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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 284 288
Rank change year-on-year -44 +4 +59
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 84 61 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.52% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 26 69
10th Percentile £306 £366 £400
25th Percentile £363 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -14.53% +17.00%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £675
90th Percentile £588 £752 £822
England median daily rate £445 £450 £533
% change year-on-year -1.11% -15.57% +6.60%

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 15,647 11,822 16,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.64% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,492 8,101 12,161
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 150 341
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -21.66%
75th Percentile £60.50 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
% change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -2 18 £488 -13.33% 2
South London - 7 £300 - 1
West London -22 1 £550 -26.67%
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 49 (58.33%) SQL
2 34 (40.48%) Security Cleared
3 31 (36.90%) SQL Server
4 28 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 27 (32.14%) Azure
5 27 (32.14%) SC Cleared
6 20 (23.81%) High Availability
7 19 (22.62%) Oracle
8 16 (19.05%) Migration
8 16 (19.05%) Oracle Database
9 15 (17.86%) DevOps
9 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
10 14 (16.67%) AWS
10 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (15.48%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (11.90%) Data Migration
14 9 (10.71%) Analytics
14 9 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 8 (9.52%) Linux
15 8 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
15 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (8.33%) Data Analytics
16 7 (8.33%) Data Protection
16 7 (8.33%) Patch Management
16 7 (8.33%) Python
16 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (8.33%) Statistics

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%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 10 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (7.14%) Serverless
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.57%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.19%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) SQL Server
2 16 (19.05%) Oracle Database
3 14 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.14%) Big Data
7 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (5.95%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (4.76%) MySQL
10 3 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.57%) Power BI
11 2 (2.38%) DB2
11 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.38%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) Toad
General
1 14 (16.67%) Finance
2 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Publishing
7 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) .NET
1 4 (4.76%) Node.js
1 4 (4.76%) OLE
2 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 3 (3.57%) GeoJSON
2 3 (3.57%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.57%) Pandas
2 3 (3.57%) Polars
2 3 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.19%) JSON
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.19%) pgvector
3 1 (1.19%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Clustering
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.76%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 7 (8.33%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 20 (23.81%) High Availability
3 16 (19.05%) Migration
4 15 (17.86%) DevOps
5 13 (15.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.90%) Data Migration
8 9 (10.71%) Analytics
9 8 (9.52%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (8.33%) Data Analytics
10 7 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.33%) Patch Management
10 7 (8.33%) Statistics
11 6 (7.14%) Big Data Analytics
11 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (5.95%) Database Security
12 5 (5.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 49 (58.33%) SQL
2 7 (8.33%) Python
3 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.76%) C#
4 4 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.19%) Perl
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.14%) 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 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.19%) Foglight
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Oracle
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.38%) Sybase
4 1 (1.19%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.19%) Databricks