile £315 £313 £267
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 37 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £36.70 £21.39 £18.34
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -50.45%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -47.83%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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
South East -58 8 £575 -17.86% 1
London -69 8 £625 +25.00% 3
North of England -72 8 £538 +38.53%
South West -31 5 £606 -
West Midlands - 5 £525 -
Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West - 4 £538 -
Yorkshire -65 2 £605 +55.93%
North East - 2 £490 -
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 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.56%) Liferay
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.78%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) OCI
4 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) Oracle Database
2 12 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 5 (13.89%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (13.89%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (13.89%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
6 4 (11.11%) MySQL
7 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 3 (8.33%) SQLPlus
8 2 (5.56%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (5.56%) Flyway
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (16.67%) Finance
1 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (80.56%) DBA
1 29 (80.56%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (22.22%) Administrator
3 6 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared DBA
5 2 (5.56%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Database Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Database Technical Architect
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Senior DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (11.11%) YAML
3 2 (5.56%) Middleware
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.33%) Replication
2 2 (5.56%) Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) AIX
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Solaris
4 2 (5.56%) Windows
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (47.22%) High Availability
3 11 (30.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (22.22%) Security Hardening
6 7 (19.44%) ITIL
6 7 (19.44%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Runbook
8 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.89%) Database Security
8 5 (13.89%) Database Tuning
8 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Task Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Change Management
9 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
9 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.11%) Open Source
9 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) SQL
2 23 (63.89%) PL/SQL
3 9 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (19.44%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.33%) OCP
6 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (61.11%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 31 (86.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (25.00%) Ansible
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Terraform
5 2 (5.56%) Foglight
5 2 (5.56%) systemd
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) IBM