DBA Contracts in Central London

Database Administrator
London > Central London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Central London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 151
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 +25
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 7 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.60% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £414 £504 £503
25th Percentile £442 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £584 £663 £625
90th Percentile £674 £688 £644
London median daily rate £494 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -15.60% +11.43% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £79.89
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +169.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 7 £525 -12.50%
DBA
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Central London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) SQL
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (14.29%) ETRM
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware