Database Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 - 475
Rank change year-on-year - - +151
Contract jobs requiring a Database Manager 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £473 - £292
25th Percentile £488 - £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £313
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.18%
75th Percentile £563 - £331
90th Percentile £578 - £335
UK median daily rate £575 £620 £325
% change year-on-year -7.26% +90.77% -38.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Database Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Database Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Manager.

Database Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Manager Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Database Manager 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Database Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management

Database Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 Database Manager jobs Nationwide