SQL DBA Contracts in England

SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 543 605
Rank change year-on-year +60 +62 -72
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 60 115 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 92 133
10th Percentile £313 £381 £328
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £589 £666 £663
UK median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +17.65%
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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £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 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

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 19 April 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 19 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 +83 35 £513 -6.82% 11
North of England +33 10 £475 -5.00% 1
Midlands +36 6 £400 - 1
West Midlands +31 6 £400 -31.91%
North West +21 5 £425 -15.00% 1
South East +9 5 £500 - 5
North East - 4 £475 -
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 England region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 59 (98.33%) SQL
2 41 (68.33%) SQL Server
3 22 (36.67%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 17 (28.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (28.33%) High Availability
6 16 (26.67%) Azure
7 15 (25.00%) Banking
7 15 (25.00%) Oracle
8 14 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
10 12 (20.00%) Migration
11 11 (18.33%) Clustering
11 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (18.33%) Windows
11 11 (18.33%) DV Cleared
11 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
12 10 (16.67%) Oracle Database
12 10 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (15.00%) Java
13 9 (15.00%) Finance
13 9 (15.00%) Database Tuning
13 9 (15.00%) AWS
14 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
14 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
15 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
15 7 (11.67%) Information Security
15 7 (11.67%) Maven

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 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.33%) IaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (68.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (18.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (10.00%) MySQL
6 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.33%) Power BI
8 2 (3.33%) Tableau
9 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Maven
2 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 15 (25.00%) Banking
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Electronics
5 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.33%) Marketing
5 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.67%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Hibernate
1 7 (11.67%) JPA
2 2 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Clustering
2 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.00%) Replication
4 5 (8.33%) NHS
5 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (28.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (28.33%) High Availability
3 12 (20.00%) Migration
4 9 (15.00%) Database Tuning
5 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.67%) Information Security
6 7 (11.67%) SDLC
6 7 (11.67%) Software Architecture
6 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.00%) Database Migration
7 6 (10.00%) ITIL
8 5 (8.33%) Database Security
8 5 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (8.33%) ETL
8 5 (8.33%) Programme Management
8 5 (8.33%) Server Patching
8 5 (8.33%) Storage Management
9 4 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (98.33%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) Java
3 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 3 (5.00%) Python
6 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.33%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.33%) VBA
7 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) MCITP
5 3 (5.00%) MCSE
5 3 (5.00%) MCTS
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.67%) RedGate