SQL DBA Contracts in London

SQL Database Administrator
England > London

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 437 522
Rank change year-on-year +71 +85 -89
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 33 65 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 52
10th Percentile £332 £419 £413
25th Percentile £400 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.12% +23.61%
75th Percentile £587 £638 £625
90th Percentile £633 £666 £663
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +20.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London +26 1 £600 +9.09%
West London - 1 £675 - 1
SQL DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 32 (96.97%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) SQL Server
3 15 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (36.36%) Oracle
5 11 (33.33%) Azure
6 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
6 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
6 10 (30.30%) Banking
7 9 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (27.27%) Java
7 9 (27.27%) Database Tuning
8 8 (24.24%) AWS
8 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (24.24%) Migration
8 8 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
9 7 (21.21%) Information Security
9 7 (21.21%) Hibernate
9 7 (21.21%) Maven
9 7 (21.21%) Management Information System
9 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
9 7 (21.21%) JPA
9 7 (21.21%) Software Architecture
9 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (21.21%) SDLC
10 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
10 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) MySQL
10 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.06%) IaaS
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (60.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
3 9 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (18.18%) MySQL
5 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
8 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
8 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
8 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
9 1 (3.03%) Metadata
9 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Maven
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 10 (30.30%) Banking
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.03%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Hibernate
1 7 (21.21%) JPA
2 2 (6.06%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (21.21%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) NHS
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (27.27%) Database Tuning
3 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 7 (21.21%) Information Security
4 7 (21.21%) SDLC
4 7 (21.21%) Software Architecture
4 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) High Availability
5 5 (15.15%) Storage Management
6 4 (12.12%) Database Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Database Security
6 4 (12.12%) ETL
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.09%) Capacity Management
7 3 (9.09%) Data Integration
7 3 (9.09%) ITIL
8 2 (6.06%) DevOps
8 2 (6.06%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (96.97%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
4 3 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) VB.NET
5 2 (6.06%) VBA
6 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) MCITP
4 3 (9.09%) MCTS
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Oracle
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) RedGate