Senior DBA Contracts

Senior Database Administrator
UK

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 678 835
Rank change year-on-year +122 +157 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 34 25 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.042% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.045% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 19
10th Percentile £363 £450 £428
25th Percentile £494 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +1.19% +10.24%
75th Percentile £668 £598 £550
90th Percentile £688 £633 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £591 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% +12.52% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile - £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £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 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Work from Home +143 27 £550 -4.35%
UK excluding London +62 16 £575 -2.67% 5
Scotland +49 14 £588 -
England +115 10 £525 - 4
London +87 6 £675 +28.57%
North of England +27 1 £375 -35.51%
North West +17 1 £375 -42.31%
South East - 1 - - 2

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior DBA in the job title.

1 17 (50.00%) High Availability
2 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
3 14 (41.18%) Migration
4 13 (38.24%) SQL
4 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
5 12 (35.29%) Replication
5 12 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
7 10 (29.41%) Oracle
7 10 (29.41%) Windows
7 10 (29.41%) Oracle Database
8 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
8 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
8 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
8 9 (26.47%) ETL
8 9 (26.47%) Azure
9 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
9 8 (23.53%) T-SQL
10 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (17.65%) Linux
11 6 (17.65%) Atlassian
11 6 (17.65%) Confluence
11 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
11 6 (17.65%) JIRA
11 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
12 5 (14.71%) Data Guard
12 5 (14.71%) AWS
13 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
13 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
13 4 (11.76%) Resource Management

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Elite 3E
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 10 (29.41%) Oracle Database
3 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (8.82%) Oracle Discoverer
5 3 (8.82%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Replication
2 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) High Availability
2 14 (41.18%) Migration
3 12 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (26.47%) ETL
5 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
6 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.76%) Resource Management
7 3 (8.82%) Database Tuning
7 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
8 2 (5.88%) Data Analysis
8 2 (5.88%) Prototyping
9 1 (2.94%) Analytics
9 1 (2.94%) Capacity Management
9 1 (2.94%) Change Control
9 1 (2.94%) Incident Management
9 1 (2.94%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 8 (23.53%) T-SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Perl
3 3 (8.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Data Guard
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Sybase
4 1 (2.94%) Intapp