Data Guard Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Oracle Data Guard
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 37 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.34% 0.84% 1.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.23% 9.68% 7.23%
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
Wales median daily rate - £506 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -

All Systems Management Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 31 31 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 10.40% 8.68% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 68
10th Percentile £190 £162 £281
25th Percentile £256 £200 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £244 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.03% -51.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £353 £455 £600
90th Percentile £461 £591 £638
Wales median daily rate £298 £250 £500
% change year-on-year +19.00% -50.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +213.89%
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% -60.18% +242.42%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in South Wales

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Data Guard

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Cardiff -2 1 - -
Data Guard
Wales

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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