DBA Contracts in the West Midlands

Database Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the West Midlands is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 128 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 -43
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 9 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.36% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 13
10th Percentile £288 £262 £310
25th Percentile £379 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £400 £400 £495
90th Percentile £494 £633 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
England median hourly rate £51.50 £37.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year +37.71% -19.14% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,237 3,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 94.95% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,535 2,498
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +16.92%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £707 £694 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 81
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £41.44 £26.82 £19.86
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Birmingham +16 7 £400 +23.08% 5
Coventry +12 1 £390 - 1
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 5 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 West Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (55.56%) High Availability
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (44.44%) Statistics
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) Clustering
6 2 (22.22%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Replication
7 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
7 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
7 1 (11.11%) Server Migrations
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (11.11%) Server Management
7 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
7 1 (11.11%) Public Sector

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (44.44%) Statistics
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Server Management
5 1 (11.11%) Server Migrations
5 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft