DBA Contracts in Lancashire

Database Administrator
North West > Lancashire

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Lancashire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +1
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.52% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.07% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 £388 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £445 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +4.71% -5.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 186 187 261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 86.18% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 70 135
10th Percentile £153 £200 £282
25th Percentile £407 £325 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £631 £627
90th Percentile £647 £741 £695
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 59 60
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.58 £20.55
25th Percentile £25.84 £21.42 £25.75
Median hourly rate £37.29 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -5.12% +12.43%
75th Percentile £70.16 £47.09 £47.21
90th Percentile £75.79 £76.75 £57.95
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £29.65
% change year-on-year -22.86% +18.04% +23.03%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Lancashire

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in Lancashire

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Lancashire

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Blackpool - 3 £450 - 2
DBA
North West

DBA Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, 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 Lancashire region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform