DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 423 294
Rank change year-on-year +25 -129 +72
Contract DBA jobs 263 111 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.38% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.42% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 71 138
10th Percentile £400 £363 £354
25th Percentile £429 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £577 £584 £625
90th Percentile £679 £675 £657
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £481
% change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £37.65 £30.65 -
25th Percentile £39.00 £37.63 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.13 -
90th Percentile - £72.55 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
3 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in England matching a recognised job title 42,681 26,589 28,764
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.63% 91.23% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,106 17,070 17,549
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,921 1,561 1,092
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.05 £15.10
25th Percentile £19.48 £17.79 £21.05
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -38.77% -10.47%
75th Percentile £68.00 £51.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -32.93% -16.67%

DBA Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract DBA job postings 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 DBA jobs in England over the 6 months to 3 November 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 DBA jobs within the England region over the 6 months to 3 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +2 87 £480 +6.67% 4
London -42 86 £525 - 19
North West +23 69 £479 +6.44% 2
South East -39 35 £550 +10.00% 21
South West -23 20 £750 +22.45% 4
Yorkshire -29 16 £454 +24.38%
Midlands -49 15 £447 +22.53% 6
West Midlands -46 10 £447 +22.47% 3
East of England -17 8 £425 -10.53%
East Midlands -6 5 £800 - 3
North East - 3 £625 - 2
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DBA Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, DBA contract job ads cited 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 DBA job ads across the England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Security Cleared63.5%167
2SQL62.7%165
3Oracle55.1%145
4SQL Server49.4%130
5Performance Tuning48.3%127
6SC Cleared47.9%126
7PostgreSQL35.4%93
8High Availability31.6%83
9Disaster Recovery30.8%81
10Microsoft30.0%79
11Oracle Database29.3%77
12AWS28.1%74
13MySQL25.1%66
14Azure22.1%58
15Migration17.9%47
16Linux17.1%45
17DV Cleared16.3%43
18Database Security16.0%42
19PowerShell15.6%41
20Data Guard15.2%40
21Root Cause Analysis14.1%37
22Microsoft Certification13.7%36
22Oracle RAC13.7%36
22Windows13.7%36
25Stakeholder Management13.3%35
26CI/CD12.9%34
27Amazon Aurora12.5%33
27Amazon RDS12.5%33
27ITIL12.5%33
27Oracle RMAN12.5%33

DBA Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Administrator43.3%114
2SQL DBA35.4%93
3Oracle DBA33.8%89
4Senior DBA12.5%33
5SC Cleared DBA11.4%30
6PostgreSQL DBA6.8%18
7DV Cleared DBA6.1%16
8SQL Server DBA5.7%15
9AWS Administrator4.6%12
10Senior Oracle DBA3.8%10
11Oracle Specialist2.7%7
12MySQL DBA2.3%6
12Sybase DBA2.3%6
14Support Specialist1.9%5
15Data Modeller1.5%4
15Data Warehouse Developer1.5%4
15DevOps Engineer1.5%4
18Senior SQL DBA1.1%3
18SQL Developer1.1%3
20DB2 DBA0.8%2
48 DBA jobs in England