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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 302 281
Rank change year-on-year -40 -21 +48
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 77 48 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.38% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 72
10th Percentile £300 £375 £353
25th Percentile £355 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £688
90th Percentile £588 £675 £815
England median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.25% -

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 17,759 11,801 16,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.46% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,738 7,991 11,887
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £682
90th Percentile £763 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 176 321
10th Percentile £18.61 £19.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.94 £20.02
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% +21.62% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.56 £46.48
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.38 £67.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.22% -9.47%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 15 £475 -20.83% 2
South London - 5 £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 25 June 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 41 (53.25%) SQL
2 31 (40.26%) Performance Tuning
3 30 (38.96%) Oracle
4 29 (37.66%) SQL Server
5 25 (32.47%) Oracle Database
6 24 (31.17%) High Availability
7 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
8 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
9 17 (22.08%) Migration
10 15 (19.48%) Azure
11 14 (18.18%) DevOps
11 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
12 13 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (15.58%) AWS
14 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (12.99%) Data Migration
15 10 (12.99%) Python
16 9 (11.69%) Analytics
17 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (10.39%) Linux
17 8 (10.39%) MySQL
17 8 (10.39%) PL/SQL
18 7 (9.09%) Data Analytics
18 7 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
19 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
19 6 (7.79%) Big Data
19 6 (7.79%) Big Data Analytics
19 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
19 6 (7.79%) Database Security

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 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.48%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) AWS
3 5 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.90%) SaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) PaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.30%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) OCI
7 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.30%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Firewall
1 1 (1.30%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.66%) SQL Server
2 25 (32.47%) Oracle Database
3 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.39%) MySQL
5 6 (7.79%) Big Data
5 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (5.19%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.90%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.60%) Power BI
9 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.60%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) GitLab
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Finance
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Banking
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Publishing
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) International Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) OLE
2 3 (3.90%) GeoJSON
2 3 (3.90%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (3.90%) Pandas
2 3 (3.90%) Polars
2 3 (3.90%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.60%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) Node.js
4 1 (1.30%) pgvector
4 1 (1.30%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.30%) XML
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Clustering
1 6 (7.79%) Replication
2 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.60%) NHS
3 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
2 6 (7.79%) Windows
3 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Unix
5 1 (1.30%) AIX
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (31.17%) High Availability
3 17 (22.08%) Migration
4 14 (18.18%) DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.99%) Data Migration
8 9 (11.69%) Analytics
9 7 (9.09%) Data Analytics
9 7 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.79%) Big Data Analytics
10 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.79%) Database Security
10 6 (7.79%) Statistics
11 5 (6.49%) Agile
11 5 (6.49%) CI/CD
11 5 (6.49%) Data Modelling
11 5 (6.49%) Database Tuning
11 5 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 5 (6.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) SQL
2 10 (12.99%) Python
3 8 (10.39%) PL/SQL
4 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.49%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
6 1 (1.30%) RPG
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) MCITP
3 4 (5.19%) MCTS
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) Ansible
2 4 (5.19%) Data Guard
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Foglight
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (38.96%) Oracle
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.60%) Sybase
4 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.30%) Databricks
4 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow