SQL Server DBA Contracts in England

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Server Database Administrator daily rate in England is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 618 730
Rank change year-on-year +94 +112 -124
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 14 30 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.060% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.063% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 35
10th Percentile £385 £413 £363
25th Percentile - £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £595 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% +19.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £666 £563
90th Percentile £603 - £588
UK median daily rate £413 £590 £484
% change year-on-year -30.08% +21.90% +10.00%

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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
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% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

SQL Server DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server DBA in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server 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 Server DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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 +86 8 £488 -22.31% 4
Midlands +31 4 £400 -11.11%
East Midlands +25 3 £400 -20.00%
South East +22 2 £513 +26.15%
West Midlands +25 1 £390 -2.50%
SQL Server DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SQL Server 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 Server DBA in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 11 (78.57%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (50.00%) Azure
6 6 (42.86%) Degree
6 6 (42.86%) High Availability
6 6 (42.86%) Migration
6 6 (42.86%) MCTS
6 6 (42.86%) MCITP
6 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (28.57%) Clustering
7 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
7 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (28.57%) Database Migration
8 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
8 3 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
8 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
8 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
8 3 (21.43%) AWS
8 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
8 3 (21.43%) Windows

SQL Server 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 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (7.14%) OLAP
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (42.86%) High Availability
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 4 (28.57%) Database Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
7 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
7 1 (7.14%) Database Mirroring
7 1 (7.14%) Kanban
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) MCITP
1 6 (42.86%) MCTS
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) RedGate