Data Guard Contracts in the South East

Oracle Data Guard
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 - 209
Rank change year-on-year - - +50
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% - 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £533 £500
% change year-on-year +3.29% +6.50% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 490 733 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.01% 14.70% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 540 530
10th Percentile £266 £278 £298
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £663
90th Percentile £623 £675 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £572
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.22% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.63 £23.60
25th Percentile £23.44 £30.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -32.58% +23.60%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.56 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £53.45 £71.48
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.08 £52.50
% change year-on-year +56.77% -33.18% +133.33%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Surrey - 3 £500 - 2
Thames Valley - 2 £700 -
Berkshire - 2 £700 -
Data Guard
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) BCP
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Sybase