DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 319 253
Rank change year-on-year -39 -66 +65
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 76 49 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.36% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.39% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 87
10th Percentile £350 £375 £339
25th Percentile £363 £422 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +6.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £588 £703 £725
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 18,540 12,626 15,560
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.07% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,139 8,542 11,072
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 £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 200 228
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.39% -13.61%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.13 £52.44
90th Percentile £77.83 £63.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +3 18 £488 -21.12% 4
South London - 3 £600 -
West London -18 1 £550 -26.67% 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 43 (56.58%) SQL
2 33 (43.42%) Performance Tuning
2 33 (43.42%) SQL Server
3 26 (34.21%) High Availability
4 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
5 21 (27.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (26.32%) Oracle
7 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
8 17 (22.37%) Migration
9 16 (21.05%) Azure
10 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
11 14 (18.42%) Oracle Database
12 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (15.79%) DevOps
14 11 (14.47%) AWS
14 11 (14.47%) Windows
15 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
15 10 (13.16%) Python
16 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
16 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
17 8 (10.53%) Analytics
17 8 (10.53%) MySQL
17 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
18 7 (9.21%) Linux
18 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
18 7 (9.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 6 (7.89%) Agile
19 6 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
19 6 (7.89%) Big Data

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 5 (6.58%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.32%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) AWS
3 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.95%) SaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) PaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.32%) GitHub
6 1 (1.32%) OCI
6 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (43.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle Database
3 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.53%) MySQL
4 8 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (9.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.89%) Big Data
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
8 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (3.95%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (3.95%) Power BI
9 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.63%) OLTP
10 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (2.63%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Git
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Flyway
3 1 (1.32%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.32%) Toad
General
1 15 (19.74%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Publishing
7 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) International Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) OLE
2 3 (3.95%) GeoJSON
2 3 (3.95%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.95%) Pandas
2 3 (3.95%) Polars
2 3 (3.95%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.63%) JSON
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.32%) .NET
4 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.32%) Kafka
4 1 (1.32%) Node.js
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (1.32%) pgvector
4 1 (1.32%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.32%) Spring
4 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.32%) XML
4 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Clustering
2 10 (13.16%) Replication
3 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) NHS
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.32%) AIX
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (34.21%) High Availability
3 21 (27.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (22.37%) Migration
5 12 (15.79%) DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.53%) Analytics
8 7 (9.21%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (7.89%) Agile
9 6 (7.89%) Big Data Analytics
9 6 (7.89%) Change Management
9 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.89%) Data Analytics
9 6 (7.89%) Incident Management
9 6 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.58%) Database Migration
10 5 (6.58%) Database Optimisation
10 5 (6.58%) Database Security
10 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) Python
3 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.58%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.95%) Java
7 2 (2.63%) Groovy
7 2 (2.63%) Perl
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) Korn
8 1 (1.32%) RPG
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.26%) MCITP
3 4 (5.26%) MCTS
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Terraform
2 5 (6.58%) Data Guard
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (3.95%) SCOM
5 2 (2.63%) Grafana
5 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) Nagios
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Oracle
2 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) VMware
4 4 (5.26%) BMC
4 4 (5.26%) Remedy
5 3 (3.95%) Commvault
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) Sybase
7 1 (1.32%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat