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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 160 179
Rank change year-on-year +49 +19 -46
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 16 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.52% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 18
10th Percentile £434 £492 £450
25th Percentile £513 £516 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +4.53%
75th Percentile £654 £575 £588
90th Percentile £685 £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 2,107 3,495 4,020
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.26% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,366 3,035
10th Percentile £350 £350 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) MySQL
4 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (25.00%) Replication
5 4 (25.00%) Linux
5 4 (25.00%) IBM
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
5 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
6 3 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (18.75%) Sybase ASE
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) QA
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Python
6 3 (18.75%) RDBMS

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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) DB2
3 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (18.75%) Sybase ASE
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Couchbase
5 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Data Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Database Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Database Security
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 3 (18.75%) Sun
3 3 (18.75%) Sybase
3 3 (18.75%) Veritas
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) Google