Senior SQL DBA Contract Job Trends in England

Senior SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator daily rate in England is £304, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 483 552
Rank change year-on-year -65 +69 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.008% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.008% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £285 - -
25th Percentile £291 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £304 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.38% - -
75th Percentile £313 - -
90th Percentile £317 - -
UK median daily rate £304 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -49.38% +2.13% +20.51%

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 31,053 24,121 35,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 93.07% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,752 15,028 23,675
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 713 2,112
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.92 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.63
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -2.51%

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior SQL DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior SQL DBA job vacancy trend in England

Senior SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in England

Senior SQL DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in England

Senior SQL 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 SQL DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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 -34 2 £304 -49.38%
Senior SQL DBA
UK

Senior SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Senior SQL 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 Senior SQL DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

Senior SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase