Database Specialist Contract Job Trends in the South East

Database Specialist
England > South East

The median Database Specialist daily rate in the South East is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 - 198
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs requiring a Database Specialist 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.065% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £443 - £444
25th Percentile £445 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.04%
75th Percentile £493 - £491
90th Percentile £520 - £496
England median daily rate £525 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +34.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £57.01
25th Percentile - - £58.29
Median hourly rate - - £59.57
75th Percentile - - £61.04
90th Percentile - - £62.22
England median hourly rate - - £59.57

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 4,179 2,959 5,098
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 92.88% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 1,836 3,175
10th Percentile £256 £238 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 106 402
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.46 £42.69 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -40.36% -5.35% +0.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £69.38 £76.44
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.10%

Database Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Database Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Database Specialist job vacancy trend in the South East

Database Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Database Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Database Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Hampshire - 2 £486 -
Berkshire - 1 £445 -
Thames Valley - 1 £445 -
Database Specialist
England

Database Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Database Specialist 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 South East region featuring Database Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Database Security
2 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) OCP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning

Database Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) OCP
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) CyberArk