DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 320 264
Rank change year-on-year -56 -56 +49
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 83 51 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.38% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.41% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 34 74
10th Percentile £365 £386 £320
25th Percentile £463 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +4.30% +1.18%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £628
90th Percentile - £675 £696
England median daily rate £525 £500 £496
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.76% +4.47%

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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
South London - 15 £530 -
Central London -23 7 £501 -23.00% 8
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Security Cleared60.2%50
2SC Cleared59.0%49
3Performance Tuning50.6%42
3SQL50.6%42
5Disaster Recovery48.2%40
6High Availability47.0%39
7AWS45.8%38
8PostgreSQL44.6%37
9SQL Server34.9%29
10Amazon Aurora33.7%28
11Amazon RDS30.1%25
12Data Modelling27.7%23
13Migration26.5%22
14Oracle25.3%21
15CI/CD24.1%20
15Terraform24.1%20
17Infrastructure as Code21.7%18
17Root Cause Analysis21.7%18
17Stakeholder Management21.7%18
20MySQL20.5%17
21Amazon CloudWatch19.3%16
21AWS Certification19.3%16
21PowerShell19.3%16
21Validation19.3%16
25AWS CloudFormation18.1%15
25AWS KMS18.1%15
25Oracle Database18.1%15
25Virtual Private Cloud18.1%15
29Data Reconciliation16.9%14
30Incident Management15.7%13

DBA Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Administrator48.2%40
2SQL DBA25.3%21
3Senior DBA21.7%18
4Oracle DBA18.1%15
4PostgreSQL DBA18.1%15
6AWS Administrator12.0%10
7SC Cleared DBA8.4%7
8MySQL DBA6.0%5
8SQL Server DBA6.0%5
10Data Modeller4.8%4
10DevOps Engineer4.8%4
12Senior SQL DBA3.6%3
13Oracle Specialist2.4%2
13Sybase DBA2.4%2
15DB2 DBA1.2%1
15DV Cleared DBA1.2%1
15Oracle Applications DBA1.2%1
15Oracle Database Engineer1.2%1
15Payments Architect1.2%1
15Production DBA1.2%1
38 DBA jobs in London