Database Specialist Contracts

Database Specialist
UK

The median Database Specialist daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 693 841
Rank change year-on-year +130 +148 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Database Specialist 21 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.008% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile £411 £576 £400
25th Percentile £439 £584 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £601 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +23.02% +15.00%
75th Percentile £597 £693 £593
90th Percentile £635 £832 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £544

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Database Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Database Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Specialist in the UK

Database Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Specialist.

Daily rate trend for Database Specialist in the UK

Database Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Specialist over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Specialist in the UK

Database Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Specialist.

Hourly rate trend for Database Specialist in the UK

Database Specialist
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +103 21 £575 -4.37% 1
UK excluding London - 15 £575 - 1
South East - 11 £575 -
London +82 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £423 - 1
North of England - 4 £423 - 1
Work from Home +117 2 - - 1

Database Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Database Specialist 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 featuring Database Specialist in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (61.90%) Bash
3 13 (61.90%) Task Automation
4 12 (57.14%) Replication
5 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
5 11 (52.38%) Capacity Management
5 11 (52.38%) Oracle
5 11 (52.38%) Linux
6 10 (47.62%) Migration
6 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (47.62%) Data Migration
6 10 (47.62%) Terraform
7 8 (38.10%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (38.10%) Ansible
7 8 (38.10%) SolarWinds
7 8 (38.10%) Clustering
7 8 (38.10%) Red Hat
8 7 (33.33%) Python
8 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (33.33%) VMware
8 7 (33.33%) GitHub
8 7 (33.33%) High Availability
8 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
8 7 (33.33%) vSphere
8 7 (33.33%) Database Security
8 7 (33.33%) GitLab
9 6 (28.57%) Storage Management

Database Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) DB2
3 1 (4.76%) IDMS
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Replication
2 8 (38.10%) Clustering
2 8 (38.10%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (61.90%) Task Automation
4 11 (52.38%) Capacity Management
5 10 (47.62%) Data Migration
5 10 (47.62%) Migration
6 7 (33.33%) Database Security
6 7 (33.33%) High Availability
7 6 (28.57%) Storage Management
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
10 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (9.52%) Matrix Organization
10 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (9.52%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle
2 8 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 8 (38.10%) SolarWinds
3 7 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Sybase