Data Guard Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Oracle Data Guard
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
South East median daily rate £563 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 369 231 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.96% 13.88% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 163 257
10th Percentile £255 £314 £205
25th Percentile £363 £397 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £523 £625 £608
90th Percentile £606 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £18.44 - £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £12.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +255.88% -74.74% -28.03%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £82.80 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the Thames Valley

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Berkshire - 4 £575 - 1
Data Guard
South East

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DBA
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) OCP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (50.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat