DBA Contracts in the North West

Database Administrator
England > North West

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the North West is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 116 134
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -21
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 18 21 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.81% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 15
10th Percentile £338 £370 £406
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.80% -
75th Percentile £447 - £575
90th Percentile £448 £540 £630
England median daily rate £450 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -11.98% +2.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £51.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +23.78% +48.01% -18.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North West.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the North West

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +17 15 £445 -16.67% 3
Cheshire -2 2 £298 -30.00% 2
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 North West region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) NoSQL
2 12 (66.67%) Database Security
2 12 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 12 (66.67%) Oracle
2 12 (66.67%) XML
2 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 12 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (66.67%) JSON
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (55.56%) Kafka
3 10 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 10 (55.56%) DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) Serverless
4 6 (33.33%) MySQL
5 5 (27.78%) VMware
5 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (22.22%) Docker
6 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
6 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (22.22%) Banking
7 3 (16.67%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (88.89%) NoSQL
2 12 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 12 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 10 (55.56%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (33.33%) MySQL
5 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
6 2 (11.11%) GIS
6 2 (11.11%) MSDE
6 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.56%) DTS
7 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) JSON
1 12 (66.67%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Database Security
1 12 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.56%) BCP
5 1 (5.56%) Compliance Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Integration
5 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (5.56%) ETL
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
1 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Perfmon
2 1 (5.56%) SCOM
2 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft