DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 322 261
Rank change year-on-year -28 -61 +40
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 90 48 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.36% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.38% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 36 80
10th Percentile £350 £375 £335
25th Percentile £363 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £499 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.91% -1.78%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £628
90th Percentile £577 £651 £700
England median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% +5.04%

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 18,774 12,520 15,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,428 10,485
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -9 16 £468 -26.26%
South London - 13 £550 - 2
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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 52 (57.78%) SQL
2 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
3 41 (45.56%) SC Cleared
4 38 (42.22%) Performance Tuning
5 37 (41.11%) High Availability
5 37 (41.11%) SQL Server
6 34 (37.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 27 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (27.78%) AWS
9 23 (25.56%) Migration
10 20 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
11 19 (21.11%) Oracle
12 18 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (18.89%) Azure
13 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
14 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (16.67%) MySQL
15 15 (16.67%) Terraform
16 14 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (15.56%) DevOps
16 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
16 14 (15.56%) Oracle Database
16 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
16 14 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
16 14 (15.56%) Windows
17 13 (14.44%) AWS Certification
17 13 (14.44%) AWS KMS
17 13 (14.44%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 17 (18.89%) Azure
3 14 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (14.44%) AWS KMS
4 13 (14.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.33%) SaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.22%) PaaS
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub
10 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (41.11%) SQL Server
2 27 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (16.67%) MySQL
6 14 (15.56%) Oracle Database
7 11 (12.22%) MongoDB
8 9 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (8.89%) Redis
9 8 (8.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (6.67%) Big Data
10 6 (6.67%) Power BI
11 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
13 2 (2.22%) OLTP
13 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) JIRA
2 6 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) Flyway
5 1 (1.11%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.11%) Toad
General
1 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Publishing
7 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) Terraform
2 6 (6.67%) OLE
3 3 (3.33%) GeoJSON
3 3 (3.33%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.33%) Pandas
3 3 (3.33%) Polars
3 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.22%) JSON
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.11%) Kafka
5 1 (1.11%) Node.js
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Streams
5 1 (1.11%) pgvector
5 1 (1.11%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.11%) Spring
5 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.11%) XML
5 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Replication
2 14 (15.56%) Clustering
3 10 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.56%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Linux
3 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (3.33%) Unix
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.11%) AIX
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Performance Tuning
2 37 (41.11%) High Availability
3 34 (37.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (25.56%) Migration
5 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (15.56%) DevOps
8 14 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (11.11%) Change Management
9 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
9 10 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (11.11%) Validation
10 9 (10.00%) Business Continuity
10 9 (10.00%) Data Reconciliation
10 9 (10.00%) Secrets Management
11 7 (7.78%) Database Migration
11 7 (7.78%) Database Optimisation
11 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.78%) SQL
2 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
3 11 (12.22%) Python
4 5 (5.56%) Java
5 4 (4.44%) Groovy
5 4 (4.44%) Perl
5 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) Korn
8 1 (1.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 41 (45.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.44%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.33%) MCITP
6 3 (3.33%) MCTS
6 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.11%) Degree
8 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (4.44%) Docker
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (5.56%) Data Guard
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (5.56%) SCOM
3 4 (4.44%) Grafana
3 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.11%) Nagios
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 19 (21.11%) Oracle
2 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.00%) VMware
4 8 (8.89%) BMC
4 8 (8.89%) Remedy
5 4 (4.44%) Commvault
5 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) RedGate
6 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.11%) Sybase