DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 288 294
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 +32
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 88 56 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.45% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 33 63
10th Percentile £300 £345 £400
25th Percentile £363 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.02% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £688
90th Percentile £588 £600 £815
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,525 11,541 16,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.35% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,971 7,894 11,839
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £428 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 143 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +24.77% -23.24%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.97 £45.18
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.50 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.00% -20.00% -14.88%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DBA job vacancy trend in London

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in London

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Central London +1 19 £488 -7.14% 5
South London - 8 £300 -
West London -23 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 48 (54.55%) SQL
2 31 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (35.23%) SQL Server
3 30 (34.09%) Performance Tuning
4 25 (28.41%) Oracle
5 24 (27.27%) Azure
5 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 23 (26.14%) High Availability
7 22 (25.00%) Oracle Database
8 19 (21.59%) Migration
9 17 (19.32%) DevOps
9 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
10 16 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (14.77%) AWS
13 11 (12.50%) Data Migration
13 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (10.23%) Analytics
15 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
15 9 (10.23%) Python
15 9 (10.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
16 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
16 8 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (7.95%) Agile
17 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (7.95%) Data Analytics
17 7 (7.95%) Git
17 7 (7.95%) Linux

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.14%) Confluence
1 1 (1.14%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.55%) Serverless
6 3 (3.41%) SaaS
7 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.14%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.14%) GitHub
8 1 (1.14%) OCI
8 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (35.23%) SQL Server
2 22 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 16 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (7.95%) MongoDB
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (6.82%) Big Data
7 6 (6.82%) MySQL
8 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.41%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.27%) DB2
11 2 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (2.27%) Power BI
11 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.27%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Toad
General
1 15 (17.05%) Finance
2 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Publishing
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) OLE
2 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 4 (4.55%) Node.js
3 3 (3.41%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.41%) GeoJSON
3 3 (3.41%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.41%) Pandas
3 3 (3.41%) Polars
3 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.27%) JSON
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.14%) Kafka
5 1 (1.14%) pgvector
5 1 (1.14%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.14%) XML
5 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Clustering
2 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.68%) Replication
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.41%) Unix
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.09%) Performance Tuning
2 23 (26.14%) High Availability
3 19 (21.59%) Migration
4 17 (19.32%) DevOps
5 14 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (10.23%) Analytics
7 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
8 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.95%) Agile
9 7 (7.95%) Data Analytics
9 7 (7.95%) Patch Management
9 7 (7.95%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (7.95%) Statistics
10 6 (6.82%) Big Data Analytics
10 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.82%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.82%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (6.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (54.55%) SQL
2 9 (10.23%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.55%) C#
4 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.14%) Groovy
7 1 (1.14%) Java
7 1 (1.14%) PHP
7 1 (1.14%) RPG
7 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) MCITP
3 4 (4.55%) MCTS
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) Data Guard
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.14%) Foglight
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Oracle
2 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.27%) Sybase
4 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow