DBA Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Database Administrator
South London > Croydon

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Croydon is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 10.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £530 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 130 79 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.89% 96.34% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 54 57
10th Percentile £164 £285 £381
25th Percentile £479 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £647
South London median daily rate £525 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £18.34 - -
25th Percentile £21.45 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £33.60 - £19.50
75th Percentile £124.65 - £35.06
90th Percentile £155.03 - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £58.74 £17.98 £19.50
% change year-on-year +226.67% -7.79% -55.52%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

DBA job vacancy trend in Croydon

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Croydon

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. 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
South Croydon - 5 £525 -
DBA
South London

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 Croydon region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 10 (71.43%) AWS KMS
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (71.43%) High Availability
2 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 9 (64.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 6 (42.86%) Data Reconciliation
4 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
4 6 (42.86%) MySQL
4 6 (42.86%) Redis
4 6 (42.86%) Secrets Management
4 6 (42.86%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (42.86%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (71.43%) AWS KMS
2 10 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 14 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
3 6 (42.86%) MySQL
3 6 (42.86%) Redis
3 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (71.43%) High Availability
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (64.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 6 (42.86%) Data Reconciliation
3 6 (42.86%) Secrets Management
3 6 (42.86%) Validation
4 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Observability
5 4 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Groovy
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Perl
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) AWS Certification
3 6 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow