SQL DBA Contracts in London

SQL Database Administrator
England > London

The median SQL Database Administrator daily rate in London is £544, 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 366 427 535
Rank change year-on-year +61 +108 -57
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 34 55 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 43 46
10th Percentile £398 £430 £419
25th Percentile £447 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +3.53% +18.06%
75th Percentile £588 £641 £625
90th Percentile £676 £666 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +20.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region 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
West London - 2 £606 -
Central London +32 1 £550 -4.35%
SQL DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 33 (97.06%) SQL
2 21 (61.76%) SQL Server
3 15 (44.12%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (35.29%) Azure
5 11 (32.35%) Database Tuning
5 11 (32.35%) Oracle
6 10 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 10 (29.41%) AWS
7 9 (26.47%) Oracle Database
8 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
8 8 (23.53%) Banking
8 8 (23.53%) Migration
8 8 (23.53%) Java
9 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
9 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
9 7 (20.59%) Information Security
9 7 (20.59%) Maven
9 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
9 7 (20.59%) JPA
9 7 (20.59%) Software Architecture
9 7 (20.59%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (20.59%) SDLC
10 6 (17.65%) High Availability
10 6 (17.65%) MySQL
11 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (61.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle Database
3 6 (17.65%) MySQL
4 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (14.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.94%) Metadata
8 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Maven
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 8 (23.53%) Banking
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Electronics
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Marketing
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
1 7 (20.59%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (32.35%) Database Tuning
3 10 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (23.53%) Migration
5 7 (20.59%) Information Security
5 7 (20.59%) SDLC
5 7 (20.59%) Software Architecture
5 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) High Availability
7 4 (11.76%) Database Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Database Security
8 3 (8.82%) Capacity Management
8 3 (8.82%) Data Integration
8 3 (8.82%) DevOps
8 3 (8.82%) ITIL
8 3 (8.82%) Storage Management
9 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (5.88%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (5.88%) ETL
9 2 (5.88%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (97.06%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) MCITP
4 3 (8.82%) MCTS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) RedGate