DBA Contracts in Blackpool

Database Administrator
Lancashire > Blackpool

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Blackpool is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blackpool 16.67% - 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% - 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £375 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Blackpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Blackpool. 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 Blackpool with a recognized job title 18 19 74
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 55
10th Percentile £153 £255 £476
25th Percentile £378 £259 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £285 £623
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -54.22% +13.18%
75th Percentile £507 £650 £681
90th Percentile £526 £668 £712
Lancashire median daily rate £475 £484 £525
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £37.29 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.53% -5.12% +12.43%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Blackpool

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Blackpool

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Blackpool

DBA Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackpool

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 Blackpool region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
5 DBA jobs in Lancashire