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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 283 283
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 +74
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 86 63 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.53% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 29 70
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £363 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £586
Median % change year-on-year - -14.71% +16.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £675
90th Percentile £588 £749 £850
England median daily rate £445 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -1.11% -14.29% +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 16,037 11,847 16,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 93.56% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,725 8,116 12,060
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 147 337
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £51.59 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £64.06
England median hourly rate £42.59 £32.66 £33.07
% change year-on-year +30.43% -1.24% -24.42%

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 8 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 8 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 -7.14% 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 8 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 48 (55.81%) SQL
2 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
3 31 (36.05%) SQL Server
4 27 (31.40%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (30.23%) Azure
5 26 (30.23%) SC Cleared
6 21 (24.42%) High Availability
7 20 (23.26%) Oracle
8 17 (19.77%) Migration
8 17 (19.77%) Oracle Database
9 15 (17.44%) DevOps
9 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
10 14 (16.28%) AWS
10 14 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (12.79%) Data Migration
14 10 (11.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (10.47%) Analytics
15 9 (10.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 8 (9.30%) Linux
16 8 (9.30%) Performance Monitoring
16 8 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (8.14%) Data Analytics
17 7 (8.14%) Data Protection
17 7 (8.14%) Patch Management
17 7 (8.14%) Python
17 7 (8.14%) 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 (1.16%) OpenEdge
1 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.23%) Azure
2 14 (16.28%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (6.98%) Serverless
5 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.49%) SaaS
8 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.16%) PaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (19.77%) Oracle Database
3 14 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (9.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (6.98%) Big Data
6 6 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.81%) MySQL
7 5 (5.81%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (3.49%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (3.49%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (3.49%) Power BI
9 2 (2.33%) DB2
9 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Git
2 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) Toad
General
1 14 (16.28%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Banking
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Publishing
6 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) OLE
2 4 (4.65%) .NET
2 4 (4.65%) Node.js
3 3 (3.49%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.49%) GeoJSON
3 3 (3.49%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.49%) Pandas
3 3 (3.49%) Polars
3 3 (3.49%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.16%) JSON
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.16%) pgvector
4 1 (1.16%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Clustering
2 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Replication
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.40%) Performance Tuning
2 21 (24.42%) High Availability
3 17 (19.77%) Migration
4 15 (17.44%) DevOps
5 13 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.79%) Data Migration
8 9 (10.47%) Analytics
9 8 (9.30%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.30%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (8.14%) Data Analytics
10 7 (8.14%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.14%) Patch Management
10 7 (8.14%) Statistics
11 6 (6.98%) Big Data Analytics
11 6 (6.98%) CI/CD
11 6 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (6.98%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (5.81%) Database Security
12 5 (5.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.81%) SQL
2 7 (8.14%) Python
3 6 (6.98%) PL/SQL
4 4 (4.65%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) Perl
6 1 (1.16%) PHP
6 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) MCITP
3 4 (4.65%) MCTS
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.33%) Ansible
2 2 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.16%) Foglight
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 20 (23.26%) Oracle
2 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) Sybase
4 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.16%) Databricks