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 25 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 372 | 327 | 254 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -45 | -73 | +51 |
| Contract DBA jobs | 82 | 49 | 128 |
| As % of all contract jobs in London | 0.40% | 0.37% | 0.81% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.43% | 0.39% | 0.86% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 55 | 32 | 71 |
| 10th Percentile | £328 | £375 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £463 | £429 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £525 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +5.00% | +4.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £564 | £625 | £627 |
| 90th Percentile | £575 | £675 | £700 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £490 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | +2.04% | +3.16% |
All Contract IT Job Roles
London
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 25 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in London matching a recognised job title | 18,884 | 12,414 | 14,863 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 92.84% | 92.61% | 94.09% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 12,272 | 8,250 | 9,624 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £334 | £343 |
| 25th Percentile | £450 | £425 | £450 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £543 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.34% | -1.32% | -4.35% |
| 75th Percentile | £663 | £663 | £675 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £775 | £800 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £510 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.94% | -2.86% | -2.78% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 432 | 218 | 165 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.70 | £17.00 | £17.25 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.93 | £22.13 | £24.18 |
| Median hourly rate | £41.00 | £26.68 | £39.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +53.70% | -31.60% | -3.70% |
| 75th Percentile | £65.00 | £47.50 | £60.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £81.25 | £66.15 | £80.45 |
| England median hourly rate | £41.63 | £25.15 | £42.50 |
| % change year-on-year | +65.54% | -40.82% | -7.37% |
DBA Job Vacancy Trend in London
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract DBA job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.
DBA Daily Rate Trend in London
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in London.
DBA Daily Rate Histogram in London
Daily rate distribution for DBA jobs in London over the 6 months to 25 October 2026.
DBA Hourly Rate Trend 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 DBA jobs within the London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South London | - | 15 | £530 | - | |
| Central London | -27 | 7 | £501 | -23.00% | 8 |
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DBA Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London
For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, DBA contract job ads cited 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 DBA job ads across the London region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Security Cleared | 63.4% | 52 |
| 2 | SC Cleared | 62.2% | 51 |
| 3 | Disaster Recovery | 52.4% | 43 |
| 3 | Performance Tuning | 52.4% | 43 |
| 3 | SQL | 52.4% | 43 |
| 6 | AWS | 47.6% | 39 |
| 6 | High Availability | 47.6% | 39 |
| 8 | PostgreSQL | 46.3% | 38 |
| 9 | Amazon Aurora | 36.6% | 30 |
| 10 | SQL Server | 35.4% | 29 |
| 11 | Amazon RDS | 31.7% | 26 |
| 12 | Data Modelling | 29.3% | 24 |
| 13 | Migration | 26.8% | 22 |
| 13 | Terraform | 26.8% | 22 |
| 15 | CI/CD | 25.6% | 21 |
| 16 | Oracle | 24.4% | 20 |
| 17 | Infrastructure as Code | 23.2% | 19 |
| 17 | MySQL | 23.2% | 19 |
| 17 | Root Cause Analysis | 23.2% | 19 |
| 20 | Stakeholder Management | 22.0% | 18 |
| 21 | PowerShell | 20.7% | 17 |
| 21 | Validation | 20.7% | 17 |
| 23 | Amazon CloudWatch | 19.5% | 16 |
| 23 | AWS Certification | 19.5% | 16 |
| 23 | AWS CloudFormation | 19.5% | 16 |
| 26 | AWS KMS | 18.3% | 15 |
| 26 | Data Reconciliation | 18.3% | 15 |
| 26 | Linux | 18.3% | 15 |
| 26 | Virtual Private Cloud | 18.3% | 15 |
| 30 | Incident Management | 15.9% | 13 |
DBA Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Administrator | 48.8% | 40 |
| 2 | SQL DBA | 24.4% | 20 |
| 3 | Senior DBA | 22.0% | 18 |
| 4 | PostgreSQL DBA | 17.1% | 14 |
| 5 | Oracle DBA | 15.9% | 13 |
| 6 | AWS Administrator | 13.4% | 11 |
| 7 | SC Cleared DBA | 8.5% | 7 |
| 8 | MySQL DBA | 6.1% | 5 |
| 8 | SQL Server DBA | 6.1% | 5 |
| 10 | Data Modeller | 4.9% | 4 |
| 10 | DevOps Engineer | 4.9% | 4 |
| 12 | Senior SQL DBA | 3.7% | 3 |
| 13 | Oracle Specialist | 2.4% | 2 |
| 13 | Sybase DBA | 2.4% | 2 |
| 15 | DB2 DBA | 1.2% | 1 |
| 15 | DV Cleared DBA | 1.2% | 1 |
| 15 | Oracle Applications DBA | 1.2% | 1 |
| 15 | Payments Architect | 1.2% | 1 |
| 15 | Production DBA | 1.2% | 1 |
| 15 | Senior Architect | 1.2% | 1 |