DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £529, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 313 259
Rank change year-on-year -58 -54 +54
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 77 51 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.38% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.41% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 77
10th Percentile £346 £375 £328
25th Percentile £419 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +3.61% +1.34%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile - £648 £693
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

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 18,782 12,397 15,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.74% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,136 8,290 10,213
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
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 £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 204 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.54 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -15.61% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.40 £75.13
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +2.62%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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
South London - 14 £530 -
Central London -20 8 £501 -21.06% 5
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 40 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (50.65%) SC Cleared
3 37 (48.05%) High Availability
4 36 (46.75%) SQL
5 34 (44.16%) Performance Tuning
6 32 (41.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (37.66%) AWS
7 29 (37.66%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (35.06%) SQL Server
9 22 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (28.57%) Migration
10 21 (27.27%) Oracle
11 19 (24.68%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (23.38%) Data Modelling
13 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (20.78%) Oracle Database
13 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
14 15 (19.48%) MySQL
14 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
14 15 (19.48%) Terraform
15 14 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (18.18%) AWS Certification
15 14 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
16 13 (16.88%) AWS KMS
16 13 (16.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (15.58%) Incident Management
18 11 (14.29%) Change Management
18 11 (14.29%) Linux
19 10 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation

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 8 (10.39%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.60%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.30%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle EBS
1 8 (10.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (16.88%) AWS KMS
3 13 (16.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (11.69%) Azure
6 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) OCI
8 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.30%) PaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (35.06%) SQL Server
3 22 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (24.68%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (20.78%) Oracle Database
6 15 (19.48%) MySQL
7 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
7 10 (12.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (11.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (10.39%) Redis
9 8 (10.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (7.79%) Power BI
11 3 (3.90%) OLTP
11 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (3.90%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.60%) Db2
12 2 (2.60%) OLAP
12 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 10g
12 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 6 (7.79%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) Flyway
4 2 (2.60%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.30%) Toad
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.18%) Finance
4 11 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) International Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.48%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) OLE
3 2 (2.60%) Middleware
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.30%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (1.30%) Spring
4 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.30%) XML
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Replication
2 12 (15.58%) Clustering
2 12 (15.58%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (12.99%) Windows
3 6 (7.79%) Unix
4 4 (5.19%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.30%) AIX
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.05%) High Availability
2 34 (44.16%) Performance Tuning
3 32 (41.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (28.57%) Migration
5 18 (23.38%) Data Modelling
6 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
8 14 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (15.58%) Incident Management
10 11 (14.29%) Change Management
11 10 (12.99%) Validation
12 9 (11.69%) Data Reconciliation
12 9 (11.69%) Database Migration
12 9 (11.69%) DevOps
12 9 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (11.69%) Secrets Management
13 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (9.09%) Database Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) SQL
2 15 (19.48%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.39%) Python
4 6 (7.79%) Perl
5 5 (6.49%) Java
6 4 (5.19%) Groovy
6 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) Korn
8 1 (1.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 40 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (50.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.30%) Degree
8 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (5.19%) Docker
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.30%) ACF2
6 1 (1.30%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (7.79%) Data Guard
4 5 (6.49%) SCOM
5 4 (5.19%) Grafana
5 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.90%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.60%) Ansible
7 2 (2.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (1.30%) Nagios
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Oracle
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.69%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) BMC
3 8 (10.39%) Remedy
4 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.19%) Commvault
6 2 (2.60%) Sybase
7 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.30%) RedGate
7 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds