DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 404 304
Rank change year-on-year +51 -100 +59
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 289 100 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.37% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.40% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 70 173
10th Percentile £359 £404 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £615
90th Percentile £675 £710 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £496
% change year-on-year - -4.28% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.45
25th Percentile - £72.50 £39.13
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - +45.63% +48.01%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £65.13
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year - +45.63% +48.01%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,444 25,115 34,097
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.03% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,363 16,356 22,299
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,982 1,217 2,452
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.20 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £45.56 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.84% -28.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.88%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DBA job vacancy trend in England

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in England

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in England

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in England

DBA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
North of England +6 99 £441 -0.90% 12
North West +6 69 £447 +0.45% 12
London -43 69 £488 -7.14% 19
South East -24 64 £417 -7.28% 6
Yorkshire -25 30 £400 -25.58%
Midlands -30 26 £450 - 3
South West -21 20 £750 +8.30% 4
West Midlands -51 20 £447 - 2
East Midlands -10 5 £463 - 1
East of England -22 5 £387 -9.06%
North East - 1 £501 -
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 167 (57.79%) Oracle
2 158 (54.67%) SQL
3 141 (48.79%) Security Cleared
4 135 (46.71%) SQL Server
5 102 (35.29%) Oracle Database
6 101 (34.95%) Performance Tuning
7 100 (34.60%) SC Cleared
8 78 (26.99%) High Availability
9 76 (26.30%) PostgreSQL
10 73 (25.26%) Microsoft
11 58 (20.07%) Azure
12 54 (18.69%) AWS
13 53 (18.34%) Disaster Recovery
14 48 (16.61%) DV Cleared
15 45 (15.57%) MySQL
15 45 (15.57%) Oracle RMAN
16 44 (15.22%) Database Security
16 44 (15.22%) Linux
17 41 (14.19%) ITIL
17 41 (14.19%) Migration
18 35 (12.11%) Oracle RAC
18 35 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (12.11%) Unix
19 31 (10.73%) Data Guard
20 30 (10.38%) Python
21 29 (10.03%) DevOps
22 28 (9.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
23 26 (9.00%) Capacity Planning
23 26 (9.00%) PowerShell
24 25 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.08%) Confluence
1 6 (2.08%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Mendix
4 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.42%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.08%) Teamcenter
4 5 (1.73%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.07%) Azure
2 54 (18.69%) AWS
3 7 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (2.08%) OCI
4 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.73%) GCP
5 5 (1.73%) SaaS
5 5 (1.73%) Serverless
6 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.04%) GitHub
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.69%) AWS KMS
7 2 (0.69%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.69%) PaaS
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) SSL
2 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (46.71%) SQL Server
2 102 (35.29%) Oracle Database
3 76 (26.30%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (15.57%) MySQL
5 28 (9.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (6.92%) MongoDB
7 19 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (6.57%) Oracle Database 12c
7 19 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (5.19%) Relational Database
10 13 (4.50%) RDBMS
11 11 (3.81%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (3.11%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.42%) Sybase ASE
15 6 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
15 6 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.81%) Git
2 10 (3.46%) GitLab
3 7 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.38%) Flyway
4 4 (1.38%) JIRA
4 4 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 51 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.69%) Finance
3 27 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.46%) Banking
6 6 (2.08%) Legal
7 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.04%) Publishing
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Military
10 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) International Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 8 (2.77%) JSON
3 7 (2.42%) Kafka
3 7 (2.42%) XML
4 6 (2.08%) OLE
5 4 (1.38%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.04%) GeoJSON
6 3 (1.04%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.04%) Middleware
6 3 (1.04%) Pandas
6 3 (1.04%) Polars
6 3 (1.04%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.69%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.35%) Node.js
8 1 (0.35%) pgvector
8 1 (0.35%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.35%) PySpark
8 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.11%) Replication
2 24 (8.30%) Clustering
3 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.69%) NHS
6 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.35%) Life Science
7 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.22%) Linux
2 35 (12.11%) Unix
3 24 (8.30%) Windows
4 17 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.42%) Solaris
6 5 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.38%) AIX
7 4 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) HPUX
9 1 (0.35%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.95%) Performance Tuning
2 78 (26.99%) High Availability
3 53 (18.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 44 (15.22%) Database Security
5 41 (14.19%) ITIL
5 41 (14.19%) Migration
6 35 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (10.03%) DevOps
8 26 (9.00%) Capacity Planning
9 19 (6.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (6.23%) Agile
10 18 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (5.88%) Database Tuning
11 17 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (5.88%) Task Automation
12 16 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (5.19%) CI/CD
13 15 (5.19%) Database Migration
14 12 (4.15%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 158 (54.67%) SQL
2 30 (10.38%) Python
3 26 (9.00%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.96%) T-SQL
5 17 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 16 (5.54%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.46%) Korn
8 8 (2.77%) Bash
9 4 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.04%) Java
11 2 (0.69%) Groovy
11 2 (0.69%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) C#
12 1 (0.35%) Cypher
12 1 (0.35%) RPG
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 141 (48.79%) Security Cleared
2 100 (34.60%) SC Cleared
3 48 (16.61%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.84%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (3.81%) Degree
7 9 (3.11%) OCP
8 8 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.38%) MCITP
9 4 (1.38%) MCTS
10 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.42%) QA
2 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.08%) SLA
3 5 (1.73%) GDPR
3 5 (1.73%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (12.11%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 31 (10.73%) Data Guard
3 17 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 13 (4.50%) Ansible
5 11 (3.81%) Terraform
6 5 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.73%) SCOM
7 4 (1.38%) Grafana
8 3 (1.04%) Foglight
9 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 167 (57.79%) Oracle
2 73 (25.26%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.77%) Sybase
5 7 (2.42%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.08%) RedGate
7 4 (1.38%) Databricks
7 4 (1.38%) Remedy
8 3 (1.04%) BMC
8 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) Adobe
9 1 (0.35%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.35%) EMC
9 1 (0.35%) Google
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) NetApp
9 1 (0.35%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.35%) Splunk
9 1 (0.35%) Wonderware