DBA Contracts in Scotland

Database Administrator
UK > Scotland

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 150 146
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 -10
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 30 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.36% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 0.63% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 19
10th Percentile £324 £378 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +11.43% +13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £531 £494
90th Percentile £600 £584 £551
UK median daily rate £524 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.75% - +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,083 2,704 3,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 95.28% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,938 2,393
10th Percentile £200 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +7.06%
75th Percentile £583 £555 £550
90th Percentile £662 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 44 52
10th Percentile £12.33 £12.86 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.82 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Scotland

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Scotland

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Scotland

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Scotland

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow +23 23 £475 -5.00% 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 £575 -
Edinburgh +39 3 £475 +11.76% 4
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Scotland region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
3 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (36.67%) High Availability
5 10 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 9 (30.00%) T-SQL
6 9 (30.00%) Linux
6 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle
7 8 (26.67%) Migration
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (26.67%) Problem Management
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle Database
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (23.33%) Data Guard
8 7 (23.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (23.33%) Unix
9 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (20.00%) Agile
9 6 (20.00%) Confluence
9 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
9 6 (20.00%) JIRA
9 6 (20.00%) Database Security
9 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
10 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle Database
3 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (13.33%) Metadata
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) High Availability
2 10 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Problem Management
4 7 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Database Security
6 5 (16.67%) Database Tuning
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 4 (13.33%) Security Management
8 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
8 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis
8 2 (6.67%) Prototyping
8 2 (6.67%) Security Patching
9 1 (3.33%) Analytical Thinking
9 1 (3.33%) Database Optimisation
9 1 (3.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 9 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Data Guard
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft