Senior DBA Contracts in England

Senior Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 532 633
Rank change year-on-year +54 +101 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 7 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.027% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.029% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £355 - £450
25th Percentile £419 £363 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £688 £609
90th Percentile £595 - £640
UK median daily rate £438 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -27.08% +12.94% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £40.00
75th Percentile £65.62 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior DBA in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior DBA in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior 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 Senior DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East +49 4 - - 20
London +33 1 £600 -11.11% 7
Senior DBA
UK

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (57.14%) Oracle
3 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Database Security
5 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Clustering
5 2 (28.57%) SLA
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Replication
6 1 (14.29%) Military
6 1 (14.29%) Strategic Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) RedGate
6 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
6 1 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Military
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Database Security
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) RedGate