DBA Contracts in the City of London

Database Administrator
Central London > City of London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the City of London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 156 174
Rank change year-on-year +45 +18 -37
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 13 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.60% 0.50% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £504 £492 £441
25th Percentile £550 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +4.53%
75th Percentile £663 £622 £588
90th Percentile £688 £645 £625
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
Central London median hourly rate - £84.09 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,064 3,451 4,017
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.17% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 2,348 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the City of London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the City of London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the City of London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the City of London

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 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 City of 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 the City of 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