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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.61% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 - -
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
North West median daily rate £538 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -6.83%

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 304 126 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.46% 12.60% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 86 94
10th Percentile £298 £287 £281
25th Percentile £408 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +5.82% -0.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £61.63 £31.58 £32.85
25th Percentile £65.50 £50.66 £37.88
Median hourly rate £76.50 £70.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +48.95% +137.50%
75th Percentile £90.50 £87.13 £76.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.85 £92.95
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £63.40 £22.61
% change year-on-year -1.42% +180.41% -44.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in Manchester

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Flyway
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) DBA
2 9 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (66.67%) SQL DBA
4 5 (41.67%) Administrator
5 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Senior DBA
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) AIX
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (58.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Database Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Database Security
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft