DBA Contracts in Berkshire

Database Administrator
South East > Berkshire

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Berkshire is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 103 117
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -19
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 8 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.40% 0.50% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.53% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile £398 £358 £453
25th Percentile £413 £400 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £443 £510
Median % change year-on-year +15.82% -13.24% -7.27%
75th Percentile £547 £496 £576
90th Percentile £583 £500 £591
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,857 1,702 2,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 94.92% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 1,098 1,482
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £385 £416 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.88% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 55 41
10th Percentile £18.70 £17.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.38 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -1.29%
75th Percentile £70.44 £73.80 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.46 £79.83 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Berkshire

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Berkshire

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Berkshire

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Berkshire

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Reading -7 6 £513 +2.50% 2
Bracknell - 2 £450 -
DBA
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Berkshire region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) MySQL
2 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (37.50%) QA
4 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
4 3 (37.50%) Database Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (25.00%) Grafana
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (25.00%) Ansible
5 2 (25.00%) Graylog
5 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) Splunk
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Nagios

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (25.00%) DB2
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Database Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (25.00%) Change Control
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Database Security
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Graylog
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat