DBA Contracts in Central London

Database Administrator
London > Central London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Central London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 156 175
Rank change year-on-year +39 +19 -31
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 13 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.54% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 18
10th Percentile £504 £501 £441
25th Percentile £550 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +4.53%
75th Percentile £663 £628 £588
90th Percentile £688 £644 £625
London median daily rate £585 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +11.43% -7.08% +15.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate - £84.09 £31.25
% change year-on-year - +169.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,313 3,670 4,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 95.20% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 2,509 3,264
10th Percentile £348 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +44 13 £600 +9.09% 2
City of Westminster 0 2 - -
DBA
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Central London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Replication
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Sybase
3 3 (23.08%) DB2
3 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Sun
3 3 (23.08%) Veritas
3 3 (23.08%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) DB2
2 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
2 3 (23.08%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Replication
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Database Security
5 1 (7.69%) Functional Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Data Guard
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 3 (23.08%) Sun
2 3 (23.08%) Sybase
2 3 (23.08%) Veritas
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Google