DBA Contracts in Reading

Database Administrator
Berkshire > Reading

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Reading is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 81 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -38
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 6 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.30% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £413 - £481
25th Percentile £434 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £566 - £543
90th Percentile £588 - £592
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £443 £500
% change year-on-year +15.82% -11.50% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,112 1,009 1,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.55% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 665 878
10th Percentile £213 £363 £184
25th Percentile £405 £453 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £595
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -3.14% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 8
10th Percentile £33.52 £18.03 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £75.83 £74.00 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £47.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -2.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Reading

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Reading

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Reading over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Reading

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Reading region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 2 (33.33%) DB2
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Database Security
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Graylog
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk