DBA Contracts in the South East

Database Administrator
England > South East

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the South East is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 177 182
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 +37
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 19 23 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.45% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 28
10th Percentile £438 £413 £312
25th Percentile £450 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +29.73% -6.14%
75th Percentile £541 £625 £525
90th Percentile £561 - £575
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £18.00
75th Percentile £65.62 - £19.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £51.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +23.78% +48.01% -30.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,666 5,132 5,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.19% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,790 3,075 3,697
10th Percentile £220 £225 £219
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 502 233
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.32 £21.94
Median hourly rate £33.05 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% -3.06% +139.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +93.72%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the South East

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
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 DBA within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +39 11 £455 +6.94% 23
Berkshire +30 11 £455 -4.32% 10
Hampshire +32 3 £500 -16.67% 9
East Sussex - 3 £450 - 5
Kent +5 2 £568 +26.11% 5
Surrey - 1 £525 - 4
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, DBA contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 15 (78.95%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (57.89%) Oracle
3 11 (57.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
5 8 (42.11%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (36.84%) Task Automation
7 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
7 6 (31.58%) Database Security
7 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database
7 6 (31.58%) Migration
7 6 (31.58%) High Availability
7 6 (31.58%) Azure
8 5 (26.32%) AWS
8 5 (26.32%) Data Migration
8 5 (26.32%) Database Tuning
8 5 (26.32%) Database Migration
9 4 (21.05%) OCI
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (21.05%) ITIL
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (21.05%) Workflow
9 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
3 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) OCI
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Miro
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database
3 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) DBeaver
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Military
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (57.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (42.11%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (36.84%) Task Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Database Security
5 6 (31.58%) High Availability
5 6 (31.58%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Data Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Database Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Database Tuning
7 4 (21.05%) ITIL
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (21.05%) Workflow
8 3 (15.79%) ERP
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) SOA
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Optimisation
8 3 (15.79%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Perl
2 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds