Senior DBA Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Senior Database Administrator
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Senior Database Administrator daily rate in Milton Keynes is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.21% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - -
75th Percentile £408 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £405 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 455 202 465
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 95.73% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 150 352
10th Percentile £305 £259 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% - -
75th Percentile £589 £589 £598
90th Percentile £640 £650 £660
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £481 £493
% change year-on-year +3.90% -2.28% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 32
10th Percentile £15.47 £13.65 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.13 £17.91
Median hourly rate £29.61 £18.85 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -16.26% +18.47%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.88 £27.75
90th Percentile £39.63 £55.15 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.08 £38.25 £22.87
% change year-on-year -34.44% +67.27% +34.51%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Senior DBA job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Senior DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, Senior 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Security Auditing
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Security Auditing
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
Senior DBA jobs