DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 321 260
Rank change year-on-year -36 -61 +64
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 76 50 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.37% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.40% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 88
10th Percentile £350 £375 £339
25th Percentile £363 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +8.64%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £656
90th Percentile £588 £701 £725
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 18,473 12,646 15,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.01% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,088 8,560 11,001
10th Percentile £363 £328 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 198 220
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -8.12% -14.28%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.38 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 July 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 29 July 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 -3 18 £488 -21.12% 4
South London - 3 £600 -
West London -17 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 44 (57.89%) SQL
2 33 (43.42%) SQL Server
3 32 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
4 26 (34.21%) High Availability
5 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
6 21 (27.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (25.00%) Oracle
7 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
8 18 (23.68%) Migration
9 16 (21.05%) Azure
10 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
11 13 (17.11%) Oracle Database
12 12 (15.79%) DevOps
12 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
13 11 (14.47%) Windows
14 10 (13.16%) AWS
14 10 (13.16%) Python
15 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
15 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
15 9 (11.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (10.53%) Analytics
16 8 (10.53%) MySQL
16 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (9.21%) Change Management
17 7 (9.21%) Incident Management
17 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
18 6 (7.89%) Big Data
18 6 (7.89%) Big Data Analytics
18 6 (7.89%) CI/CD

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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.32%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (6.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 10 (13.16%) AWS
3 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.95%) SaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) PaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.32%) OCI
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (43.42%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.11%) Oracle Database
3 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (11.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (10.53%) MySQL
5 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (7.89%) Big Data
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (5.26%) Power BI
9 3 (3.95%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.63%) Db2
10 2 (2.63%) OLTP
10 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) Git
3 2 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) Flyway
4 1 (1.32%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.32%) Toad
General
1 15 (19.74%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Publishing
7 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) International Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) OLE
2 3 (3.95%) GeoJSON
2 3 (3.95%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.95%) Pandas
2 3 (3.95%) Polars
2 3 (3.95%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.63%) JSON
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.32%) .NET
4 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.32%) Kafka
4 1 (1.32%) Node.js
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (1.32%) pgvector
4 1 (1.32%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.32%) Spring
4 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.32%) XML
4 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Clustering
2 10 (13.16%) Replication
3 7 (9.21%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Windows
2 6 (7.89%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.32%) AIX
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (34.21%) High Availability
3 21 (27.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (23.68%) Migration
5 12 (15.79%) DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.53%) Analytics
8 7 (9.21%) Change Management
8 7 (9.21%) Incident Management
8 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (7.89%) Big Data Analytics
9 6 (7.89%) CI/CD
9 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.89%) Data Analytics
9 6 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.58%) Agile
10 5 (6.58%) Database Migration
10 5 (6.58%) Database Optimisation
10 5 (6.58%) Database Security
11 4 (5.26%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.89%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) Python
3 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.58%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.95%) Java
7 2 (2.63%) Groovy
7 2 (2.63%) Perl
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) Korn
8 1 (1.32%) RPG
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.26%) MCITP
3 4 (5.26%) MCTS
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.63%) Docker
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (6.58%) Data Guard
2 5 (6.58%) Terraform
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (5.26%) SCOM
4 3 (3.95%) Ansible
5 2 (2.63%) Grafana
5 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Nagios
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Oracle
2 14 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) VMware
4 5 (6.58%) BMC
4 5 (6.58%) Remedy
5 4 (5.26%) Commvault
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) Sybase