DBA Contracts in the North of England

Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the North of England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 170 139
Rank change year-on-year +36 -31 +22
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 50 39 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.04% 0.71% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.75% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 79
10th Percentile £403 £419 £323
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +19.40%
75th Percentile £534 £575 £581
90th Percentile £594 £610 £641
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.87% +14.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £51.50 £34.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +48.01% -30.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,470 5,202 6,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 95.33% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,644 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 163 271
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.05 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.02 £17.60 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire +28 28 £450 -17.43% 6
North West +4 16 £534 +18.67% 3
North East +14 6 £475 -9.52% 5
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 North of England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 17 (34.00%) SQL
1 17 (34.00%) MongoDB
2 15 (30.00%) Ingres
3 14 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 14 (28.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 12 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (24.00%) Oracle
4 12 (24.00%) Linux
5 11 (22.00%) DevOps
6 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
7 9 (18.00%) Finance
7 9 (18.00%) Database Security
8 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (16.00%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (16.00%) Azure
9 7 (14.00%) Agile
9 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (12.00%) Serverless
10 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
10 6 (12.00%) Kafka
10 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.00%) GCP
10 6 (12.00%) Fraud Detection
10 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
10 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (12.00%) Programme Management
10 6 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
10 6 (12.00%) Marketing
10 6 (12.00%) JSON

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) GCP
2 6 (12.00%) Serverless
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) MongoDB
2 15 (30.00%) Ingres
3 8 (16.00%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (12.00%) RDBMS
4 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.00%) Informix
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
5 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.00%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.00%) DB2
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Electronics
4 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
4 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) JSON
1 6 (12.00%) Kafka
1 6 (12.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Unix
3 5 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.00%) HPUX
5 2 (4.00%) Solaris
6 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 14 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 12 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (22.00%) DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) Database Security
5 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.00%) Agile
7 6 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (12.00%) Fraud Detection
7 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.00%) Programme Management
8 4 (8.00%) High Availability
8 4 (8.00%) Migration
8 4 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
9 3 (6.00%) Database Optimisation
9 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.00%) Server Patching
10 2 (4.00%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) CQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.00%) Degree
1 2 (4.00%) MCSE
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.00%) SAP
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) Actian
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Sun
5 1 (2.00%) Brio
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) F5
5 1 (2.00%) Google