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 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 280 289
Rank change year-on-year -49 +9 +83
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 65 77 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.61% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 71
10th Percentile £300 £363 £400
25th Percentile £475 £419 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +20.51%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £658
90th Percentile £634 £748 £815
England median daily rate £475 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.37% +10.10%

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 14,713 12,561 17,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.61% 93.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,860 8,207 12,367
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 144 335
10th Percentile £18.16 £21.22 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £62.56 £53.75 £48.03
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £65.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%

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 28 February 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 28 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
Central London +4 11 £500 -11.11% 7
South London - 6 £300 -
West London -21 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
3 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
4 19 (29.23%) Azure
4 19 (29.23%) Oracle
5 17 (26.15%) AWS
5 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (26.15%) SQL Server
6 16 (24.62%) Oracle Database
7 14 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (16.92%) High Availability
10 10 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 10 (15.38%) Migration
10 10 (15.38%) Serverless
11 9 (13.85%) DevOps
11 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
11 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
11 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.31%) Data Migration
12 8 (12.31%) Linux
12 8 (12.31%) Node.js
12 8 (12.31%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
13 7 (10.77%) Patch Management
13 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database

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 (1.54%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) AWS
3 10 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 10 (15.38%) Serverless
4 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) SQL Server
2 16 (24.62%) Oracle Database
3 14 (21.54%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (6.15%) DynamoDB
10 3 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (4.62%) Power BI
11 2 (3.08%) DB2
11 2 (3.08%) MySQL
11 2 (3.08%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Toad
General
1 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Banking
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.54%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Node.js
2 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.54%) pgvector
5 1 (1.54%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Clustering
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (16.92%) High Availability
4 10 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 10 (15.38%) Migration
5 9 (13.85%) DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.31%) Data Migration
6 8 (12.31%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (10.77%) Data Protection
7 7 (10.77%) Patch Management
8 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 5 (7.69%) Microservices
8 5 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (6.15%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (6.15%) Database Security
9 4 (6.15%) E-Commerce
9 4 (6.15%) Statistics
9 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
2 6 (9.23%) Python
3 4 (6.15%) C#
3 4 (6.15%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) PHP
6 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) GDPR
1 2 (3.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.54%) Foglight
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Oracle
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.54%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.54%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Sybase