SQL DBA Contracts in England

SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 526 608
Rank change year-on-year +61 +82 -52
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 72 121 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 98 122
10th Percentile £313 £396 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% +19.12%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £622
90th Percentile £625 £666 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - £37.19 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +54 31 £500 -9.09% 10
Midlands +35 13 £400 - 3
South East +17 13 £600 +20.00% 12
North of England +23 10 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +32 9 £390 -33.62% 2
North West +15 5 £425 -12.19% 1
East Midlands +11 4 £400 - 1
North East - 4 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 69 (95.83%) SQL
2 48 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 32 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
4 23 (31.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (30.56%) High Availability
6 21 (29.17%) Microsoft
7 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
8 19 (26.39%) DV Cleared
9 15 (20.83%) Windows
9 15 (20.83%) Banking
10 14 (19.44%) Oracle
10 14 (19.44%) Azure
11 13 (18.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (16.67%) Database Tuning
12 12 (16.67%) Migration
12 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
13 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
13 11 (15.28%) Clustering
13 11 (15.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (13.89%) AWS
14 10 (13.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (12.50%) Oracle Database
15 9 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (12.50%) Java
15 9 (12.50%) Finance
16 8 (11.11%) Database Security
16 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
17 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software

SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) Azure
2 10 (13.89%) AWS
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (4.17%) PaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.78%) IaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.39%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (15.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (13.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 9 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.50%) Oracle Database
6 6 (8.33%) MySQL
7 5 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (4.17%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.78%) Power BI
10 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.39%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Maven
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 15 (20.83%) Banking
2 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Finance
4 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Electronics
6 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.94%) Marketing
6 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Local Government
8 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Hibernate
1 7 (9.72%) JPA
2 2 (2.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Clustering
2 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.72%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.94%) NHS
3 5 (6.94%) Replication
4 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Windows
2 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
2 23 (31.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 22 (30.56%) High Availability
4 12 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 12 (16.67%) Migration
5 8 (11.11%) Database Security
5 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.72%) Information Security
6 7 (9.72%) SDLC
6 7 (9.72%) Software Architecture
6 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.33%) Database Migration
7 6 (8.33%) ITIL
7 6 (8.33%) Storage Management
8 5 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (6.94%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (6.94%) Programme Management
8 5 (6.94%) Security Hardening
8 5 (6.94%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 69 (95.83%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) Java
3 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.56%) Python
6 3 (4.17%) Bash
7 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.78%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.78%) VBA
8 1 (1.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.39%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 7 (9.72%) MCITP
4 7 (9.72%) MCTS
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.17%) MCSE
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.39%) QA
1 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.44%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) SAP
4 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.39%) RedGate