SQL Database Administrator
UK

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 565 649
Rank change year-on-year +75 +84 -59
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 100 138 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 107 158
10th Percentile £344 £384 £334
25th Percentile £400 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £588
90th Percentile £600 £666 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - £37.19 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £34.80 -

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +67 65 £425 -15.00% 21
Work from Home +120 56 £475 -5.00% 11
UK excluding London +54 52 £475 -5.00% 14
London +62 32 £500 -9.09% 11
Scotland - 22 £563 - 3
Midlands +34 12 £400 - 2
North of England +25 10 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +31 8 £395 -32.77% 1
South East +12 7 £550 +10.00% 5
North West +16 5 £425 -13.62%
East Midlands +20 4 £400 - 1
North East - 4 £475 - 2
Wales +20 1 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 89 (89.00%) SQL
2 76 (76.00%) SQL Server
3 39 (39.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 39 (39.00%) High Availability
4 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
4 28 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
5 27 (27.00%) Azure
6 25 (25.00%) Windows
6 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 21 (21.00%) Migration
7 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
8 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 18 (18.00%) Banking
9 18 (18.00%) Oracle
10 15 (15.00%) Clustering
10 15 (15.00%) T-SQL
11 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
11 14 (14.00%) Windows Server
12 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (13.00%) Problem Management
12 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
12 13 (13.00%) DV Cleared
13 12 (12.00%) Database Tuning
13 12 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (12.00%) Finance
14 11 (11.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 11 (11.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.00%) Azure
2 10 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (3.00%) PaaS
4 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.00%) IaaS
4 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (76.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (11.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (11.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (10.00%) MySQL
5 10 (10.00%) Oracle Database
6 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.00%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Maven
2 6 (6.00%) JIRA
3 5 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Banking
3 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.00%) Finance
5 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.00%) Electronics
7 5 (5.00%) Marketing
7 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (7.00%) JPA
2 2 (2.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Clustering
2 10 (10.00%) Replication
3 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.00%) NHS
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.00%) Windows
2 14 (14.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (2.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 39 (39.00%) High Availability
2 28 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (21.00%) Migration
4 13 (13.00%) Problem Management
4 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.00%) Database Tuning
6 9 (9.00%) ETL
6 9 (9.00%) ITIL
7 8 (8.00%) Agile
7 8 (8.00%) Database Security
7 8 (8.00%) Server Patching
8 7 (7.00%) Information Security
8 7 (7.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (7.00%) SDLC
8 7 (7.00%) Service Management
8 7 (7.00%) Software Architecture
8 7 (7.00%) Software Engineering
8 7 (7.00%) Storage Management
8 7 (7.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (89.00%) SQL
2 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.00%) Java
5 4 (4.00%) Python
6 3 (3.00%) Bash
7 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.00%) VBA
8 1 (1.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (13.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.00%) Degree
5 7 (7.00%) MCITP
5 7 (7.00%) MCTS
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.00%) MCSE
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) QA
2 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.00%) Ansible
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (2.00%) Puppet
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.00%) Nagios
4 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.00%) Oracle
3 6 (6.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) RedGate