DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 375 332
Rank change year-on-year +21 -43 +27
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 261 101 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.45% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 64 156
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £616
90th Percentile £675 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £32.45
25th Percentile - £61.87 £39.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £63.75 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.86% +23.78% +48.01%
75th Percentile - £65.62 £65.13
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £63.75 £51.50
% change year-on-year -56.86% +23.78% +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 39,165 22,521 34,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.41% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 14,805 22,602
10th Percentile £325 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 973 2,623
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.33 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.32% -25.75% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.73% -25.33% -16.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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
London -49 76 £500 -4.76% 6
North of England -15 72 £430 -3.48% 8
South East -17 60 £417 -16.56% 3
North West -4 44 £447 +3.50% 8
Midlands -34 30 £463 - 5
Yorkshire -33 28 £400 -30.43%
West Midlands -38 24 £481 - 2
South West -12 17 £740 +42.31% 4
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 3
East of England -35 2 £388 -8.82% 7
North East - 1 £501 -
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 149 (57.09%) Oracle
2 134 (51.34%) SQL
3 112 (42.91%) Security Cleared
4 105 (40.23%) Oracle Database
5 103 (39.46%) SQL Server
6 81 (31.03%) Performance Tuning
7 78 (29.89%) SC Cleared
8 76 (29.12%) High Availability
9 60 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
10 52 (19.92%) Microsoft
11 47 (18.01%) Oracle RMAN
12 45 (17.24%) AWS
12 45 (17.24%) Migration
13 43 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
14 41 (15.71%) DV Cleared
15 40 (15.33%) Azure
16 38 (14.56%) Database Security
17 36 (13.79%) Linux
18 33 (12.64%) MySQL
19 30 (11.49%) Oracle RAC
20 29 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
21 28 (10.73%) Data Guard
22 27 (10.34%) Unix
23 26 (9.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
24 25 (9.58%) DevOps
25 24 (9.20%) ITIL
25 24 (9.20%) Python
26 23 (8.81%) MongoDB
26 23 (8.81%) PL/SQL
26 23 (8.81%) PowerShell

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 (2.30%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.92%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.77%) Liferay
5 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.15%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.24%) AWS
2 40 (15.33%) Azure
3 6 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (2.30%) OCI
4 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 5 (1.92%) SaaS
4 5 (1.92%) Serverless
5 4 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.15%) GitHub
6 3 (1.15%) PaaS
7 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.77%) GCP
7 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.38%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (40.23%) Oracle Database
2 103 (39.46%) SQL Server
3 60 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (12.64%) MySQL
5 26 (9.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 23 (8.81%) MongoDB
7 22 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (8.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (7.28%) Oracle Database 12c
10 15 (5.75%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (5.36%) Oracle Database 11g
11 14 (5.36%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (4.60%) RDBMS
14 10 (3.83%) NoSQL
14 10 (3.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (2.30%) Big Data
16 6 (2.30%) Oracle Exadata
17 4 (1.53%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (4.21%) GitLab
2 10 (3.83%) Git
3 7 (2.68%) Oracle APEX
4 6 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.53%) Flyway
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.77%) JIRA
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (14.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.20%) Finance
2 24 (9.20%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.45%) Banking
5 6 (2.30%) Legal
6 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.53%) Military
6 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.15%) Publishing
8 2 (0.77%) Aviation
8 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
9 1 (0.38%) Billing
9 1 (0.38%) International Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Local Government
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 8 (3.07%) JSON
3 7 (2.68%) Kafka
3 7 (2.68%) XML
4 6 (2.30%) OLE
5 4 (1.53%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.15%) GeoJSON
6 3 (1.15%) Matplotlib
6 3 (1.15%) Middleware
6 3 (1.15%) Pandas
6 3 (1.15%) Polars
6 3 (1.15%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle ADF
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.77%) REST
8 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.38%) pgvector
8 1 (0.38%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.58%) Replication
2 19 (7.28%) Clustering
3 7 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.77%) NHS
6 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.38%) Life Science
7 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.38%) SCADA
7 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.79%) Linux
2 27 (10.34%) Unix
3 18 (6.90%) Windows
4 11 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.53%) AIX
6 4 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.38%) HPUX
7 1 (0.38%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.03%) Performance Tuning
2 76 (29.12%) High Availability
3 45 (17.24%) Migration
4 43 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (14.56%) Database Security
6 29 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (9.58%) DevOps
8 24 (9.20%) ITIL
9 19 (7.28%) Capacity Planning
10 16 (6.13%) Agile
11 15 (5.75%) Data Migration
11 15 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (5.75%) Task Automation
12 14 (5.36%) Database Tuning
13 13 (4.98%) CI/CD
13 13 (4.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (4.60%) Data Protection
14 12 (4.60%) Database Migration
14 12 (4.60%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 134 (51.34%) SQL
2 24 (9.20%) Python
3 23 (8.81%) PL/SQL
3 23 (8.81%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.51%) Shell Script
5 16 (6.13%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.83%) Korn
7 6 (2.30%) Bash
8 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.77%) Java
10 1 (0.38%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) Groovy
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.38%) RPG
10 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 112 (42.91%) Security Cleared
2 78 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.71%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.68%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (2.30%) Degree
6 6 (2.30%) OCP
7 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) MCITP
7 4 (1.53%) MCTS
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.68%) QA
2 6 (2.30%) GDPR
3 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.92%) SLA
4 2 (0.77%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (11.49%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle Clusterware
3 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (18.01%) Oracle RMAN
2 28 (10.73%) Data Guard
3 16 (6.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 9 (3.45%) Ansible
4 9 (3.45%) Terraform
5 4 (1.53%) Foglight
6 3 (1.15%) Grafana
6 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 149 (57.09%) Oracle
2 52 (19.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.68%) SolarWinds
4 6 (2.30%) RedGate
4 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.92%) Databricks
5 5 (1.92%) Sybase
6 3 (1.15%) BMC
6 3 (1.15%) Remedy
7 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.38%) EMC
8 1 (0.38%) Google
8 1 (0.38%) IBM
8 1 (0.38%) NetApp
8 1 (0.38%) NetCracker
8 1 (0.38%) Wonderware