DBA Contracts in Exeter

Database Administrator
Devon > Exeter

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Exeter is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 3.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
Devon median daily rate £520 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 54 117 90
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 98.32% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 86 78
10th Percentile £240 £149 £296
25th Percentile £308 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £523 £597 £670
90th Percentile £558 £660 £725
Devon median daily rate £425 £450 £433
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.05% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.76 -
25th Percentile £22.76 £13.86 -
Median hourly rate £22.84 £26.40 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +46.64% -5.26%
75th Percentile £22.92 £30.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median hourly rate £56.25 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% +203.62%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Exeter

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Exeter

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2025, 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 Exeter region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Database Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Database Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft