DBA Contracts in the North West

Database Administrator
England > North West

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the North West is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 136 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -10
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 23 22 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.83% 0.68% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.72% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 45
10th Percentile £373 £416 £340
25th Percentile £413 £427 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% - +48.15%
75th Percentile - £588 £588
90th Percentile £540 £635 £663
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.13% -12.01% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,627 3,049 3,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.63% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 2,194 2,839
10th Percentile £283 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 140 178
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.85% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £65.08 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
Manchester +23 17 £534 +6.80% 1
Cheshire +4 4 £425 -11.69%
Lancashire +4 2 £375 - 2
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 19 (82.61%) Oracle
2 16 (69.57%) MongoDB
3 14 (60.87%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (60.87%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (60.87%) RDBMS
3 14 (60.87%) Database Security
3 14 (60.87%) Relational Database
4 13 (56.52%) DevOps
4 13 (56.52%) Kafka
4 13 (56.52%) Mentoring
4 13 (56.52%) Serverless
4 13 (56.52%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (56.52%) XML
4 13 (56.52%) JSON
4 13 (56.52%) Agile
4 13 (56.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (26.09%) SQL
6 3 (13.04%) Banking
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
7 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
7 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (8.70%) Azure
7 2 (8.70%) High Availability
7 2 (8.70%) Linux
7 2 (8.70%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (4.35%) Windows
8 1 (4.35%) MySQL
8 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.35%) DB2
8 1 (4.35%) zOS

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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Serverless
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) MongoDB
2 14 (60.87%) Oracle Reports
2 14 (60.87%) RDBMS
2 14 (60.87%) Relational Database
3 13 (56.52%) NoSQL
3 13 (56.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.35%) Data Hub
6 1 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
6 1 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (4.35%) OLTP
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Local Government
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) JSON
1 13 (56.52%) Kafka
1 13 (56.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Database Security
1 14 (60.87%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.70%) High Availability
4 1 (4.35%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.35%) Data Management
4 1 (4.35%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (4.35%) ETL
4 1 (4.35%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.35%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) F5