DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 289 273
Rank change year-on-year +28 -16 +12
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 135 162 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.69% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.73% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 123 193
10th Percentile £375 £363 £328
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £600 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £32.45 £13.85 -
25th Percentile £39.13 £15.88 £45.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £26.40 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.09% -47.21% -
75th Percentile £65.13 £39.14 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.55 £42.66 -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £37.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year +37.71% -19.14% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +46 55 £490 -4.39% 15
Yorkshire +36 29 £450 -17.43% 5
Scotland +50 26 £475 -2.56% 4
South East +15 21 £525 +10.53% 10
North West +12 20 £534 +6.80% 7
Midlands +35 16 £400 - 11
Wales +26 12 £575 +9.52% 1
West Midlands +24 10 £390 +20.00% 8
East Midlands +24 6 £400 - 3
North East +13 6 £475 -9.52% 3
South West -12 3 £593 +15.05% 5
East of England -15 2 £450 +5.88% 6
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 61 (45.19%) SQL
2 50 (37.04%) SQL Server
3 42 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (28.15%) Oracle
5 36 (26.67%) Linux
6 33 (24.44%) High Availability
7 31 (22.96%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (20.00%) Database Security
8 27 (20.00%) MongoDB
9 26 (19.26%) Migration
9 26 (19.26%) DevOps
10 25 (18.52%) Azure
10 25 (18.52%) Security Cleared
11 22 (16.30%) Microsoft
12 21 (15.56%) Windows
12 21 (15.56%) Oracle Database
12 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
13 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
13 20 (14.81%) Relational Database
13 20 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (14.07%) Agile
15 18 (13.33%) RDBMS
15 18 (13.33%) Finance
16 16 (11.85%) Mentoring
17 15 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
17 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (11.11%) Ingres
17 15 (11.11%) PowerShell
18 14 (10.37%) Data Guard
18 14 (10.37%) Oracle Reports

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.52%) Azure
2 12 (8.89%) AWS
3 11 (8.15%) Serverless
4 9 (6.67%) GCP
5 7 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub
9 2 (1.48%) OCI
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) Firewall
1 7 (5.19%) TCP/IP
1 7 (5.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 27 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 21 (15.56%) Oracle Database
4 20 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (14.81%) Relational Database
5 18 (13.33%) RDBMS
6 15 (11.11%) Ingres
7 14 (10.37%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (8.15%) MySQL
8 11 (8.15%) NoSQL
9 10 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.96%) Metadata
12 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (2.96%) Oracle8/8i Database
12 4 (2.96%) Power BI
13 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (5.93%) JIRA
2 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
2 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.33%) Finance
4 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.44%) Electronics
6 6 (4.44%) Marketing
7 5 (3.70%) Banking
8 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.15%) JSON
1 11 (8.15%) Kafka
1 11 (8.15%) XML
2 5 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (2.22%) Middleware
5 2 (1.48%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.93%) Clustering
3 6 (4.44%) Replication
4 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Blog
7 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) NHS
7 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.67%) Linux
2 21 (15.56%) Windows
3 13 (9.63%) Unix
4 9 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.70%) AIX
6 2 (1.48%) HPUX
6 2 (1.48%) Solaris
7 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 33 (24.44%) High Availability
3 31 (22.96%) Performance Tuning
4 27 (20.00%) Database Security
5 26 (19.26%) DevOps
5 26 (19.26%) Migration
6 19 (14.07%) Agile
7 16 (11.85%) Mentoring
8 15 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
8 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (10.37%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (6.67%) Problem Management
11 8 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (5.93%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (5.93%) Change Control
11 8 (5.93%) Data Migration
11 8 (5.93%) Database Tuning
11 8 (5.93%) Performance Monitoring
12 7 (5.19%) Database Migration
12 7 (5.19%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (45.19%) SQL
2 15 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.93%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.19%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.44%) Bash
5 6 (4.44%) Python
6 3 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) CQL
7 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) DV Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.67%) Degree
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.70%) MCITP
5 5 (3.70%) MCTS
6 3 (2.22%) MCSE
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.89%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Data Guard
2 8 (5.93%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (5.93%) Terraform
3 7 (5.19%) Ansible
3 7 (5.19%) Grafana
3 7 (5.19%) Nagios
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 5 (3.70%) Graylog
5 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (28.15%) Oracle
2 22 (16.30%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.19%) SAP
4 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.70%) Splunk
5 3 (2.22%) Google
5 3 (2.22%) IBM
5 3 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (1.48%) Actian
6 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.48%) Sun
7 1 (0.74%) Brio
7 1 (0.74%) Databricks
7 1 (0.74%) EMC
7 1 (0.74%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds