SQL Server DBA Contracts

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK

The median SQL Server Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 681 800
Rank change year-on-year +107 +119 -143
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 26 35 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.059% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.063% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 38
10th Percentile £362 £413 £363
25th Percentile £400 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £590 £480
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +23.04% +8.98%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £559
90th Percentile - - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +3.75%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

SQL Server DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK

SQL Server DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server DBA over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server DBA in the UK

SQL Server DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server DBA in the UK

SQL Server DBA
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
UK excluding London +68 17 £425 -
England +104 14 £400 -32.77% 5
Work from Home +125 11 £400 -17.95% 4
Scotland - 11 £600 -
London +98 8 £488 -22.31% 5
Midlands +31 4 £400 -11.11%
East Midlands +21 3 £400 -20.00%
South East +22 2 £513 +26.15%
West Midlands +23 1 £390 -2.50%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, SQL Server 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 Server DBA in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (57.69%) SQL
3 14 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (46.15%) High Availability
6 11 (42.31%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (38.46%) Azure
8 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
8 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
9 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
9 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
10 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
11 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (23.08%) Migration
11 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
11 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
11 6 (23.08%) MCTS
11 6 (23.08%) MCITP
11 6 (23.08%) Degree
11 6 (23.08%) JIRA
11 6 (23.08%) Confluence
11 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
12 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
12 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (15.38%) Agile
12 4 (15.38%) Clustering
12 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server 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 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (7.69%) IaaS
3 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.69%) MySQL
6 1 (3.85%) OLAP
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Electronics
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.69%) Marketing
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (46.15%) High Availability
3 11 (42.31%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
5 4 (15.38%) Database Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.54%) Storage Management
7 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
7 2 (7.69%) Programme Management
8 1 (3.85%) Computer Science
8 1 (3.85%) Data Migration
8 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
8 1 (3.85%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 6 (23.08%) MCITP
3 6 (23.08%) MCTS
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) RedGate