Senior DBA Contracts

Senior Database Administrator
UK

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 664 817
Rank change year-on-year +121 +153 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 28 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.040% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.043% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 20
10th Percentile £363 £450 £429
25th Percentile £391 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £550
90th Percentile £689 £635 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £591 £525
% change year-on-year -19.59% +12.52% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Work from Home +124 24 £543 -5.65% 2
England +101 10 £525 +5.00% 4
UK excluding London +62 10 £475 -19.59% 4
Scotland +47 8 £538 -8.51%
London +93 6 £675 +35.00% 2
North of England +31 1 £375 -35.51%
North West +21 1 £375 -42.31%
South East - 1 - - 1

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) Migration
1 14 (50.00%) High Availability
2 12 (42.86%) Replication
3 10 (35.71%) Oracle
3 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 10 (35.71%) Oracle Database
4 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
4 9 (32.14%) Azure
4 9 (32.14%) ETL
4 9 (32.14%) Windows
4 9 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (17.86%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (17.86%) Data Guard
5 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (14.29%) Linux
6 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 4 (14.29%) Confluence
6 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
6 4 (14.29%) JIRA
6 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
6 4 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 4 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 4 (14.29%) Atlassian

Senior DBA 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Elite 3E
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle Database
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database 10g
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Discoverer
4 3 (10.71%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Replication
2 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) High Availability
1 14 (50.00%) Migration
2 9 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (32.14%) ETL
3 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 4 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 3 (10.71%) Database Tuning
4 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) Task Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.14%) Prototyping
6 1 (3.57%) Agile
6 1 (3.57%) Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Change Control
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.57%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (3.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Perl
3 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Data Guard
2 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Sybase
4 1 (3.57%) Intapp