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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 658 786
Rank change year-on-year +96 +128 -130
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 24 35 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.060% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.064% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 37
10th Percentile £362 £413 £363
25th Percentile £400 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £590 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +18.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £563
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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
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% +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 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +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 8 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 8 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 +79 15 £425 -
England +75 14 £400 -32.77% 5
Work from Home +116 10 £400 -17.95% 4
Scotland - 9 £600 -
London +86 8 £488 -22.31% 5
Midlands +33 4 £400 -11.11%
East Midlands +21 3 £400 -20.00%
South East +10 2 £513 +26.15%
West Midlands +26 1 £390 -2.50%

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (58.33%) SQL
3 13 (54.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 11 (45.83%) High Availability
5 11 (45.83%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (37.50%) Azure
6 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
8 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
8 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
9 6 (25.00%) MCTS
9 6 (25.00%) MCITP
9 6 (25.00%) Degree
9 6 (25.00%) Migration
9 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
10 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (20.83%) JIRA
10 5 (20.83%) Problem Management
10 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
10 5 (20.83%) Confluence
10 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
11 4 (16.67%) Capacity Management
11 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (16.67%) Agile
11 4 (16.67%) Clustering
11 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (16.67%) 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) OLAP
6 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Clustering
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
1 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (45.83%) High Availability
2 11 (45.83%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Problem Management
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 4 (16.67%) Database Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (8.33%) ITIL
7 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
8 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
8 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 6 (25.00%) MCITP
3 6 (25.00%) MCTS
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) RedGate