DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 282 271
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 132 158 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.69% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.73% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 121 188
10th Percentile £375 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £540
90th Percentile £625 £600 £615
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.25% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £32.45 £13.40 -
25th Percentile £39.13 £14.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £18.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.11% -64.00% -
75th Percentile £65.13 £28.10 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.55 £33.55 -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £34.80 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.01% -24.77% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,744 21,756 29,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,430 15,189 20,397
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,113 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +35 55 £490 -2.00% 16
Yorkshire +37 29 £450 -17.43% 5
Scotland +57 23 £475 -5.00% 6
South East +8 21 £525 +13.51% 13
North West +13 20 £534 +11.37% 6
Midlands +32 17 £400 - 10
Wales +30 11 £588 +9.30% 1
West Midlands +22 11 £395 +21.54% 8
East Midlands +14 6 £400 - 2
North East +12 6 £475 -9.52% 5
South West -7 3 £593 +18.50% 4
East of England -9 2 £450 +5.88% 4
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 59 (44.70%) SQL
2 48 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 41 (31.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (28.79%) Oracle
5 32 (24.24%) Linux
5 32 (24.24%) High Availability
5 32 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
6 28 (21.21%) Database Security
7 27 (20.45%) MongoDB
8 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
8 25 (18.94%) Migration
8 25 (18.94%) DevOps
9 23 (17.42%) Azure
10 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 21 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (15.91%) Public Sector
12 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
12 20 (15.15%) Oracle Database
12 20 (15.15%) Windows
13 19 (14.39%) Relational Database
14 17 (12.88%) RDBMS
14 17 (12.88%) Finance
15 16 (12.12%) Agile
15 16 (12.12%) Mentoring
16 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (11.36%) Knowledge Transfer
16 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
16 15 (11.36%) Ingres
17 14 (10.61%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (10.61%) Data Guard

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.79%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.42%) Azure
2 11 (8.33%) AWS
2 11 (8.33%) Serverless
3 9 (6.82%) GCP
4 6 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.27%) GitHub
8 2 (1.52%) OCI
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Firewall
1 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 6 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 27 (20.45%) MongoDB
3 21 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (15.15%) Oracle Database
5 19 (14.39%) Relational Database
6 17 (12.88%) RDBMS
7 15 (11.36%) Ingres
8 14 (10.61%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (8.33%) MySQL
9 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
10 9 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (3.03%) Metadata
13 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (3.03%) Oracle8/8i Database
13 4 (3.03%) Power BI
14 3 (2.27%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (15.91%) Public Sector
2 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.88%) Finance
4 10 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.30%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.55%) Electronics
6 6 (4.55%) Marketing
7 5 (3.79%) Banking
8 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) JSON
1 11 (8.33%) Kafka
1 11 (8.33%) XML
2 5 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (0.76%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Clustering
1 8 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.55%) Replication
3 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Blog
6 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.76%) NHS
6 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.24%) Linux
2 20 (15.15%) Windows
3 13 (9.85%) Unix
4 9 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.79%) AIX
6 2 (1.52%) HPUX
6 2 (1.52%) Solaris
7 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.06%) Disaster Recovery
2 32 (24.24%) High Availability
2 32 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
3 28 (21.21%) Database Security
4 25 (18.94%) DevOps
4 25 (18.94%) Migration
5 16 (12.12%) Agile
5 16 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 15 (11.36%) Knowledge Transfer
6 15 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (6.82%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (6.82%) Problem Management
9 8 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (6.06%) Database Tuning
10 7 (5.30%) Change Control
10 7 (5.30%) Data Migration
10 7 (5.30%) Database Migration
10 7 (5.30%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (5.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.70%) SQL
2 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.06%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.30%) Shell Script
5 6 (4.55%) Bash
5 6 (4.55%) Python
6 3 (2.27%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) CQL
7 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.85%) DV Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.82%) Degree
4 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.79%) MCITP
5 5 (3.79%) MCTS
6 3 (2.27%) MCSE
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) OCP
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.76%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.61%) Data Guard
2 8 (6.06%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (5.30%) Terraform
4 6 (4.55%) Ansible
4 6 (4.55%) Grafana
4 6 (4.55%) Nagios
4 6 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 5 (3.79%) Graylog
5 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (28.79%) Oracle
2 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.30%) SAP
4 5 (3.79%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.79%) Splunk
5 3 (2.27%) Google
5 3 (2.27%) IBM
5 3 (2.27%) Informatica
6 2 (1.52%) Actian
6 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.52%) Sun
7 1 (0.76%) Brio
7 1 (0.76%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) EMC
7 1 (0.76%) F5
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds