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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 387 420
Rank change year-on-year +42 +33 -41
Contract jobs requiring a SQL DBA 49 55 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 69
10th Percentile £380 £381 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £600 £653
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +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 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

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 3 June 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 3 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
Midlands +31 15 £400 -11.11% 5
South East +17 15 £600 +23.71% 4
North of England +21 10 £450 -10.00% 8
West Midlands +22 9 £390 -33.62% 4
Scotland - 9 £475 - 1
East Midlands +11 6 £400 -11.11% 1
North West +7 6 £425 -5.56% 1
North East - 4 £475 - 5
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 44 (89.80%) SQL
2 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
3 21 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 20 (40.82%) Performance Tuning
5 18 (36.73%) High Availability
5 18 (36.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (32.65%) DV Cleared
7 11 (22.45%) Windows
7 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
8 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
8 9 (18.37%) Security Hardening
9 8 (16.33%) Windows Server
10 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 7 (14.29%) Azure
10 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (14.29%) Clustering
11 6 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
11 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
11 6 (12.24%) Degree
12 5 (10.20%) Banking
12 5 (10.20%) Migration
12 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
12 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
12 5 (10.20%) Server Patching
12 5 (10.20%) Performance Monitoring
12 5 (10.20%) Database Security
13 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
13 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills

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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (8.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (6.12%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.08%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
General
1 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Banking
2 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Windows
2 8 (16.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (36.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (36.73%) High Availability
3 9 (18.37%) Security Hardening
4 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
5 5 (10.20%) Database Security
5 5 (10.20%) Migration
5 5 (10.20%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.20%) Server Patching
6 4 (8.16%) Data Modelling
6 4 (8.16%) Database Tuning
6 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.16%) Task Automation
7 3 (6.12%) ETL
7 3 (6.12%) ITIL
7 3 (6.12%) Security Auditing
7 3 (6.12%) Service Management
7 3 (6.12%) Statistics
8 2 (4.08%) Database Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (89.80%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.16%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
4 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) MCITP
5 4 (8.16%) MCTS
6 3 (6.12%) MCSE
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat