SQL DBA Contracts with Work from Home Options

SQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in Work from Home is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 410 535
Rank change year-on-year +120 +125 -117
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 56 61 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 46 64
10th Percentile £313 £369 £345
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £545
90th Percentile £585 £581 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

SQL DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL 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 SQL DBA.

SQL DBA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

SQL DBA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL 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 SQL DBA.

SQL DBA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 47 (83.93%) SQL
2 40 (71.43%) SQL Server
3 24 (42.86%) High Availability
4 23 (41.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (32.14%) Windows
6 15 (26.79%) Banking
6 15 (26.79%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (25.00%) Oracle
8 13 (23.21%) Migration
8 13 (23.21%) Azure
8 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
9 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 11 (19.64%) T-SQL
10 11 (19.64%) Problem Management
11 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
11 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
11 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
11 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
12 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (14.29%) Finance
13 8 (14.29%) Java
13 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
13 8 (14.29%) Database Tuning
13 8 (14.29%) MongoDB
13 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (12.50%) Software Architecture
14 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (12.50%) JPA
14 7 (12.50%) SDLC
14 7 (12.50%) Oracle Database

SQL 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 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 6 (10.71%) MySQL
6 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.79%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.79%) Power BI
9 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Maven
2 6 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 15 (26.79%) Banking
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.36%) Electronics
6 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 7 (12.50%) JPA
2 2 (3.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.71%) Replication
3 5 (8.93%) Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.93%) NHS
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.14%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) High Availability
2 23 (41.07%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (26.79%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (23.21%) Migration
5 11 (19.64%) Problem Management
6 8 (14.29%) Database Tuning
6 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.50%) Information Security
7 7 (12.50%) SDLC
7 7 (12.50%) Software Architecture
7 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.71%) ETL
9 5 (8.93%) ITIL
9 5 (8.93%) Service Management
10 4 (7.14%) Data Encryption
10 4 (7.14%) Data Modelling
10 4 (7.14%) Database Security
10 4 (7.14%) DevOps
10 4 (7.14%) Server Patching
10 4 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (83.93%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.64%) T-SQL
4 8 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) Python
5 2 (3.57%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.57%) VBA
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
6 1 (1.79%) C#
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.93%) Degree
5 4 (7.14%) MCSE
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.36%) MCITP
6 3 (5.36%) MCTS
7 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.79%) QA
1 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Ansible
1 3 (5.36%) Terraform
2 2 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Oracle
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.36%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) RedGate