DBA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Database Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 57 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 +33
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 3 26 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% 2.19% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 2.33% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £375 £426 £389
25th Percentile £394 £440 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -16.51% +25.41%
75th Percentile £463 £453 £543
90th Percentile £470 £505 £571
North West median daily rate £450 £445 £533
% change year-on-year +1.12% -16.51% +8.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 999 1,114 1,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 93.85% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 643 1,113
10th Percentile £301 £313 £285
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £575
90th Percentile £676 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 66
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.85 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.63 £17.20
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £31.40 £53.38 £46.88
90th Percentile £55.15 £65.95 £65.63
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £31.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -6.03% -4.55% +65.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

DBA job vacancy trend in Manchester

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Manchester

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Manchester

DBA Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 17 November 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 Manchester region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) XML

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
4 DBA jobs in Manchester