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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 269 285
Rank change year-on-year -60 +16 +92
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 62 84 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.62% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.67% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 73
10th Percentile £300 £366 £384
25th Percentile £481 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -14.53% +20.00%
75th Percentile £573 £619 £650
90th Percentile £609 £719 £815
England median daily rate £492 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -1.60% -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 14,122 12,612 17,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.62% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,417 8,123 12,447
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £787
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 140 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.98 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.02 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.75 £36.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +27.83% -17.27%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.90
England median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.68%

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 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 16 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 -6 10 £500 -11.11% 2
South London - 6 £300 - 2
West London -20 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 29 (46.77%) SQL
2 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
3 22 (35.48%) SC Cleared
4 21 (33.87%) Azure
5 19 (30.65%) Oracle
6 18 (29.03%) Oracle Database
7 17 (27.42%) AWS
8 16 (25.81%) SQL Server
9 15 (24.19%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (19.35%) Migration
13 10 (16.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (16.13%) High Availability
13 10 (16.13%) Serverless
14 9 (14.52%) Data Modelling
14 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
14 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (12.90%) Data Migration
15 8 (12.90%) DevOps
15 8 (12.90%) Linux
15 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
15 8 (12.90%) Node.js
15 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
15 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
16 7 (11.29%) Patch Management
16 7 (11.29%) PL/SQL
16 7 (11.29%) Python
16 7 (11.29%) SQL Server Reporting 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 1 (1.61%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 10 (16.13%) Serverless
4 6 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle Database
2 16 (25.81%) SQL Server
3 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (11.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (6.45%) DynamoDB
9 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
9 4 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (4.84%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (4.84%) Power BI
11 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.61%) DB2
11 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.61%) SQLPlus
11 1 (1.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Banking
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.61%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) Node.js
2 4 (6.45%) .NET
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.61%) pgvector
4 1 (1.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.68%) Replication
3 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (19.35%) Migration
4 10 (16.13%) High Availability
5 9 (14.52%) Data Modelling
5 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.90%) Data Migration
6 8 (12.90%) DevOps
6 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
7 7 (11.29%) Patch Management
8 5 (8.06%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
8 5 (8.06%) Microservices
8 5 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (6.45%) Database Security
9 4 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (6.45%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) PL/SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) C#
3 4 (6.45%) Java
4 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (43.55%) Security Cleared
2 22 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Data Guard
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.61%) Foglight
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Oracle
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.61%) Databricks
3 1 (1.61%) Sybase