Senior DBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 455 598
Rank change year-on-year +131 +143 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 25 9 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.036% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.038% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 11
10th Percentile - £513 £463
25th Percentile £363 £531 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £538
90th Percentile - £640 £550
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior DBA.

Senior DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior DBA over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Senior DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Senior 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 14 (56.00%) High Availability
2 13 (52.00%) Migration
3 12 (48.00%) Replication
4 10 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (40.00%) SQL
4 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 9 (36.00%) Data Centre
5 9 (36.00%) Azure
5 9 (36.00%) Windows
5 9 (36.00%) ETL
5 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (28.00%) Oracle
6 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database
7 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (20.00%) T-SQL
8 5 (20.00%) JIRA
8 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
8 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 5 (20.00%) Confluence
9 4 (16.00%) AWS
9 4 (16.00%) Elite 3E
10 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
10 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (12.00%) Python

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Elite 3E
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database
3 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (12.00%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Replication
2 9 (36.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) High Availability
2 13 (52.00%) Migration
3 10 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (36.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (12.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (4.00%) Analytics
8 1 (4.00%) Change Control
8 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis
8 1 (4.00%) Database Tuning
8 1 (4.00%) E-Commerce
8 1 (4.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.00%) Prototyping
8 1 (4.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
3 3 (12.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) Sybase
4 1 (4.00%) Intapp