Data Guard Contracts in England

Oracle Data Guard
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Guard skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Guard over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 538 599
Rank change year-on-year +76 +61 +84
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 30 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.035% 0.068%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 0.28% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 15
10th Percentile £389 £363 £403
25th Percentile £428 £445 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £694 £550 £538
90th Percentile £715 £580 £575
UK median daily rate £547 £525 £504
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.17% +0.80%
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 3,956 4,619 7,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.79% 12.36% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,658 3,363 5,137
10th Percentile £305 £299 £350
25th Percentile £413 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.35% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 95 160
10th Percentile £21.39 £15.79 £18.48
25th Percentile £26.60 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.00 £54.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% -42.78% +148.74%
75th Percentile £63.58 £48.75 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.59 £71.25 £85.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.19% -44.35% +155.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in England

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in England

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in England

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 24 June 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
London +58 11 £500 -9.09% 13
South West - 8 £713 - 3
North of England +28 3 £388 -9.77% 7
Yorkshire +5 3 £388 -20.00% 1
Midlands +9 2 - - 2
West Midlands +6 2 - - 1
South East - 2 £700 - 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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
1 6 (20.00%) OCI
2 5 (16.67%) PaaS
2 5 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (76.67%) Oracle Database
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Electronics
3 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.00%) Marketing
3 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Back Office
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) DBA
1 16 (53.33%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Lead
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Administrator
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle Technical Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Database Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior
7 1 (3.33%) Senior DBA
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Windows
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) VMS
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Database Migration
1 9 (30.00%) High Availability
1 9 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (23.33%) Database Security
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Line Management
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (13.33%) Runbook
5 3 (10.00%) Attestation
5 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (10.00%) Document Management
5 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (10.00%) Migration
5 3 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (10.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (56.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) OCP
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) NFS
3 1 (3.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (36.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.67%) Terraform
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Delphix
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media