DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 396 288
Rank change year-on-year +59 -108 +61
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 314 102 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.37% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.40% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 74 167
10th Percentile £363 £375 £358
25th Percentile £403 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -3.95% -2.06%
75th Percentile £584 £573 £611
90th Percentile £675 £675 £659
UK median daily rate £485 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £30.65 £32.45
25th Percentile - £37.63 £39.13
Median hourly rate - £51.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +17.99%
75th Percentile - £65.13 £65.13
90th Percentile - £72.55 £72.55
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year - -41.75% +17.99%

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 42,197 25,269 30,827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.56% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,494 16,320 20,128
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,350 1,742
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +26 105 £450 +0.61% 3
London -27 92 £525 +5.26% 15
North West +26 77 £463 +3.93% 2
South East -11 60 £417 -7.28% 9
Yorkshire -17 27 £425 -15.00% 1
Midlands -35 26 £449 - 10
West Midlands -39 20 £448 - 7
South West -30 19 £750 +22.45% 1
East Midlands -13 5 £463 - 3
East of England -17 5 £387 -18.63% 3
North East - 1 £501 -
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 185 (58.92%) SQL
2 171 (54.46%) Oracle
3 168 (53.50%) Security Cleared
4 143 (45.54%) SQL Server
5 128 (40.76%) SC Cleared
6 117 (37.26%) Performance Tuning
7 96 (30.57%) Oracle Database
8 94 (29.94%) High Availability
8 94 (29.94%) PostgreSQL
9 79 (25.16%) Microsoft
10 73 (23.25%) Disaster Recovery
11 66 (21.02%) AWS
12 60 (19.11%) Azure
13 58 (18.47%) Migration
14 55 (17.52%) MySQL
15 48 (15.29%) Oracle RMAN
16 47 (14.97%) DV Cleared
17 45 (14.33%) Database Security
18 43 (13.69%) Linux
19 41 (13.06%) Oracle RAC
20 40 (12.74%) ITIL
21 39 (12.42%) Data Guard
22 34 (10.83%) DevOps
23 33 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
23 33 (10.51%) Windows
24 31 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
25 30 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
25 30 (9.55%) PowerShell
25 30 (9.55%) Python
25 30 (9.55%) Unix

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 11 (3.50%) Confluence
2 6 (1.91%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Mendix
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (2.87%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.23%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (1.91%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.91%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (21.02%) AWS
2 60 (19.11%) Azure
3 14 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (4.14%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.82%) AWS KMS
5 12 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (1.91%) GCP
9 5 (1.59%) OCI
9 5 (1.59%) SaaS
9 5 (1.59%) Serverless
10 4 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.96%) GitHub
12 2 (0.64%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.55%) SSL
2 3 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (45.54%) SQL Server
2 96 (30.57%) Oracle Database
3 94 (29.94%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (17.52%) MySQL
5 29 (9.24%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (8.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (7.96%) MongoDB
8 22 (7.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (6.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (6.37%) Oracle Database 12c
11 15 (4.78%) Oracle Database 11g
11 15 (4.78%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.14%) Power BI
12 13 (4.14%) RDBMS
12 13 (4.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (3.50%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (2.87%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.55%) Redis
17 6 (1.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Git
2 10 (3.18%) GitLab
3 9 (2.87%) JIRA
4 7 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.59%) Flyway
6 4 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.96%) Toad
8 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.32%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 66 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.15%) Finance
3 27 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.46%) Banking
6 5 (1.59%) Legal
6 5 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.96%) Publishing
9 2 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Billing
10 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) International Banking
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.69%) Terraform
2 15 (4.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 8 (2.55%) JSON
4 7 (2.23%) Kafka
4 7 (2.23%) XML
5 6 (1.91%) OLE
6 4 (1.27%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.96%) GeoJSON
7 3 (0.96%) Matplotlib
7 3 (0.96%) Middleware
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle Streams
7 3 (0.96%) Pandas
7 3 (0.96%) Polars
7 3 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.64%) REST
9 1 (0.32%) Node.js
9 1 (0.32%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.32%) Spring
9 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.65%) Replication
2 29 (9.24%) Clustering
3 12 (3.82%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.27%) NHS
6 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.64%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.69%) Linux
2 33 (10.51%) Windows
3 30 (9.55%) Unix
4 18 (5.73%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.87%) Solaris
6 8 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.27%) AIX
7 4 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.32%) HPUX
9 1 (0.32%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (37.26%) Performance Tuning
2 94 (29.94%) High Availability
3 73 (23.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 58 (18.47%) Migration
5 45 (14.33%) Database Security
6 40 (12.74%) ITIL
7 34 (10.83%) DevOps
8 33 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (9.24%) Data Modelling
10 29 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
11 27 (8.60%) Database Tuning
12 25 (7.96%) Capacity Planning
12 25 (7.96%) CI/CD
13 23 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (6.37%) Database Migration
15 19 (6.05%) Agile
15 19 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (5.41%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (58.92%) SQL
2 30 (9.55%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.55%) Python
3 21 (6.69%) T-SQL
4 19 (6.05%) PL/SQL
5 12 (3.82%) Shell Script
6 8 (2.55%) Korn
7 7 (2.23%) Bash
8 5 (1.59%) Java
9 4 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.96%) Groovy
10 3 (0.96%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) C#
11 1 (0.32%) Cypher
11 1 (0.32%) RPG
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 168 (53.50%) Security Cleared
2 128 (40.76%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.97%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.73%) Oracle Certification
6 15 (4.78%) Degree
7 13 (4.14%) OCP
8 12 (3.82%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.50%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.27%) MCITP
14 4 (1.27%) MCTS
15 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.14%) QA
2 12 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.59%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.27%) GDPR
5 3 (0.96%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (13.06%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (15.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 39 (12.42%) Data Guard
3 17 (5.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 12 (3.82%) Ansible
5 11 (3.50%) SCOM
6 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (1.91%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.59%) Grafana
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 3 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.96%) Foglight
10 3 (0.96%) Nagios
11 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 171 (54.46%) Oracle
2 79 (25.16%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.82%) Remedy
5 11 (3.50%) BMC
6 9 (2.87%) VMware
7 7 (2.23%) Sybase
8 4 (1.27%) Commvault
8 4 (1.27%) Databricks
8 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.64%) Cerner
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe
11 1 (0.32%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.32%) EMC
11 1 (0.32%) Google
11 1 (0.32%) IBM
11 1 (0.32%) NetApp
11 1 (0.32%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.32%) Splunk
37 DBA jobs in England