Senior DBA Contracts in England

Senior Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 628 766
Rank change year-on-year +100 +138 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 10 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.040% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.042% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 18
10th Percentile - £450 £426
25th Percentile £363 £470 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £609 £550
90th Percentile - £640 £582
UK median daily rate £600 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +12.94% +1.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile - £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London +94 6 £675 +28.57%
North of England +24 1 £375 -35.51%
North West +19 1 £375 -42.31%
South East - 1 - - 2
Senior DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Replication
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) Sybase
3 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (30.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (10.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (30.00%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Resource Management
2 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Perl
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Sybase