DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 268 304
Rank change year-on-year -52 +36 +125
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 54 125 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.84% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 61 85
10th Percentile £368 £350 £381
25th Percentile £428 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £507 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +5.56% -4.95%
75th Percentile £606 £629 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £645
England median daily rate £468 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.50% +5.26% -4.52%

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 13,090 14,839 18,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.65% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,692 9,606 13,396
10th Percentile £333 £339 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 161 216
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.76% +3.26%
75th Percentile £51.48 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.42 £81.18 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.32 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% -13.33% +38.46%

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 29 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 29 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 +3 9 £650 +28.28% 4
South London - 2 £413 - 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 26 (48.15%) SQL
2 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 17 (31.48%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
5 15 (27.78%) AWS
5 15 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (27.78%) SQL Server
6 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
7 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
7 13 (24.07%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (22.22%) NoSQL
8 12 (22.22%) Oracle
9 11 (20.37%) Migration
9 11 (20.37%) Serverless
10 9 (16.67%) Node.js
10 9 (16.67%) Oracle Database
11 8 (14.81%) Linux
11 8 (14.81%) Python
12 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
12 7 (12.96%) Oracle Exadata
13 6 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (11.11%) Data Protection
13 6 (11.11%) DevOps
13 6 (11.11%) ETL
13 6 (11.11%) High Availability
13 6 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (9.26%) .NET
14 5 (9.26%) .NET Core

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 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 11 (20.37%) Serverless
4 6 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Functions
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 9 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
5 7 (12.96%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
7 4 (7.41%) Power BI
7 4 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.56%) DB2
8 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.85%) Metadata
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) ERwin
2 1 (1.85%) Toad
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) Node.js
2 5 (9.26%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) .NET Core
2 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (3.70%) pgvector
4 2 (3.70%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (11.11%) Replication
3 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.26%) Clustering
4 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.70%) AIX
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) VMS
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
2 13 (24.07%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (20.37%) Migration
4 6 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 6 (11.11%) DevOps
4 6 (11.11%) ETL
4 6 (11.11%) High Availability
4 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
5 5 (9.26%) Microservices
5 5 (9.26%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
6 4 (7.41%) Agile
6 4 (7.41%) Analytics
6 4 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (7.41%) Data Migration
6 4 (7.41%) Database Security
6 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) C#
4 4 (7.41%) Bash
4 4 (7.41%) Java
5 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.70%) AWK
6 2 (3.70%) sed
7 1 (1.85%) Perl
7 1 (1.85%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.70%) GPFS
2 2 (3.70%) NFS
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Data Guard
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.85%) Delphix
3 1 (1.85%) IBM