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 £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 145
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +33
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 10 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.53% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.68% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 13
10th Percentile £417 £425 £400
25th Percentile £513 £498 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £610 £575
90th Percentile £720 £688 £644
Central London median daily rate £618 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +12.36% +4.76% -
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,750 2,049 3,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.17% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,397 2,261
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £450 £453 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.05% -8.29% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.05 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £62.00 £50.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £84.25 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -20.54% -15.66%

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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 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 City of London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (40.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Replication
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) NFS
6 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Clustering
6 2 (20.00%) AWK
6 2 (20.00%) Bash
6 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (20.00%) sed
6 2 (20.00%) Database Security
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (20.00%) GPFS
6 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Database Security
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) AWK
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) sed
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) GPFS
1 2 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) VMware