Data Guard Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Oracle Data Guard
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.073% - 0.037%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +15.00% -14.89% +11.90%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 560 248 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.55% 13.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 170 219
10th Percentile £263 £200 £190
25th Percentile £406 £326 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £689 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.18 £15.38
25th Percentile £25.00 £12.94 £22.95
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.19 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +301.48% -37.16% +21.60%
75th Percentile £74.00 £17.89 £33.36
90th Percentile £76.80 £18.13 £55.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Guard

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Guard

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
Data Guard
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (66.67%) Liferay
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQLPlus
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle APEX
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle ADF
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Clusterware
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle