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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 461 531
Rank change year-on-year -97 +70 +124
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 17 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.046% 0.057% 0.040%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.36% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £512 £377 £371
25th Percentile £513 £444 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -14.89% +11.90%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £631
90th Percentile £606 £590 -
UK median daily rate £563 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +3.31% +3.71% +3.96%

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 5,429 3,875 4,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.67% 15.84% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 2,617 3,284
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 42 135
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -17.19% -40.93%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.38 £58.38
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.02 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 - 5 £563 -
South West -17 4 £606 -
North of England -70 3 £538 +41.35%
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
Midlands - 3 £525 -
North West - 3 £538 -
London -55 2 £525 -0.10% 3
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 2 (11.76%) Liferay
1 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Storage
3 3 (17.65%) OCI
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle Database
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Exadata
3 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
4 4 (23.53%) MySQL
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (17.65%) SQLPlus
6 2 (11.76%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (11.76%) Flyway
2 2 (11.76%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) DBA
1 14 (82.35%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Database Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Database Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Database Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle ADF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) AIX
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (41.18%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Open Source
4 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
5 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Runbook
5 3 (17.65%) Statistics
5 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Build Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 3 (17.65%) OCP
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Clusterware
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 2 (11.76%) Foglight
4 2 (11.76%) systemd
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Google