SC Cleared DBA Contracts

Security Check Clearance Database Administrator
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 688 789
Rank change year-on-year +109 +101 -125
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared DBA 12 30 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.051% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.054% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 50
10th Percentile £570 £409 £450
25th Percentile £600 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £531 £594
90th Percentile - £605 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile - - £46.88
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.88
90th Percentile - - £57.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

SC Cleared DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared DBA in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared DBA in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared DBA over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared DBA in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared DBA in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +90 10 £700 +40.00% 1
London +95 7 £700 +47.37% 1
Work from Home +118 3 £550 +11.68% 1
UK excluding London +58 3 £600 +14.29%
Scotland - 2 £575 -
South West +20 1 £625 +13.64%

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SC Cleared 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 featuring SC Cleared DBA in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (41.67%) Replication
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle Database
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (33.33%) Database Migration
4 4 (33.33%) OCI
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (16.67%) Database Security
6 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Azure
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) OCI
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Database
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL
4 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Blog
2 1 (8.33%) Cybercrime
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Database Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Database Security
3 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) SAP