Data Guard Contract Job Trends in Wales

Oracle Data Guard
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 44 42 50
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.25% 0.69% 1.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.92% 7.50% 6.52%
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
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 52 40 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.20% 9.17% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 76
10th Percentile £190 £162 £293
25th Percentile £206 £200 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £250 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -50.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £600
90th Percentile - £606 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £18.20 - -
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -60.18% +242.42%
75th Percentile £20.75 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -35.24% +119.57%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Data Guard job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Data Guard
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales +3 1 - -
Data Guard
UK

Data Guard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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