DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 361 338
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +19
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 254 115 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.50% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 69 140
10th Percentile £355 £340 £375
25th Percentile £392 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £649 £614 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Median hourly rate £27.50 £63.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.86% +127.66% -25.13%
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £63.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year -56.86% +127.66% -25.13%

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 36,815 22,791 34,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,071 15,196 22,978
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,480 893 2,410
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.74 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -30 90 £500 +11.11% 3
North of England -13 76 £434 -2.47% 7
North West -10 48 £450 +1.12% 5
South East -45 46 £417 -16.56% 12
Midlands -30 31 £456 +8.63% 9
Yorkshire -31 29 £400 - 1
West Midlands -33 26 £449 - 6
South West - 8 £606 - 3
East Midlands -30 4 £463 +10.12% 3
East of England -42 1 £375 -11.76% 2
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 135 (53.15%) Oracle
2 121 (47.64%) SQL
3 97 (38.19%) Security Cleared
4 92 (36.22%) SQL Server
5 87 (34.25%) Oracle Database
6 78 (30.71%) SC Cleared
7 69 (27.17%) Performance Tuning
8 66 (25.98%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (24.02%) High Availability
10 47 (18.50%) Microsoft
11 45 (17.72%) Disaster Recovery
12 41 (16.14%) AWS
12 41 (16.14%) Oracle RMAN
13 40 (15.75%) Migration
14 39 (15.35%) Azure
14 39 (15.35%) Database Security
15 34 (13.39%) MySQL
16 32 (12.60%) DevOps
16 32 (12.60%) Linux
16 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (11.02%) MongoDB
18 27 (10.63%) Unix
19 26 (10.24%) Oracle RAC
20 25 (9.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 23 (9.06%) PL/SQL
22 22 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
22 22 (8.66%) ITIL
23 21 (8.27%) Agile
23 21 (8.27%) Data Guard
23 21 (8.27%) Python

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 (2.36%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.18%) Confluence
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.79%) Liferay
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.14%) AWS
2 39 (15.35%) Azure
3 14 (5.51%) Serverless
4 11 (4.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (2.76%) OCI
6 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.97%) SaaS
8 4 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.57%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.57%) PaaS
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Storage
10 2 (0.79%) IaaS
10 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (36.22%) SQL Server
2 87 (34.25%) Oracle Database
3 66 (25.98%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (13.39%) MySQL
5 28 (11.02%) MongoDB
6 25 (9.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (7.87%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (7.09%) NoSQL
9 18 (7.09%) Relational Database
10 17 (6.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (6.30%) RDBMS
12 15 (5.91%) Oracle Database 12c
13 13 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (3.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (3.15%) Oracle Database 11g
16 6 (2.36%) Big Data
17 5 (1.97%) Oracle Exadata
18 4 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
18 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Git
2 7 (2.76%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.36%) GitLab
4 4 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.18%) Flyway
5 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 36 (14.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.02%) Finance
3 25 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.51%) Banking
6 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
6 5 (1.97%) Legal
7 3 (1.18%) Military
7 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.18%) Publishing
8 2 (0.79%) Aviation
8 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.79%) Local Government
8 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.39%) Advertising
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Billing
9 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.39%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 13 (5.12%) JSON
3 12 (4.72%) XML
4 9 (3.54%) Kafka
5 6 (2.36%) OLE
6 4 (1.57%) .NET
6 4 (1.57%) Node.js
7 3 (1.18%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.18%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.18%) GeoJSON
7 3 (1.18%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.18%) Pandas
7 3 (1.18%) Polars
7 3 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.39%) Middleware
9 1 (0.39%) REST
9 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.87%) Replication
2 17 (6.69%) Clustering
3 8 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.15%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.39%) Life Science
8 1 (0.39%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.60%) Linux
2 27 (10.63%) Unix
3 12 (4.72%) Windows
4 7 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.39%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.17%) Performance Tuning
2 61 (24.02%) High Availability
3 45 (17.72%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (15.75%) Migration
5 39 (15.35%) Database Security
6 32 (12.60%) DevOps
6 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (8.66%) ITIL
8 21 (8.27%) Agile
9 17 (6.69%) Capacity Planning
10 16 (6.30%) Database Tuning
11 15 (5.91%) Mentoring
11 15 (5.91%) Task Automation
12 14 (5.51%) Data Modelling
12 14 (5.51%) Data Protection
13 13 (5.12%) Data Migration
14 11 (4.33%) CI/CD
14 11 (4.33%) Performance Monitoring
15 10 (3.94%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (3.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 121 (47.64%) SQL
2 23 (9.06%) PL/SQL
3 21 (8.27%) Python
4 19 (7.48%) Shell Script
5 18 (7.09%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.30%) T-SQL
7 10 (3.94%) Korn
8 6 (2.36%) Bash
9 4 (1.57%) C#
10 3 (1.18%) Perl
10 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.39%) RPG
11 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 78 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.54%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (3.15%) OCP
7 5 (1.97%) Degree
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.57%) MCITP
8 4 (1.57%) MCTS
9 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.76%) QA
2 6 (2.36%) GDPR
2 6 (2.36%) SLA
3 5 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) NIST
4 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (10.24%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 41 (16.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (8.27%) Data Guard
3 17 (6.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (2.76%) Ansible
5 5 (1.97%) Foglight
6 4 (1.57%) Terraform
7 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.79%) Grafana
8 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.79%) systemd
9 1 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (53.15%) Oracle
2 47 (18.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.36%) RedGate
3 6 (2.36%) SolarWinds
4 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.57%) Databricks
5 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.57%) Sybase
6 3 (1.18%) BMC
6 3 (1.18%) Remedy
7 1 (0.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.39%) EMC
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) NEC
7 1 (0.39%) NetApp
7 1 (0.39%) NetCracker
7 1 (0.39%) Wonderware