DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 316 254
Rank change year-on-year -45 -62 +54
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 89 49 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.36% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.39% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 38 78
10th Percentile £350 £375 £330
25th Percentile £363 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £647
90th Percentile £588 £675 £708
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -3.80%

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 18,760 12,713 15,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,229 8,604 10,759
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.66%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -14 18 £488 -14.70% 1
South London - 8 £550 - 2
West London -19 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 56 (62.92%) SQL
2 40 (44.94%) SQL Server
3 39 (43.82%) Performance Tuning
4 36 (40.45%) Security Cleared
5 34 (38.20%) High Availability
6 32 (35.96%) SC Cleared
7 30 (33.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (25.84%) Migration
9 20 (22.47%) Oracle
10 19 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (19.10%) AWS
11 17 (19.10%) Data Modelling
12 16 (17.98%) Azure
13 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
14 14 (15.73%) MySQL
14 14 (15.73%) Oracle Database
15 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
15 13 (14.61%) Windows
16 12 (13.48%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (13.48%) DevOps
16 12 (13.48%) Terraform
17 11 (12.36%) Active Directory
17 11 (12.36%) MongoDB
17 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
17 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
18 10 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 10 (11.24%) Python
18 10 (11.24%) SQL Server Integration Services

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 6 (6.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) AWS
2 16 (17.98%) Azure
3 10 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (10.11%) AWS KMS
4 9 (10.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.37%) SaaS
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.25%) PaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.12%) OCI
10 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (44.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (15.73%) MySQL
3 14 (15.73%) Oracle Database
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (12.36%) MongoDB
6 10 (11.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (6.74%) Big Data
9 6 (6.74%) Power BI
9 6 (6.74%) Redis
10 5 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.37%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.37%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.25%) OLTP
12 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) Flyway
4 1 (1.12%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.12%) Toad
General
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Finance
3 11 (12.36%) Banking
4 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Publishing
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) International Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) OLE
2 3 (3.37%) GeoJSON
2 3 (3.37%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.37%) Pandas
2 3 (3.37%) Polars
2 3 (3.37%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.25%) JSON
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.12%) Kafka
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (1.12%) pgvector
4 1 (1.12%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.12%) Spring
4 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.12%) XML
4 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Replication
2 14 (15.73%) Clustering
3 9 (10.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Windows
2 6 (6.74%) Linux
3 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Unix
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.12%) AIX
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) Performance Tuning
2 34 (38.20%) High Availability
3 30 (33.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (25.84%) Migration
5 17 (19.10%) Data Modelling
6 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.48%) DevOps
8 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.11%) Change Management
10 9 (10.11%) Incident Management
10 9 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (8.99%) Analytics
11 8 (8.99%) Validation
12 7 (7.87%) Business Continuity
12 7 (7.87%) Data Reconciliation
12 7 (7.87%) Database Migration
12 7 (7.87%) Secrets Management
13 6 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 56 (62.92%) SQL
2 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.24%) Python
4 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.49%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.49%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.37%) Java
6 2 (2.25%) Groovy
6 2 (2.25%) Perl
7 1 (1.12%) Bash
7 1 (1.12%) C#
7 1 (1.12%) Korn
7 1 (1.12%) RPG
7 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (40.45%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.49%) MCITP
5 4 (4.49%) MCTS
5 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.62%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (12.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.62%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.25%) Docker
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Terraform
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (5.62%) Data Guard
3 5 (5.62%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (4.49%) SCOM
5 3 (3.37%) Ansible
6 2 (2.25%) Grafana
6 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Oracle
2 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.99%) VMware
4 7 (7.87%) BMC
4 7 (7.87%) Remedy
5 4 (4.49%) Commvault
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase