Senior SQL DBA Contracts

Senior SQL Database Administrator
UK

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 593 687
Rank change year-on-year +50 +94 +182
Contract jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.007% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.007% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £363 - £538
90th Percentile £378 - £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,425 40,103 54,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.99% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,757 25,815 37,579
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.03%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,334 2,768 1,584
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.62 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.58
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.07% +96.06%

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL DBA in the UK

Senior SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior SQL DBA in the UK

Senior SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior SQL DBA in the UK

Senior SQL DBA
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 8 July 2025. 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 +52 2 £350 - 1
UK excluding London +47 1 £375 - 1
North of England - 1 £375 -
North West - 1 £375 -

Senior SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 July 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior SQL DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
2 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) RedGate
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Database Security
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure

Senior SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) RedGate