DBA Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Database Administrator
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Gloucester is £606, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 2.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £606 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 115 92 99
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.94% 92.00% 97.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 71 71
10th Percentile £220 £133 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £643 £694
90th Percentile £729 £734 £718
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £40.79 £20.88 £20.00
25th Percentile - £21.49 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +122.65% -16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £54.98 £24.81 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.54 £25.60 £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -50.86% +38.55% -19.82%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

DBA job vacancy trend in Gloucester

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Gloucester

DBA Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 13 January 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 Gloucester region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) SQL

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle