SQL Server DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Server Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 450 500
Rank change year-on-year +76 +50 -81
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 17 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.029% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.031% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £398 £389 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -8.11% +6.63%
75th Percentile £600 £475 £563
90th Percentile - £490 £576
UK median daily rate £413 £590 £484
% change year-on-year -30.08% +21.90% +10.00%

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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

SQL Server DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Scotland - 11 £600 -
Midlands +31 4 £400 -11.11%
East Midlands +25 3 £400 -20.00%
South East +22 2 £513 +26.15%
West Midlands +25 1 £390 -2.50%
SQL Server DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (64.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
4 9 (52.94%) High Availability
5 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
6 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
7 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
7 6 (35.29%) Confluence
7 6 (35.29%) JIRA
7 6 (35.29%) Problem Management
7 6 (35.29%) Atlassian
7 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (35.29%) SQL
7 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
8 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
10 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (17.65%) Windows
10 3 (17.65%) Linux
10 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
10 3 (17.65%) Degree
10 3 (17.65%) MCTS
10 3 (17.65%) MCITP
10 3 (17.65%) Agile
10 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
10 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
10 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
11 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database

SQL Server 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 6 (35.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) OLAP
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (52.94%) High Availability
3 6 (35.29%) Problem Management
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
7 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.88%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Database Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Database Mirroring
7 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (5.88%) Server Patching
7 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) MCITP
3 3 (17.65%) MCTS
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat