DBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £500 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 207 312 377
Rank change year-on-year +105 +65 -71
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 144 167 255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.69% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 115 177
10th Percentile £363 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile £72.50 £79.89 £28.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £84.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +124.24% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.30 £48.13
90th Percentile - - £53.75
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £37.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year +37.71% -19.14% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DBA.

DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DBA over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DBA.

DBA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DBA in the job title.

1 74 (51.39%) SQL
2 56 (38.89%) Oracle
3 45 (31.25%) SQL Server
4 41 (28.47%) Performance Tuning
5 38 (26.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (26.39%) High Availability
5 38 (26.39%) Azure
6 34 (23.61%) Oracle Database
6 34 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
8 31 (21.53%) Migration
9 30 (20.83%) Public Sector
10 29 (20.14%) AWS
11 26 (18.06%) Windows
11 26 (18.06%) Linux
11 26 (18.06%) DevOps
11 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.36%) MongoDB
12 25 (17.36%) Finance
13 24 (16.67%) Database Security
14 21 (14.58%) Relational Database
14 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
15 20 (13.89%) Replication
16 17 (11.81%) MySQL
16 17 (11.81%) Microsoft
17 16 (11.11%) RDBMS
17 16 (11.11%) Java
17 16 (11.11%) Data Guard
18 15 (10.42%) Database Tuning
18 15 (10.42%) Oracle Reports

DBA 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 6 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Elite 3E
1 4 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.39%) Azure
2 29 (20.14%) AWS
3 10 (6.94%) Serverless
4 8 (5.56%) GitHub
5 7 (4.86%) GCP
6 5 (3.47%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.47%) OCI
7 4 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.69%) IaaS
10 1 (0.69%) PaaS
10 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) Firewall
1 3 (2.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.08%) VPN
2 2 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 34 (23.61%) Oracle Database
2 34 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (17.36%) MongoDB
4 21 (14.58%) Relational Database
5 17 (11.81%) MySQL
6 16 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 15 (10.42%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (9.03%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
9 8 (5.56%) Ingres
10 6 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (4.17%) PowerCenter
11 5 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.78%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) JIRA
2 7 (4.86%) Maven
3 2 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.69%) Git
4 1 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
General
1 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.36%) Finance
4 15 (10.42%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.94%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.25%) Electronics
7 9 (6.25%) Marketing
8 6 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Front Office
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) Hibernate
1 11 (7.64%) JPA
2 10 (6.94%) JSON
2 10 (6.94%) Kafka
2 10 (6.94%) XML
3 7 (4.86%) Middleware
4 3 (2.08%) Spring
4 3 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.39%) .NET
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Replication
2 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.17%) Clustering
5 6 (4.17%) NHS
6 4 (2.78%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.08%) Derivative
7 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.69%) EPoS
9 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.06%) Linux
1 26 (18.06%) Windows
2 10 (6.94%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.56%) AIX
4 6 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.47%) Performance Tuning
2 38 (26.39%) Disaster Recovery
2 38 (26.39%) High Availability
3 31 (21.53%) Migration
4 26 (18.06%) DevOps
4 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (16.67%) Database Security
6 15 (10.42%) Database Tuning
7 14 (9.72%) Mentoring
8 13 (9.03%) Agile
9 12 (8.33%) Task Automation
10 11 (7.64%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (7.64%) ETL
10 11 (7.64%) Problem Management
11 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
12 9 (6.25%) Programme Management
12 9 (6.25%) Software Engineering
13 8 (5.56%) E-business
13 8 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.39%) SQL
2 16 (11.11%) Java
3 15 (10.42%) Python
4 14 (9.72%) PowerShell
4 14 (9.72%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.25%) Bash
6 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.47%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.78%) Perl
10 2 (1.39%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.39%) VBA
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) C#
11 1 (0.69%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.47%) Degree
5 4 (2.78%) MCSE
6 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.08%) MCITP
6 3 (2.08%) MCTS
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) OCP
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) IFRS
3 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 13 (9.03%) Ansible
3 9 (6.25%) Terraform
4 7 (4.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (2.08%) Grafana
6 3 (2.08%) Nagios
6 3 (2.08%) Puppet
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.69%) Graylog
8 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (38.89%) Oracle
2 17 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.33%) SAP
4 6 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.17%) Informatica
5 4 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.78%) Sybase
6 3 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (2.08%) IBM
7 2 (1.39%) Actian
8 1 (0.69%) Databricks
8 1 (0.69%) Intapp
8 1 (0.69%) RedGate
8 1 (0.69%) Splunk