DBA Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Database Administrator
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Barrow-in-Furness is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 2.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £492 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Barrow-in-Furness

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Barrow-in-Furness. 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 Barrow-in-Furness with a recognized job title 114 144 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.44% 95.36% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 70 114
10th Percentile £452 £400 £493
25th Percentile £465 £453 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £506 £627
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -19.30% +46.84%
75th Percentile £606 £597 £674
90th Percentile £700 £672 £725
Cumbria median daily rate £515 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +1.98% -19.20% +46.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 14
10th Percentile £34.34 - £28.52
25th Percentile £38.59 £25.26 £34.70
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.51 £44.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.82% +23.69% -21.94%
75th Percentile £65.25 £74.16 £46.91
90th Percentile £67.84 £80.59 £51.02
Cumbria median hourly rate £45.84 £40.88 £38.59
% change year-on-year +12.13% +5.93% -31.55%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

DBA job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

DBA Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Barrow-in-Furness region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) RedGate
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) RedGate
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
DBA jobs