Database Mirroring Contract Job Trends

Database Mirroring (DB Mirroring)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Database Mirroring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 517 587
Rank change year-on-year -98 +70 +145
Contract jobs citing Database Mirroring 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.014% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.015% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £521 £397
25th Percentile £506 £534 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +30.81% -25.22%
75th Percentile £519 £584 £458
90th Percentile - £594 £471
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £430
% change year-on-year -2.38% +22.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Database Mirroring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,825 26,281 38,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.77% 90.55% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,952 17,099 24,858
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 950 2,347
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.49 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.91
90th Percentile £76.40 £77.22 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -3.60% +0.44% -13.10%

Database Mirroring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Mirroring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Database Mirroring job vacancy trend in the UK

Database Mirroring
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Mirroring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Mirroring

Database Mirroring
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Mirroring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Database Mirroring

Database Mirroring
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Mirroring within the UK over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
UK excluding London -100 1 £513 -2.38% 1
England -113 1 £513 -8.89% 1
North of England - 1 £513 - 1
North West - 1 £513 - 1

Database Mirroring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy