DBA Contracts in the South East

Database Administrator
England > South East

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the South East is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 197 221
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -25
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 15 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.46% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 35
10th Percentile £401 £310 £381
25th Percentile £413 £381 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year - -2.16% -7.52%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £550
90th Percentile £571 £575 £607
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,138 5,513 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.48% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,840 5,034
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.59 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.87 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the South East

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +15 11 £500 +25.00% 2
Berkshire -6 8 £513 +15.82% 1
Buckinghamshire +31 3 £425 +17.24% 1
West Sussex - 2 £450 - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Kent - 1 £450 - 1
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 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 South East region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle
3 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (33.33%) MySQL
4 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (26.67%) Linux
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (20.00%) QA
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) Java
6 3 (20.00%) Windows
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (20.00%) Terraform
6 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
7 2 (13.33%) Grafana
7 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (13.33%) DB2
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (6.67%) OLAP
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (6.67%) Power BI
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (13.33%) Change Control
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (6.67%) Database Security
6 1 (6.67%) ETL
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Graylog
2 2 (13.33%) Nagios
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds