DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 246 288
Rank change year-on-year -61 +42 +123
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 62 126 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.84% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.89% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 88
10th Percentile £353 £350 £380
25th Percentile £463 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £700 £674 £650
England median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +1.01%

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 13,187 14,093 17,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.53% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,735 9,130 12,805
10th Percentile £343 £335 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £759 £799 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% - -
75th Percentile £57.13 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

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 18 December 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 December 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 +3 12 £543 +7.06% 6
South London - 3 £275 - 2
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 28 (45.16%) SQL
2 26 (41.94%) Azure
3 19 (30.65%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
4 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
5 15 (24.19%) AWS
5 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
5 15 (24.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (24.19%) SQL Server
6 14 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (20.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (20.97%) NoSQL
7 13 (20.97%) Serverless
8 11 (17.74%) Node.js
8 11 (17.74%) Oracle
9 10 (16.13%) Migration
10 8 (12.90%) Data Protection
10 8 (12.90%) DevOps
10 8 (12.90%) MongoDB
10 8 (12.90%) Oracle Database
11 7 (11.29%) .NET
11 7 (11.29%) Azure AKS
11 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (11.29%) Azure Functions
11 7 (11.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (11.29%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (11.29%) C#
11 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
11 7 (11.29%) Git
11 7 (11.29%) High Availability

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 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) AWS
3 13 (20.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 13 (20.97%) Serverless
4 7 (11.29%) Azure AKS
4 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.29%) Azure Functions
4 7 (11.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (11.29%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (24.19%) SQL Server
3 13 (20.97%) NoSQL
4 8 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 8 (12.90%) Oracle Database
5 6 (9.68%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (6.45%) DB2
7 4 (6.45%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.84%) Power BI
8 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.61%) MySQL
10 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.61%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 16 (25.81%) Finance
2 14 (22.58%) Banking
3 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Node.js
2 7 (11.29%) .NET
3 6 (9.68%) .NET Core
3 6 (9.68%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (3.23%) pgvector
5 2 (3.23%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.68%) Replication
4 3 (4.84%) Clustering
4 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) AIX
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) VMS
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
1 15 (24.19%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (16.13%) Migration
4 8 (12.90%) Data Protection
4 8 (12.90%) DevOps
5 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.29%) High Availability
5 7 (11.29%) Microservices
5 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
6 6 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (8.06%) Agile
7 5 (8.06%) ETL
7 5 (8.06%) OO
7 5 (8.06%) OOD
7 5 (8.06%) Patch Management
7 5 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.16%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) C#
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) Java
4 3 (4.84%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) AWK
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) sed
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) GPFS
2 1 (1.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Data Guard
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Oracle
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.61%) IBM
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat