SQL DBA Contracts in England

SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 521 621
Rank change year-on-year +51 +100 -48
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 80 115 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 113
10th Percentile £375 £390 £328
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £613
90th Percentile - £666 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +18.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - £37.19 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £34.80 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -36.74% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
London +61 34 £544 -1.14% 3
South East +23 18 £600 +41.18% 3
Midlands +25 15 £400 -20.00% 5
North of England +11 10 £450 -10.00% 8
West Midlands +25 9 £390 -49.68% 4
North West +13 6 £425 -5.56% 1
East Midlands +8 6 £400 -11.11% 1
North East - 4 £475 - 5
East of England -8 1 £375 -18.92% 1
SQL DBA
UK

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 England region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 76 (95.00%) SQL
2 54 (67.50%) SQL Server
3 38 (47.50%) Performance Tuning
4 28 (35.00%) Security Cleared
5 26 (32.50%) DV Cleared
6 24 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
8 20 (25.00%) High Availability
9 16 (20.00%) Azure
10 14 (17.50%) Banking
10 14 (17.50%) Oracle
10 14 (17.50%) Windows
10 14 (17.50%) Database Tuning
11 12 (15.00%) Security Hardening
11 12 (15.00%) Migration
11 12 (15.00%) Clustering
12 11 (13.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (13.75%) AWS
12 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
13 10 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (11.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (11.25%) Oracle Database
15 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
15 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
15 8 (10.00%) Java
16 7 (8.75%) MySQL
16 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
16 7 (8.75%) Information Security
16 7 (8.75%) Hibernate

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (3.75%) PaaS
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.50%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (67.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (11.25%) Oracle Database
4 9 (11.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (8.75%) MySQL
6 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.75%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.50%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (2.50%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Maven
2 6 (7.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 14 (17.50%) Banking
2 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Electronics
5 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Legal
5 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.50%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.25%) Advertising
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Local Government
6 1 (1.25%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Hibernate
1 7 (8.75%) JPA
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Clustering
2 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Replication
4 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (25.00%) High Availability
4 14 (17.50%) Database Tuning
5 12 (15.00%) Migration
5 12 (15.00%) Security Hardening
6 7 (8.75%) Database Security
6 7 (8.75%) Information Security
6 7 (8.75%) SDLC
6 7 (8.75%) Software Architecture
6 7 (8.75%) Software Engineering
7 6 (7.50%) Database Migration
7 6 (7.50%) ETL
7 6 (7.50%) ITIL
7 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.50%) Server Patching
8 5 (6.25%) Data Integration
8 5 (6.25%) Data Modelling
9 4 (5.00%) Capacity Management
9 4 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (95.00%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) Java
2 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.50%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.75%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) Python
5 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) DV Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) MCITP
4 7 (8.75%) MCTS
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.75%) MCSE
5 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.25%) QA
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.50%) Oracle
3 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.25%) RedGate