DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 415 299
Rank change year-on-year +84 -116 +62
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 311 99 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.36% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.39% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 72 165
10th Percentile £363 £375 £355
25th Percentile £404 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.63% -2.06%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +8.11% -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 42,263 25,262 30,879
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.54% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,421 16,297 19,929
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 3,239 1,381 1,691
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.38 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 27 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 27 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 +14 103 £454 +1.45% 11
London -25 92 £525 +5.26% 8
North West +13 74 £478 +7.42% 11
South East -12 58 £431 -4.20% 6
Yorkshire -25 28 £450 -10.00%
Midlands -34 24 £449 - 5
South West -34 19 £750 +22.45%
West Midlands -35 18 £448 - 3
East of England -19 6 £400 -15.79% 5
East Midlands -11 5 £463 - 2
North East - 1 £501 -
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 184 (59.16%) SQL
2 168 (54.02%) Security Cleared
3 167 (53.70%) Oracle
4 140 (45.02%) SQL Server
5 128 (41.16%) SC Cleared
6 119 (38.26%) Performance Tuning
7 97 (31.19%) Oracle Database
8 96 (30.87%) High Availability
9 89 (28.62%) PostgreSQL
10 76 (24.44%) Microsoft
11 72 (23.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 66 (21.22%) AWS
13 61 (19.61%) Azure
14 56 (18.01%) Migration
15 51 (16.40%) MySQL
16 49 (15.76%) Oracle RMAN
17 48 (15.43%) DV Cleared
18 45 (14.47%) Linux
19 42 (13.50%) Oracle RAC
20 40 (12.86%) Data Guard
20 40 (12.86%) Database Security
20 40 (12.86%) ITIL
21 34 (10.93%) Windows
22 33 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
23 32 (10.29%) DevOps
23 32 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
23 32 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
24 31 (9.97%) PowerShell
24 31 (9.97%) Unix
25 30 (9.65%) 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 11 (3.54%) Confluence
2 6 (1.93%) 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 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (3.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (2.89%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.25%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (1.93%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.93%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 66 (21.22%) AWS
2 61 (19.61%) Azure
3 15 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (4.18%) AWS KMS
4 13 (4.18%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (1.93%) GCP
8 5 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.61%) OCI
8 5 (1.61%) SaaS
9 4 (1.29%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.96%) GitHub
11 2 (0.64%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.64%) PaaS
11 2 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.57%) SSL
2 4 (1.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (45.02%) SQL Server
2 97 (31.19%) Oracle Database
3 89 (28.62%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (16.40%) MySQL
5 28 (9.00%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (8.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (7.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (7.07%) MongoDB
9 21 (6.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (6.43%) Oracle Database 12c
11 16 (5.14%) Oracle Database 11g
12 13 (4.18%) Power BI
12 13 (4.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (3.86%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.22%) RDBMS
15 9 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (2.57%) Redis
17 7 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
18 6 (1.93%) Big Data
18 6 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (3.86%) Git
2 10 (3.22%) JIRA
3 9 (2.89%) GitLab
4 7 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.29%) Flyway
5 4 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.96%) Toad
7 1 (0.32%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
General
1 68 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.93%) Finance
3 28 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.82%) Banking
6 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.29%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.29%) Legal
8 3 (0.96%) Publishing
9 2 (0.64%) Military
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 22 (7.07%) Terraform
2 15 (4.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 6 (1.93%) OLE
4 5 (1.61%) JSON
5 4 (1.29%) Kafka
5 4 (1.29%) XML
6 3 (0.96%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.96%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.96%) Matplotlib
6 3 (0.96%) Middleware
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle Streams
6 3 (0.96%) Pandas
6 3 (0.96%) Polars
6 3 (0.96%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.64%) REST
8 1 (0.32%) Node.js
8 1 (0.32%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.32%) Spring
8 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.11%) Replication
2 27 (8.68%) Clustering
3 12 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.61%) NHS
4 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.32%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.47%) Linux
2 34 (10.93%) Windows
3 31 (9.97%) Unix
4 19 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.89%) Solaris
6 8 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.29%) AIX
7 4 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle 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
1 119 (38.26%) Performance Tuning
2 96 (30.87%) High Availability
3 72 (23.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 56 (18.01%) Migration
5 40 (12.86%) Database Security
5 40 (12.86%) ITIL
6 33 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (10.29%) DevOps
7 32 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 32 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (9.00%) Database Tuning
9 27 (8.68%) CI/CD
9 27 (8.68%) Data Modelling
10 24 (7.72%) Performance Optimisation
11 21 (6.75%) Capacity Planning
11 21 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (6.11%) Database Migration
14 17 (5.47%) Change Management
14 17 (5.47%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (59.16%) SQL
2 31 (9.97%) PowerShell
3 30 (9.65%) Python
4 21 (6.75%) T-SQL
5 19 (6.11%) PL/SQL
6 12 (3.86%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.57%) Korn
8 6 (1.93%) Bash
8 6 (1.93%) Java
9 4 (1.29%) Groovy
9 4 (1.29%) Perl
10 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) C#
11 1 (0.32%) Cypher
11 1 (0.32%) RPG
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 168 (54.02%) Security Cleared
2 128 (41.16%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.43%) DV Cleared
4 29 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (5.47%) Oracle Certification
6 14 (4.50%) Degree
7 13 (4.18%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.86%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.86%) OCP
9 10 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.29%) MCITP
12 4 (1.29%) MCTS
13 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.50%) QA
2 12 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.61%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.29%) GDPR
4 4 (1.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (13.50%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (0.32%) ACF2
5 1 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 49 (15.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 40 (12.86%) Data Guard
3 17 (5.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 12 (3.86%) Ansible
5 11 (3.54%) SCOM
6 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (2.25%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.93%) Grafana
9 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 3 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.96%) Nagios
11 2 (0.64%) Foglight
11 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 167 (53.70%) Oracle
2 76 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.86%) Remedy
5 11 (3.54%) BMC
6 9 (2.89%) VMware
7 7 (2.25%) Sybase
8 4 (1.29%) Commvault
8 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.96%) Cerner
9 3 (0.96%) Databricks
9 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.64%) IBM
11 1 (0.32%) Adobe
11 1 (0.32%) EMC
11 1 (0.32%) Google
11 1 (0.32%) NetApp
11 1 (0.32%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.32%) Splunk
35 DBA jobs in England