DBA Contracts in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 332 406
Rank change year-on-year +39 +74 -55
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 101 162 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.65% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 99 132
10th Percentile £400 £449 £423
25th Percentile £463 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -6.67% +14.50%
75th Percentile £681 £625 £625
90th Percentile £815 £666 £661
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.13
25th Percentile - £79.89 £25.31
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year - +169.09% -
75th Percentile - £88.30 £37.81
90th Percentile - - £41.38
England median hourly rate £51.50 £37.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year +37.71% -19.14% -7.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,468 24,945 36,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 18,104 26,876
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 282 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.79 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.64%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £79.80 £68.19
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in London.

Daily rate trend for DBA in London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in London.

Hourly rate trend for DBA 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 11 May 2024. 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 +39 12 £600 +9.09% 1
East London -1 1 £380 +86.76% 1
West London - 1 £675 - 1
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 63 (62.38%) SQL
2 43 (42.57%) Oracle
3 32 (31.68%) AWS
3 32 (31.68%) Oracle Database
4 27 (26.73%) SQL Server
5 26 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
6 25 (24.75%) Python
6 25 (24.75%) Azure
7 24 (23.76%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (21.78%) Migration
9 21 (20.79%) MySQL
9 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
10 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
11 17 (16.83%) Linux
11 17 (16.83%) Replication
11 17 (16.83%) Banking
12 16 (15.84%) Database Tuning
13 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (14.85%) DV Cleared
13 15 (14.85%) Java
14 14 (13.86%) Sybase
14 14 (13.86%) Sybase ASE
14 14 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (12.87%) T-SQL
16 12 (11.88%) Perl
16 12 (11.88%) Management Information System
16 12 (11.88%) Task Automation
16 12 (11.88%) Database Security
17 11 (10.89%) Ansible

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.98%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.99%) Apache
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.99%) IIS
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.68%) AWS
2 25 (24.75%) Azure
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.96%) OCI
4 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (2.97%) IaaS
4 3 (2.97%) PaaS
5 2 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.98%) GCP
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) HTTP
1 1 (0.99%) Internet
1 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.68%) Oracle Database
2 27 (26.73%) SQL Server
3 26 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (20.79%) MySQL
5 14 (13.86%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (13.86%) Sybase ASE
6 10 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (8.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (8.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
9 7 (6.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (5.94%) DB2
10 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
10 6 (5.94%) RDBMS
11 5 (4.95%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Maven
2 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.96%) Git
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Banking
3 10 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.91%) Finance
5 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.98%) Electronics
7 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.99%) Advertising
8 1 (0.99%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.99%) Front Office
8 1 (0.99%) Local Government
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) Hibernate
1 11 (10.89%) JPA
2 3 (2.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.97%) Spring
2 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.98%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) LDAP
4 1 (0.99%) Middleware
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Replication
2 12 (11.88%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.92%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.96%) Clustering
5 4 (3.96%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (2.97%) Derivative
6 3 (2.97%) NHS
6 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.83%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Unix
3 5 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.96%) Windows
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (23.76%) Performance Tuning
2 22 (21.78%) Migration
3 16 (15.84%) Database Tuning
4 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.88%) Database Security
5 12 (11.88%) Task Automation
6 11 (10.89%) Database Migration
6 11 (10.89%) DevOps
7 10 (9.90%) SDLC
8 9 (8.91%) Agile
8 9 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (8.91%) ITIL
9 8 (7.92%) Software Engineering
9 8 (7.92%) Storage Management
10 7 (6.93%) High Availability
10 7 (6.93%) Incident Management
10 7 (6.93%) Information Security
10 7 (6.93%) Software Architecture
11 6 (5.94%) ETL
12 5 (4.95%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (62.38%) SQL
2 25 (24.75%) Python
3 15 (14.85%) Java
4 13 (12.87%) T-SQL
5 12 (11.88%) Perl
6 9 (8.91%) Bash
6 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.94%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.98%) VBA
10 1 (0.99%) Bicep
10 1 (0.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.85%) DV Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
5 3 (2.97%) MCITP
5 3 (2.97%) MCTS
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (1.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (10.89%) Ansible
2 7 (6.93%) Data Guard
3 5 (4.95%) Puppet
4 3 (2.97%) Terraform
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) Kibana
5 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.99%) logstash
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (42.57%) Oracle
2 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.86%) Sybase
4 10 (9.90%) SAP
5 6 (5.94%) IBM
6 5 (4.95%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.96%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.97%) Sun
8 3 (2.97%) Veritas
9 2 (1.98%) NEC
9 2 (1.98%) Northgate
10 1 (0.99%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.99%) Google
10 1 (0.99%) RedGate
10 1 (0.99%) Splunk