DBA Contracts in Wales

Database Administrator
UK > Wales

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Wales is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 60 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 -11
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 12 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.99% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.36% 0.50% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £510 £414 £403
25th Percentile £525 £416 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £435
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% +0.57% -8.66%
75th Percentile £667 £503 £471
90th Percentile £671 £531 £510
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 357 600 977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 95.09% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 465 717
10th Percentile £188 £166 £178
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 40
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.25 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £12.81
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £27.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £45.75 £46.93
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Wales

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Wales

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Wales

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Wales

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
South Wales +25 11 £575 +17.95% 1
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 Wales region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) AWS
4 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) MySQL
4 6 (50.00%) Oracle
4 6 (50.00%) QA
5 5 (41.67%) E-business
5 5 (41.67%) Firewall
5 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 5 (41.67%) Nagios
5 5 (41.67%) Windows
5 5 (41.67%) AIX
5 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (41.67%) VPN
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
5 5 (41.67%) Ansible
5 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (41.67%) Terraform
5 5 (41.67%) Grafana
5 5 (41.67%) Data Guard
5 5 (41.67%) Change Control
6 4 (33.33%) Project Management
7 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (25.00%) JIRA

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (25.00%) PowerCenter
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) AIX
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Change Control
3 5 (41.67%) E-business
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Database Security
7 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Data Guard
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
1 5 (41.67%) Nagios
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Graylog
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Informatica
3 3 (25.00%) Splunk