Data Guard Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Oracle Data Guard
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.071% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 219 173 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.61% 16.81% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 110 157
10th Percentile £350 £306 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 8
10th Percentile - - £42.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile £68.25 - £87.75
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.74% -27.26% +8.66%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in Manchester

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle