DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 259 298
Rank change year-on-year -51 +39 +124
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 52 126 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.77% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.82% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 74 96
10th Percentile £375 £320 £381
25th Percentile £420 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +3.17% -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £602
90th Percentile £644 £696 £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -6.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,462 15,317 20,545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.03% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,353 10,248 14,977
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 181 229
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £51.13 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £76.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 0 9 £618 +17.71% 3
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 33 (63.46%) SQL
2 20 (38.46%) Oracle
2 20 (38.46%) Azure
3 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
4 17 (32.69%) Migration
4 17 (32.69%) Oracle Database
5 16 (30.77%) Finance
6 14 (26.92%) Data Modelling
7 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (23.08%) High Availability
9 11 (21.15%) AWS
9 11 (21.15%) Oracle RAC
9 11 (21.15%) Linux
10 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
11 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
11 9 (17.31%) NoSQL
11 9 (17.31%) Database Migration
12 8 (15.38%) Data Guard
12 8 (15.38%) Database Security
12 8 (15.38%) Analytics
12 8 (15.38%) Banking
12 8 (15.38%) PL/SQL
12 8 (15.38%) ETL
13 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
13 7 (13.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (13.46%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (13.46%) Oracle Exadata

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) AWS
3 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
4 6 (11.54%) Serverless
5 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (7.69%) OCI
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 17 (32.69%) Oracle Database
3 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (17.31%) NoSQL
5 7 (13.46%) MongoDB
5 7 (13.46%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (13.46%) Power BI
5 7 (13.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
7 5 (9.62%) Data Lake
7 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database 11g
7 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
8 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (5.77%) DB2
9 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
10 2 (3.85%) MySQL
10 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) ERwin
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.85%) French Language
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Node.js
2 4 (7.69%) .NET
2 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.85%) pgvector
3 2 (3.85%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) WS-I
4 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Replication
2 5 (9.62%) Clustering
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.85%) AIX
4 1 (1.92%) Unix
4 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Migration
2 14 (26.92%) Data Modelling
3 13 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (23.08%) High Availability
5 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (17.31%) Database Migration
7 8 (15.38%) Analytics
7 8 (15.38%) Database Security
7 8 (15.38%) ETL
8 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.62%) Data Architecture
9 5 (9.62%) Data Protection
9 5 (9.62%) Data Strategy
9 5 (9.62%) DevOps
9 5 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.69%) SQL Optimisation
10 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (63.46%) SQL
2 8 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 6 (11.54%) Python
4 5 (9.62%) T-SQL
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 4 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) AWK
6 2 (3.85%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.85%) sed
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.85%) GPFS
2 2 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Data Guard
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Oracle
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.85%) Delphix
5 1 (1.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.92%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.92%) VMware