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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 293 297
Rank change year-on-year -36 +4 +29
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 84 55 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.45% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.49% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 33 66
10th Percentile £323 £345 £378
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £684
90th Percentile £588 £600 £815
England median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -

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 16,900 11,300 16,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.38% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,198 7,694 11,803
10th Percentile £356 £348 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 144 319
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.24 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.14 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% +10.55% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.00 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £60.50 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.88 £36.92
% change year-on-year +55.84% -21.78% -17.97%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -7 19 £500 -4.76% 2
South London - 6 £300 -
West London -28 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 46 (54.76%) SQL
2 32 (38.10%) SQL Server
3 30 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
4 27 (32.14%) Oracle
5 24 (28.57%) High Availability
5 24 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 23 (27.38%) Azure
6 23 (27.38%) Oracle Database
7 18 (21.43%) Migration
7 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
8 17 (20.24%) DevOps
9 16 (19.05%) Microsoft
10 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (11.90%) Data Migration
11 10 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (10.71%) Analytics
12 9 (10.71%) Data Modelling
12 9 (10.71%) Python
12 9 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (9.52%) AWS
13 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.52%) MongoDB
13 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (8.33%) Agile
14 7 (8.33%) Data Analytics
14 7 (8.33%) Git
14 7 (8.33%) Linux
14 7 (8.33%) MySQL

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 (1.19%) Confluence
1 1 (1.19%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.38%) Azure
2 10 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (9.52%) AWS
4 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 4 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.76%) Serverless
6 3 (3.57%) SaaS
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
7 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.19%) OCI
8 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
1 1 (1.19%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 23 (27.38%) Oracle Database
3 11 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (8.33%) MySQL
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (7.14%) Big Data
7 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.38%) DB2
11 2 (2.38%) Power BI
11 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 15 (17.86%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Banking
2 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.57%) Publishing
5 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) OLE
2 4 (4.76%) .NET
2 4 (4.76%) Node.js
3 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.57%) GeoJSON
3 3 (3.57%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (3.57%) Pandas
3 3 (3.57%) Polars
3 3 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) pgvector
5 1 (1.19%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.19%) XML
5 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Clustering
1 6 (7.14%) Replication
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (28.57%) High Availability
3 18 (21.43%) Migration
4 17 (20.24%) DevOps
5 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (11.90%) Data Migration
6 10 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (10.71%) Analytics
7 9 (10.71%) Data Modelling
8 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.33%) Agile
9 7 (8.33%) Data Analytics
9 7 (8.33%) Statistics
10 6 (7.14%) Big Data Analytics
10 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.14%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.14%) Database Security
10 6 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.14%) Visualisation
11 5 (5.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.76%) SQL
2 9 (10.71%) Python
3 7 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.76%) C#
4 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.19%) Groovy
6 1 (1.19%) Java
6 1 (1.19%) Perl
6 1 (1.19%) RPG
6 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) MCITP
3 4 (4.76%) MCTS
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) Data Guard
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.19%) Foglight
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (32.14%) Oracle
2 16 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.38%) Sybase
4 1 (1.19%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.19%) Databricks
4 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow