SQL Database Administrator
UK

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 555 658
Rank change year-on-year +74 +103 -63
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 95 133 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 101 140
10th Percentile £360 £400 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £591
90th Percentile £625 £666 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -5.00% +13.64% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - £37.19 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £34.80 -

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 39,578 53,370 83,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,754 37,256 58,766
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,484 1,999
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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 +46 73 £475 -5.00% 37
UK excluding London +53 50 £475 -5.00% 29
Work from Home +105 47 £475 -5.00% 18
London +59 30 £500 -9.09% 12
Midlands +39 15 £400 -11.11% 6
South East +16 14 £600 +20.00% 14
Scotland - 11 £483 - 1
North of England +27 10 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands +17 9 £390 -33.62% 5
East Midlands +15 6 £400 -11.11% 1
North West +20 5 £425 -5.56% 1
North East - 4 £475 - 4
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 88 (92.63%) SQL
2 67 (70.53%) SQL Server
3 36 (37.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (37.89%) Performance Tuning
4 35 (36.84%) High Availability
5 27 (28.42%) Security Cleared
6 24 (25.26%) Microsoft
7 22 (23.16%) Windows
7 22 (23.16%) Azure
8 20 (21.05%) DV Cleared
9 19 (20.00%) Migration
9 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 17 (17.89%) Banking
10 17 (17.89%) Oracle
11 15 (15.79%) Clustering
12 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (14.74%) PowerShell
13 13 (13.68%) Database Tuning
13 13 (13.68%) Windows Server
14 12 (12.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (11.58%) Finance
15 11 (11.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
16 10 (10.53%) Problem Management
16 10 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (10.53%) AWS
16 10 (10.53%) Replication
16 10 (10.53%) ETL
17 9 (9.47%) MySQL

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.16%) Azure
2 10 (10.53%) AWS
3 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (3.16%) PaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.11%) IaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.05%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (70.53%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (11.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (10.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 9 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (9.47%) MySQL
5 9 (9.47%) Oracle Database
5 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.16%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.11%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.11%) Power BI
9 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.05%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Maven
2 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (3.16%) JIRA
4 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.05%) Git
5 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Banking
3 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Electronics
6 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.21%) Marketing
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Local Government
8 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) Hibernate
1 7 (7.37%) JPA
2 3 (3.16%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Clustering
2 10 (10.53%) Replication
3 7 (7.37%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) NHS
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Windows
2 13 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Disaster Recovery
1 36 (37.89%) Performance Tuning
2 35 (36.84%) High Availability
3 19 (20.00%) Migration
4 13 (13.68%) Database Tuning
5 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.53%) ETL
6 10 (10.53%) Problem Management
7 9 (9.47%) Database Security
7 9 (9.47%) ITIL
8 8 (8.42%) Server Patching
9 7 (7.37%) Information Security
9 7 (7.37%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (7.37%) SDLC
9 7 (7.37%) Security Hardening
9 7 (7.37%) Service Management
9 7 (7.37%) Software Architecture
9 7 (7.37%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.37%) Task Automation
10 6 (6.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 88 (92.63%) SQL
2 14 (14.74%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.47%) Java
3 9 (9.47%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.21%) Python
5 3 (3.16%) Bash
6 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.05%) C#
7 1 (1.05%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.47%) Degree
5 7 (7.37%) MCITP
5 7 (7.37%) MCTS
5 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.32%) MCSE
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.05%) QA
1 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (3.16%) Terraform
2 2 (2.11%) Ansible
2 2 (2.11%) Puppet
3 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 3 (3.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.05%) RedGate