DBA Contracts in Manchester

Database Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Manchester is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 108 107
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 -22
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 18 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.18% 0.53% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.54% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 31
10th Percentile £520 £358 -
25th Percentile £533 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £600
90th Percentile £540 £600 £663
North West median daily rate £534 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.70% - +48.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,464 1,835 2,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.75% 96.63% 97.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,368 1,979
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £691 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 59 61
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.20 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £48.13 £23.53
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Manchester region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) MongoDB
2 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 15 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 15 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (83.33%) Relational Database
3 14 (77.78%) Serverless
3 14 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (77.78%) Agile
3 14 (77.78%) XML
3 14 (77.78%) NoSQL
3 14 (77.78%) JSON
3 14 (77.78%) Kafka
3 14 (77.78%) Database Security
3 14 (77.78%) DevOps
3 14 (77.78%) Mentoring
4 13 (72.22%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) Linux
6 2 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (5.56%) Database Optimisation
7 1 (5.56%) Databricks
7 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
7 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
7 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
7 1 (5.56%) Ansible
7 1 (5.56%) F5

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 14 (77.78%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) MongoDB
2 15 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 15 (83.33%) Relational Database
3 14 (77.78%) NoSQL
3 14 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (72.22%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
6 1 (5.56%) DB2
6 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (5.56%) MySQL
6 1 (5.56%) OLTP
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) JSON
1 14 (77.78%) Kafka
1 14 (77.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 14 (77.78%) Database Security
2 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.56%) Data Management
3 1 (5.56%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (5.56%) ETL
3 1 (5.56%) High Availability
3 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
3 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) F5