Senior SQL DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Senior SQL Database Administrator
England > London

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator daily rate in London is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 348 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.008% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £301 - -
25th Percentile £329 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £365 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £360 £600 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

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 15,851 11,873 16,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 93.61% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 8,134 12,136
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 £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 148 336
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.15 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -21.66%
75th Percentile £60.12 £51.39 £46.59
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £64.14
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior SQL DBA' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior SQL DBA job vacancy trend in London

Senior SQL DBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in London

Senior SQL 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 Senior SQL DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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 -11 4 £360 -40.00%
Senior SQL DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 2026, Senior SQL 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 Senior SQL DBA in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 4 (66.67%) Big Data Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase
4 1 (16.67%) Sybase ASE

Senior SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Sybase