Data Guard Contract Job Trends in London

Oracle Data Guard
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 360 396
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 +159
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.064% 0.093%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.44% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile £520 £563 £405
25th Percentile £543 £581 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £631
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% -2.33%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,266 2,294 2,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.90% 14.67% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 1,504 2,087
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £679
90th Percentile £716 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £23.07 £21.33
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £50.75 £27.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.96% -54.24% +136.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £63.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.35 £102.40 £84.13
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +52.66%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Guard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Guard job vacancy trend in London

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Guard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Guard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Central London - 1 £630 -
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DBA
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Database Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) OCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Delphix
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat