DBA Contracts in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 349 397
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 -25
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 205 332 457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.66% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.70% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 229 316
10th Percentile £375 £397 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £653 £645
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £14.30 £24.25
25th Percentile - £17.00 £30.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.80 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% -18.13% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £45.00 £50.63
90th Percentile - £70.98 £54.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £34.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% -18.13% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in England

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in England

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in England

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in England

DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
London +51 109 £586 +11.67% 22
North of England +48 57 £490 -4.39% 13
Yorkshire +40 29 £450 -18.18% 6
North West +23 22 £534 +6.80% 4
South East +5 15 £475 - 13
Midlands +21 9 £400 - 9
West Midlands +28 8 £400 +23.08% 7
North East +20 6 £475 -9.52% 3
East of England -11 2 £450 +5.88% 10
South West -18 2 £593 +18.50% 2
East Midlands +17 1 - - 2
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 111 (54.15%) SQL
2 79 (38.54%) Oracle
3 59 (28.78%) SQL Server
4 52 (25.37%) Oracle Database
5 48 (23.41%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (20.98%) Performance Tuning
7 42 (20.49%) AWS
7 42 (20.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (20.00%) Azure
9 39 (19.02%) Security Cleared
9 39 (19.02%) Linux
10 37 (18.05%) Microsoft
11 36 (17.56%) Migration
12 33 (16.10%) Python
13 31 (15.12%) Database Security
14 30 (14.63%) MySQL
15 29 (14.15%) Finance
15 29 (14.15%) DevOps
15 29 (14.15%) Social Skills
16 28 (13.66%) Relational Database
16 28 (13.66%) High Availability
16 28 (13.66%) MongoDB
17 27 (13.17%) Public Sector
18 26 (12.68%) Replication
19 24 (11.71%) Banking
19 24 (11.71%) RDBMS
20 23 (11.22%) Agile
20 23 (11.22%) DV Cleared
21 22 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
22 21 (10.24%) Oracle Reports

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.98%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.49%) IIS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.49%) AWS
2 41 (20.00%) Azure
3 12 (5.85%) GCP
3 12 (5.85%) Serverless
4 8 (3.90%) OCI
5 7 (3.41%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.95%) PaaS
6 4 (1.95%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.46%) IaaS
8 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) Firewall
1 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.98%) VPN
2 1 (0.49%) DNS
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (28.78%) SQL Server
2 52 (25.37%) Oracle Database
3 48 (23.41%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (14.63%) MySQL
5 28 (13.66%) MongoDB
5 28 (13.66%) Relational Database
6 24 (11.71%) RDBMS
7 21 (10.24%) Oracle Reports
8 18 (8.78%) NoSQL
8 18 (8.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (8.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (8.29%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (7.32%) Ingres
11 14 (6.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (6.83%) Sybase ASE
12 11 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (4.39%) DB2
15 7 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (3.41%) Maven
2 6 (2.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (1.95%) Git
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) ERwin
6 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 29 (14.15%) Finance
1 29 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.17%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.71%) Banking
4 12 (5.85%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.37%) Electronics
5 11 (5.37%) Manufacturing
5 11 (5.37%) Marketing
6 10 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.49%) Advertising
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.85%) JSON
1 12 (5.85%) Kafka
1 12 (5.85%) XML
2 11 (5.37%) Hibernate
2 11 (5.37%) JPA
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (1.46%) Spring
4 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.98%) .NET
5 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.98%) Flash
5 2 (0.98%) Middleware
6 1 (0.49%) LDAP
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.68%) Replication
2 14 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.34%) Clustering
4 9 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.93%) NHS
6 6 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.95%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) Derivative
10 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.98%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.49%) Blog
11 1 (0.49%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (19.02%) Linux
2 17 (8.29%) Windows
3 16 (7.80%) Unix
4 9 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.98%) HPUX
6 2 (0.98%) Solaris
7 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.98%) Performance Tuning
2 42 (20.49%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (17.56%) Migration
4 31 (15.12%) Database Security
5 29 (14.15%) DevOps
6 28 (13.66%) High Availability
7 23 (11.22%) Agile
8 22 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.76%) Task Automation
10 19 (9.27%) Database Migration
10 19 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (8.29%) Database Tuning
12 14 (6.83%) Knowledge Transfer
13 13 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (5.85%) ITIL
14 12 (5.85%) Mentoring
15 11 (5.37%) Capacity Planning
15 11 (5.37%) Digital Marketing
15 11 (5.37%) Programme Management
16 10 (4.88%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (54.15%) SQL
2 33 (16.10%) Python
3 18 (8.78%) Bash
3 18 (8.78%) Java
4 15 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.32%) T-SQL
5 12 (5.85%) Perl
6 11 (5.37%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.93%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.46%) VBA
10 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.49%) C#
11 1 (0.49%) CQL
Qualifications
1 39 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.22%) DV Cleared
3 17 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.93%) Degree
6 4 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) MCITP
7 3 (1.46%) MCSE
7 3 (1.46%) MCTS
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.49%) OCP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.41%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.49%) IFRS
2 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (1.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.83%) Ansible
1 14 (6.83%) Data Guard
2 7 (3.41%) Terraform
3 5 (2.44%) Puppet
4 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (1.46%) Grafana
5 3 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.98%) Graylog
6 2 (0.98%) Nagios
6 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.49%) logstash
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 79 (38.54%) Oracle
2 37 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.76%) SAP
4 14 (6.83%) Sybase
5 9 (4.39%) IBM
6 8 (3.90%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.44%) Sun
9 4 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.95%) Google
10 3 (1.46%) Splunk
10 3 (1.46%) Veritas
11 2 (0.98%) Actian
11 2 (0.98%) NEC
11 2 (0.98%) Northgate
12 1 (0.49%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.49%) Brio
12 1 (0.49%) Databricks
12 1 (0.49%) EMC
12 1 (0.49%) Sparx