Sybase DBA Contract Job Trends in London

Sybase Database Administrator
England > London

The median Sybase Database Administrator daily rate in London is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 345 376
Rank change year-on-year -53 +31 -
Contract jobs requiring a Sybase DBA 2 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.012% 0.008% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.008% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £346 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £600
75th Percentile £549 - £815
90th Percentile £595 - £852
England median daily rate £450 £688 £600
% change year-on-year -34.55% +14.58% -

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 15,398 11,935 16,887
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.66% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,315 8,083 12,185
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 145 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +25.93% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £73.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

Sybase DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Sybase DBA job vacancy trend in London

Sybase DBA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Sybase DBA job vacancies in London

Sybase DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sybase DBA in London over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sybase DBA in London

Sybase DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Sybase DBA job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Sybase DBA job vacancies in London

Sybase 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 Sybase DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 21 March 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
South London - 1 £600 - 1
Sybase DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, Sybase 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 Sybase DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving

Sybase 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle