Data Guard Contracts in the North of England

Oracle Data Guard
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 168 193
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 12 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.048% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.73% 0.39% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 5
10th Percentile £383 £374 £446
25th Percentile £450 £390 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £609 £470 £538
90th Percentile £615 £487 -
England median daily rate £550 £533 £500
% change year-on-year +3.29% +6.50% -7.62%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 692 518 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.64% 12.43% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 346 537
10th Percentile £235 £235 £325
25th Percentile £368 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £556 £564 £625
90th Percentile £645 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 48
10th Percentile £48.54 £28.20 £17.30
25th Percentile £62.86 £37.84 £22.34
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% +8.66% +97.67%
75th Percentile £84.69 £47.47 £46.39
90th Percentile £88.18 £70.85 £64.13
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.08 £51.25
% change year-on-year +56.77% -31.55% +127.78%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in the North of England

Data Guard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the North of England

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the North of England

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the North of England

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Yorkshire +7 12 £550 +13.40% 4
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Git
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DBA
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (75.00%) API Integration
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 8 (66.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Database Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Licensing
5 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Server Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
1 9 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
1 9 (75.00%) yum
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase