SQL DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 396 412
Rank change year-on-year +53 +16 -38
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 53 51 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.23% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 42 77
10th Percentile £390 £376 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £539 £544
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland - 18 £533 - 4
Midlands +41 13 £400 - 1
South East +25 11 £600 +20.00% 7
North of England +26 10 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +29 9 £390 -33.62% 1
North West +14 5 £425 -13.62%
East Midlands +23 4 £400 -
North East - 4 £475 - 2
Wales +19 1 £575 +35.29%
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 1
SQL DBA
UK

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, SQL 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 UK excluding London region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 43 (81.13%) SQL
2 42 (79.25%) SQL Server
3 23 (43.40%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
4 22 (41.51%) High Availability
5 13 (24.53%) PowerShell
5 13 (24.53%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (22.64%) Windows
6 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
7 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
7 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
8 9 (16.98%) Azure
8 9 (16.98%) Problem Management
8 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
9 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
9 8 (15.09%) T-SQL
10 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (13.21%) Clustering
10 7 (13.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
11 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.32%) Database Security
11 6 (11.32%) Agile
11 6 (11.32%) Degree
11 6 (11.32%) Linux
12 5 (9.43%) Migration
12 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (9.43%) JIRA
12 5 (9.43%) Atlassian
12 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) Azure
2 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.89%) AWS
3 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (79.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.66%) MariaDB
5 2 (3.77%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (3.77%) Power BI
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) OLAP
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Clustering
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.66%) Replication
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Windows
2 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (41.51%) High Availability
3 13 (24.53%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (16.98%) Problem Management
5 6 (11.32%) Agile
5 6 (11.32%) Database Security
5 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.43%) Database Tuning
6 5 (9.43%) Migration
6 5 (9.43%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (9.43%) Server Patching
7 4 (7.55%) Data Modelling
7 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
8 3 (5.66%) Capacity Management
8 3 (5.66%) DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) ITIL
8 3 (5.66%) Security Auditing
8 3 (5.66%) Security Hardening
8 3 (5.66%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (81.13%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) PowerShell
3 8 (15.09%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) DV Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 4 (7.55%) MCITP
5 4 (7.55%) MCTS
6 3 (5.66%) MCSE
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) QA
1 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Nagios
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat