SQL DBA Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 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 337 385 416
Rank change year-on-year +48 +31 -41
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 50 52 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 42 72
10th Percentile £389 £381 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.36% +11.25%
75th Percentile £588 £539 £540
90th Percentile £625 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

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%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL 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 SQL 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
Scotland - 15 £483 - 4
Midlands +37 13 £400 - 1
South East +20 12 £600 +20.00% 10
North of England +17 10 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands +26 9 £390 -33.62% 1
North West +17 5 £425 -12.19% 1
East Midlands +13 4 £400 -
North East - 4 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
SQL DBA
UK

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

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

1 41 (82.00%) SQL
2 39 (78.00%) SQL Server
3 23 (46.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
4 22 (44.00%) High Availability
5 14 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (24.00%) DV Cleared
8 11 (22.00%) Windows
8 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
9 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
10 9 (18.00%) Problem Management
10 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
11 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
11 8 (16.00%) T-SQL
12 7 (14.00%) Clustering
12 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (14.00%) Azure
13 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (12.00%) Degree
13 6 (12.00%) Database Security
13 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
14 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
14 5 (10.00%) Server Patching
14 5 (10.00%) Migration
14 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (10.00%) JIRA
14 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (10.00%) Atlassian

SQL 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (78.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (6.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.00%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Clustering
2 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Replication
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (44.00%) High Availability
3 14 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (18.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (12.00%) Database Security
6 5 (10.00%) Database Tuning
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Server Patching
7 4 (8.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) Security Hardening
7 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
8 3 (6.00%) Agile
8 3 (6.00%) Capacity Management
8 3 (6.00%) ITIL
8 3 (6.00%) Security Auditing
8 3 (6.00%) Service Management
8 3 (6.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 41 (82.00%) SQL
2 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (12.00%) Degree
6 4 (8.00%) MCITP
6 4 (8.00%) MCTS
7 3 (6.00%) MCSE
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat