How to hire a databases software consultant

How to hire a databases software consultant, step by step

Here's a step-by-step databases software consultant hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a databases software consultant job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new databases software consultant
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

Post a databases software consultant job for free, promote it for a fee

Post free

1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your databases software consultant job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a databases software consultant for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

   Is the person you're thinking of hiring a US citizen or green card holder?

   Yes

   No

   You should also consider the ideal background you'd like them a databases software consultant to have before you start to hire. For example, what industry or field would you like them to have experience in, what level of seniority or education does the job require, and how much it'll cost to hire a databases software consultant that fits the bill.

   This list presents databases software consultant salaries for various positions.

   Type of Databases Software Consultant	Description	Hourly rate
   Databases Software Consultant	Database administrators (DBAs) use specialized software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They make sure that data are available to users and are secure from unauthorized access.	$26-55
   Salesforce Administrator	A salesforce administrator is considered the gatekeeper for the marketing data and sales of their employer. The administrators create each user account and identify the proper data access level based on the role of the employees within the company... Show more	$31-54
   Development Administrator	A community development administrator is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing a community's social, physical, and economic growth. Your duties typically include supervising the construction of public infrastructures such as roads and schools, providing assistance to both private and public developers, and managing public projects, including parks and hospitals... Show more	$31-60

   Show more

2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Microsoft SQL Server
   • Windows

   Responsibilities:

   • Developed/Maintain software to fully automate businesses onto PC's.
   • Perform benchmarking, prototyping, and date extract analysis for ETL process enhancement.
   • Utilize the DTS wizard as well as SSIS regularly to transfer production data to test/production.
   • Contribute to overall database extract, transform, and load (ETL) architecture for the conversion.
   • Provide application development team support for troubleshooting and optimization of SSIS packages.
   • Develop an import utility which accepts XML base data from legacy applications.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your databases software consultant job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A databases software consultant can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, databases software consultants' average salary in oklahoma is 31% less than in washington.
   • Seniority. Entry-level databases software consultants 51% less than senior-level databases software consultants.
   • Certifications. A databases software consultant with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a databases software consultant's salary.

   Average databases software consultant salary

   $81,078yearly

   $38.98 hourly rate

   ---

   Entry-level databases software consultant salary

   $56,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 14, 2025

4. Writing a databases software consultant job description

   A job description for a databases software consultant role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a databases software consultant job description:

   Databases software consultant job description example

   COVID\-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities\. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID\-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security\.
   
   To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires\. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID\-19 Community Level at the specific work location\.
   **Description:** The coolest jobs on this planet... or any other... are with Lockheed Martin Space\.
   
   At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator, and builder\. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills, talents, and experiences to design and build solutions to some of the world's hardest engineering problems\. Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration, and focus-if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you\.
   
   Lockheed Martin is searching for an experienced professional looking to join our Software/Database Test team on the COOLR \(Combined Orbital Operations Logistics and Resilience\) contract in Colorado Springs, CO\. The Test team performs system integration testing on all COOLR mission and security releases prior to delivery to our critical operational users\. The individual selected for this position will need to be comfortable working in a dynamic and flexible environment and must be available to work onsite full\-time at Peterson Space Force Base\.
   
   In this role, you will:
   
   • Perform planning, test execution, data analysis and discrepancy reporting for operational software and database products to ensure readiness for fielding to internal and external users\.
   
   • Create system test plans and procedures, ensuring tests plans and procedures support all applicable software and related system requirements
   
   • Conduct requirement, functional, performance and regression testing
   
   • Document discrepancies and test report/results
   
   • Work closely with teammates in an Agile environment as the Test Product Owner\.
   
   • As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining Features and Stories and prioritizing the backlog content to maintain focused execution of the team's work\.
   
   • Champion digital transformation and automation efforts in support of program and corporate strategic initiatives
   
   • Manage Test Lab resources
   
   **Basic Qualifications:**
   
   • Final DOD Secret clearance required to start
   
   • Proficiency with SQL
   
   **Desired Skills:**
   
   • Prior Test or Verification/Validation experience
   
   • Oracle DB experience
   
   • UNIX/ experience
   
   • Jira experience
   
   • Git/Gitlab experience
   
   • Agile experience \(SAFe or Scrum\)
   
   • Continuous learning and growth mindset; continually evaluating, learning, and adopting new technologies
   
   • Experience working in a Military environment
   
   • Tools/Scripting experience
   
   **BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:**
   
   job\.Qualifications
   
   **Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer\. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status\.**
   
   Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours\. Our customers tackle the hardest missions\. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision\. They're dangerous\. Critical\. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives\. Those are the missions we care about\.
   
   As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges\. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U\.S\., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories\.
   
   **EXPERIENCE LEVEL:**
   
   Experienced Professional

   Copy this example

   

5. Post your job

   There are various strategies that you can use to find the right databases software consultant for your business:

   • Consider promoting from within or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to find candidates who meet your education requirements.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your databases software consultant job on Zippia to find and recruit databases software consultant candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as dice, engineering.com, stack overflow, it job pro.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   During your first interview to recruit databases software consultants, engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. During the following interview, you'll be able to go into more detail about the company, the position, and the responsibilities.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   If your interviews with databases software consultant applicants aren't enough to make a decision, you should also consider including a test project. These are often the best, most straightforward, and least bias-prone ways of determining who will likely succeed in the role. If you don't know how to design an appropriate test, you can ask someone else on the team to create it or take a look at these websites to get a few ideas:

   • TestDome
   • CodeSignal
   • Testlify
   • BarRaiser
   • Coderbyte

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new databases software consultant

   Once you've decided on a perfect databases software consultant candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new databases software consultant. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

   Sign up to download full list

   Sign up

How much does it cost to hire a databases software consultant?