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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 384 324
Rank change year-on-year +43 -60 +24
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 261 106 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.47% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 64 149
10th Percentile £356 £331 £375
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £541 £625
90th Percentile £649 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
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 38,064 22,370 33,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,623 14,863 22,425
10th Percentile £320 £296 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,618 925 2,441
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -18.89%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -26 86 £500 +2.56% 8
North of England -13 70 £432 -2.92% 10
South East -14 63 £417 -16.56% 20
North West -8 42 £447 +0.45% 7
Midlands -30 31 £463 - 4
Yorkshire -26 28 £400 -30.43% 2
West Midlands -36 25 £481 - 1
South West - 7 £606 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £463 - 3
East of England -28 2 £388 -8.82%
North East - 1 £501 - 1
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 142 (54.41%) Oracle
2 125 (47.89%) SQL
3 106 (40.61%) Security Cleared
4 98 (37.55%) Oracle Database
5 90 (34.48%) SQL Server
6 80 (30.65%) SC Cleared
7 74 (28.35%) Performance Tuning
8 67 (25.67%) High Availability
9 60 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (17.62%) Oracle RMAN
11 44 (16.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 42 (16.09%) Microsoft
13 40 (15.33%) AWS
13 40 (15.33%) Migration
14 37 (14.18%) Azure
14 37 (14.18%) Database Security
15 36 (13.79%) Linux
16 32 (12.26%) DevOps
17 30 (11.49%) DV Cleared
17 30 (11.49%) MySQL
17 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (11.11%) MongoDB
19 28 (10.73%) Oracle RAC
20 27 (10.34%) Unix
21 25 (9.58%) Data Guard
21 25 (9.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
22 24 (9.20%) PL/SQL
23 23 (8.81%) Amazon RDS
24 22 (8.43%) ITIL
24 22 (8.43%) 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 8 (3.07%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.92%) Confluence
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.77%) Liferay
6 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.98%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.30%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.15%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.33%) AWS
2 37 (14.18%) Azure
3 12 (4.60%) Serverless
4 11 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (2.68%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.68%) OCI
6 6 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.92%) SaaS
8 4 (1.53%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.53%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.53%) PaaS
9 3 (1.15%) Azure Storage
10 2 (0.77%) GitHub
10 2 (0.77%) IaaS
10 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (37.55%) Oracle Database
2 90 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 60 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (11.49%) MySQL
5 29 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 25 (9.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (8.81%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (8.05%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (6.51%) Oracle Database 12c
11 16 (6.13%) NoSQL
11 16 (6.13%) Relational Database
12 14 (5.36%) RDBMS
13 12 (4.60%) Oracle Database 11g
14 11 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (2.30%) Big Data
16 6 (2.30%) Oracle Exadata
17 5 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
18 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.60%) Git
2 9 (3.45%) GitLab
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 31 (11.88%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.58%) Finance
2 25 (9.58%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.98%) Banking
5 6 (2.30%) Legal
6 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.15%) Military
7 3 (1.15%) 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%) Local Government
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.36%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 12 (4.60%) JSON
3 11 (4.21%) XML
4 10 (3.83%) Kafka
5 6 (2.30%) OLE
6 4 (1.53%) .NET
6 4 (1.53%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.53%) Node.js
7 3 (1.15%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.15%) GeoJSON
7 3 (1.15%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.15%) Middleware
7 3 (1.15%) Pandas
7 3 (1.15%) Polars
7 3 (1.15%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.77%) REST
9 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.05%) Replication
2 17 (6.51%) Clustering
3 8 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.77%) NHS
9 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.38%) Life Science
9 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.79%) Linux
2 27 (10.34%) Unix
3 13 (4.98%) Windows
4 7 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.35%) Performance Tuning
2 67 (25.67%) High Availability
3 44 (16.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (15.33%) Migration
5 37 (14.18%) Database Security
6 32 (12.26%) DevOps
7 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (8.43%) ITIL
9 21 (8.05%) Agile
10 19 (7.28%) Capacity Planning
11 17 (6.51%) Task Automation
12 15 (5.75%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.75%) Database Tuning
12 15 (5.75%) Mentoring
13 14 (5.36%) Data Modelling
13 14 (5.36%) Data Protection
14 12 (4.60%) Data Migration
15 11 (4.21%) Performance Optimisation
16 10 (3.83%) Project Delivery
16 10 (3.83%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 125 (47.89%) SQL
2 24 (9.20%) PL/SQL
3 22 (8.43%) Python
4 20 (7.66%) PowerShell
5 18 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 14 (5.36%) T-SQL
7 10 (3.83%) Korn
8 6 (2.30%) Bash
9 4 (1.53%) C#
9 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.15%) Perl
11 2 (0.77%) Java
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) RPG
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (40.61%) Security Cleared
2 80 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (3.07%) OCP
7 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.92%) Degree
8 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.53%) MCITP
8 4 (1.53%) MCTS
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
4 4 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (10.73%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Clusterware
5 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (17.62%) Oracle RMAN
2 25 (9.58%) Data Guard
3 17 (6.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (2.68%) Ansible
4 7 (2.68%) Terraform
5 5 (1.92%) Foglight
6 3 (1.15%) Grafana
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.77%) systemd
8 1 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 142 (54.41%) Oracle
2 42 (16.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.30%) RedGate
3 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
3 6 (2.30%) SolarWinds
4 5 (1.92%) Databricks
5 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.53%) Sybase
6 3 (1.15%) BMC
6 3 (1.15%) Remedy
7 1 (0.38%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.38%) EMC
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) NetApp
7 1 (0.38%) NetCracker
7 1 (0.38%) Wonderware