Data Guard Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Oracle Data Guard
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Data Guard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.48% 1.30% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.69% 14.29% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £473 £508
25th Percentile - £480 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -
75th Percentile - £530 £553
90th Percentile - £534 £563
South Wales median daily rate - £506 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -

All Systems Management Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 21 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.22% 9.09% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 24
10th Percentile £293 £162 £290
25th Percentile £296 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £220 £525
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -58.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile £406 £472 £616
90th Percentile £406 £568 £638
South Wales median daily rate £295 £244 £500
% change year-on-year +21.03% -51.25% -16.67%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle