Data Guard Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Oracle Data Guard
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 55 60
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 3 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.29% 1.82% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% 5.81% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £351 £380 -
25th Percentile £352 £457 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £563 £485
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +15.98% -
75th Percentile £364 £610 £498
90th Percentile £367 £617 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £356 £563 £485
% change year-on-year -36.67% +15.98% -

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 291 172 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 27.79% 31.27% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 118 74
10th Percentile £401 £358 £393
25th Percentile £447 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £618
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% -14.33%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Database Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OCP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft