DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 246 302
Rank change year-on-year -74 +56 +135
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 48 129 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.88% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 68 86
10th Percentile £375 £313 £380
25th Percentile £438 £413 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.71% -9.05%
75th Percentile £627 £626 £588
90th Percentile £700 £691 £644
England median daily rate £484 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.82% +2.63% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,810 14,656 18,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.89% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,496 9,478 13,749
10th Percentile £335 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £793
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 155 228
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +17.19%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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
Central London -2 9 £650 +26.00% 4
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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 27 (56.25%) SQL
2 21 (43.75%) Azure
3 17 (35.42%) SQL Server
4 16 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 12 (25.00%) Migration
5 12 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 11 (22.92%) NoSQL
6 11 (22.92%) Oracle
6 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
7 10 (20.83%) AWS
7 10 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (20.83%) Serverless
8 8 (16.67%) Linux
8 8 (16.67%) Node.js
8 8 (16.67%) Oracle Database
8 8 (16.67%) Python
9 7 (14.58%) Analytics
9 7 (14.58%) ETL
9 7 (14.58%) Oracle Exadata
9 7 (14.58%) Power BI
9 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
10 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (12.50%) High Availability
10 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 6 (12.50%) MongoDB

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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) Serverless
3 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (22.92%) NoSQL
4 8 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 7 (14.58%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (14.58%) Power BI
6 6 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
7 5 (10.42%) Data Lake
7 5 (10.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
9 3 (6.25%) DB2
9 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
9 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
10 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (2.08%) MySQL
11 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) ERwin
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Node.js
2 4 (8.33%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (4.17%) pgvector
3 2 (4.17%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Replication
3 5 (10.42%) Clustering
4 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.17%) AIX
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) VMS
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 12 (25.00%) Migration
3 10 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (14.58%) Analytics
4 7 (14.58%) ETL
5 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (12.50%) High Availability
5 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (10.42%) Data Architecture
6 5 (10.42%) Data Protection
6 5 (10.42%) Data Strategy
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 4 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (8.33%) Data Management
7 4 (8.33%) Database Security
7 4 (8.33%) E-Commerce
7 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.33%) Microservices
7 4 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (16.67%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.33%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) C#
4 4 (8.33%) Java
5 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.17%) AWK
6 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.17%) sed
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.17%) GPFS
2 2 (4.17%) NFS
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Data Guard
2 4 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.08%) Delphix
4 1 (2.08%) IBM