DBA Contracts in Cardiff

Database Administrator
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Cardiff is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 39 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 11 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.21% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.61% 1.24% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £510 £423 £402
25th Percentile £525 £438 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +13.10% -
75th Percentile £667 £513 £440
90th Percentile £671 £528 £446
South Wales median daily rate £575 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 196 322 508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 96.41% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 256 390
10th Percentile £199 £188 £238
25th Percentile £381 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £538
90th Percentile £616 £628 £638
South Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £11.32 £13.00 £13.45
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% -7.99% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.00 £22.34 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.45 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +7.62%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Cardiff

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Cardiff

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Cardiff

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Cardiff

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

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

1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) Public Cloud
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) MySQL
4 6 (54.55%) QA
5 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
5 5 (45.45%) E-business
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 5 (45.45%) Finance
5 5 (45.45%) Migration
5 5 (45.45%) Oracle
5 5 (45.45%) Windows
5 5 (45.45%) AIX
5 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
5 5 (45.45%) VPN
5 5 (45.45%) Nagios
5 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (45.45%) Terraform
5 5 (45.45%) Grafana
5 5 (45.45%) Change Control
5 5 (45.45%) Ansible
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 4 (36.36%) Project Management
7 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (27.27%) PowerCenter
2 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) AIX
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Change Control
3 5 (45.45%) E-business
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Database Security
7 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
1 5 (45.45%) Grafana
1 5 (45.45%) Nagios
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Graylog
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Informatica
3 3 (27.27%) Splunk