SQL DBA Contracts in Birmingham

SQL Database Administrator
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in Birmingham is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 76 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.65% 0.11% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.12% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £383 - £325
25th Percentile £394 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £447 - £486
90th Percentile £531 - £541
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £588 £425
% change year-on-year -31.91% +38.24% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 705 868 1,274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 96.02% 95.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 581 937
10th Percentile £250 £263 £205
25th Percentile £325 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £581
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 23
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured SQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in Birmingham

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in Birmingham

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in Birmingham

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in Birmingham

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, SQL DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Clustering
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Replication
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) SLA
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Server Management
5 1 (20.00%) Storage Management

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft