Senior DBA Contracts in Manchester

Senior Database Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in Manchester is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £375 £375 £650
% change year-on-year - -42.31% +23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 823 1,351 1,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 95.61% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 940 1,287
10th Percentile £276 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% -1.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £546 £575 £588
90th Percentile £664 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £465 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 84 42
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.76
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £17.07
Median hourly rate £24.50 £27.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +0.93% +47.67%
75th Percentile £64.69 £63.13 £46.56
90th Percentile £78.63 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £29.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year -0.78% -3.41% +31.51%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in Manchester

Senior DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DBA in Manchester

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification