DV Cleared DBA Contracts

Developed Vetting Clearance Database Administrator
UK

The median Developed Vetting Clearance Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 705 841
Rank change year-on-year +135 +136 -175
Contract jobs requiring a DV Cleared DBA 16 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.018% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.019% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile £450 £461 £487
25th Percentile £550 £464 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -20.80% +27.88%
75th Percentile £713 £530 £694
90th Percentile £725 £686 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £490 £430
% change year-on-year -23.47% +13.95% -9.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

DV Cleared DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared DBA in the UK

DV Cleared DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared DBA in the UK

DV Cleared DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared DBA over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared DBA in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared DBA in the UK

DV Cleared DBA
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +121 16 £663 +35.20% 1
London - 13 £675 -
Work from Home +129 6 £650 +36.84%
UK excluding London +62 2 £375 -23.47%
Midlands +36 2 £375 -51.61%
West Midlands +28 2 £375 -51.61%

DV Cleared DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, DV Cleared 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 featuring DV Cleared DBA in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (62.50%) AWS
4 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 6 (37.50%) Python
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (37.50%) Bash
6 4 (25.00%) Database Security
6 4 (25.00%) Database Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
7 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
7 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (12.50%) IaaS
8 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (12.50%) PaaS
8 2 (12.50%) Electronics
8 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
8 2 (12.50%) Finance
8 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing

DV Cleared DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Electronics
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) Database Security
2 4 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) SAP