SQL DBA Contracts in England

SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 532 606
Rank change year-on-year +59 +74 -52
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 63 122 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 99 131
10th Percentile £313 £381 £325
25th Percentile £395 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £598
90th Percentile £588 £666 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.27% +16.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - £37.19 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

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 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +75 32 £500 -9.09% 13
Midlands +32 12 £400 - 1
North of England +29 10 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +26 8 £395 -32.77% 1
South East +19 5 £500 - 6
North West +18 5 £425 -13.62%
East Midlands +16 4 £400 -
North East - 4 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 England region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 60 (95.24%) SQL
2 42 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 24 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (34.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 21 (33.33%) High Availability
6 16 (25.40%) Banking
7 15 (23.81%) Oracle
7 15 (23.81%) Windows
7 15 (23.81%) Azure
8 13 (20.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
9 12 (19.05%) Migration
9 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
10 11 (17.46%) Windows Server
10 11 (17.46%) Clustering
10 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (17.46%) DV Cleared
10 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (15.87%) Oracle Database
11 10 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (14.29%) Java
12 9 (14.29%) Finance
12 9 (14.29%) Database Tuning
12 9 (14.29%) AWS
13 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
13 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
14 7 (11.11%) Active Directory

SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) Azure
2 9 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (4.76%) PaaS
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.17%) IaaS
4 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.59%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (17.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle Database
5 6 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (9.52%) MySQL
6 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.17%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.17%) Power BI
9 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Maven
2 5 (7.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 16 (25.40%) Banking
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Electronics
6 5 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 5 (7.94%) Marketing
6 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Local Government
8 1 (1.59%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Hibernate
1 7 (11.11%) JPA
2 2 (3.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Clustering
2 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.94%) NHS
3 5 (7.94%) Replication
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 11 (17.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.35%) Linux
4 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Performance Tuning
2 22 (34.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (33.33%) High Availability
4 12 (19.05%) Migration
5 9 (14.29%) Database Tuning
6 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.11%) Information Security
7 7 (11.11%) SDLC
7 7 (11.11%) Software Architecture
7 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.52%) Database Migration
8 6 (9.52%) ITIL
8 6 (9.52%) Storage Management
9 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (7.94%) Database Security
9 5 (7.94%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (7.94%) ETL
9 5 (7.94%) Programme Management
9 5 (7.94%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 60 (95.24%) SQL
2 9 (14.29%) Java
3 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.35%) Python
6 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.17%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.17%) VBA
8 1 (1.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) DV Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) MCITP
3 7 (11.11%) MCTS
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) MCSE
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.59%) QA
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.81%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) RedGate