SC Cleared DBA Contract Job Trends in South London

Security Check Clearance Database Administrator
London > South London

The median Security Check Clearance Database Administrator daily rate in South London is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared DBA 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £546 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
London median daily rate £400 £600 £521
% change year-on-year -33.33% +15.11% -16.60%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 299 158 178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 91.33% 97.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 101 123
10th Percentile £403 £213 £363
25th Percentile £456 £320 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +1.50% -5.66%
75th Percentile £570 £630 £567
90th Percentile £725 £706 £725
London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £27.47 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £58.74 £17.98 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.67% -7.79% -61.32%
75th Percentile £65.20 - £71.88
90th Percentile £65.90 - £73.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -16.11%

SC Cleared DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SC Cleared DBA job vacancy trend in South London

SC Cleared DBA
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in South London

SC Cleared DBA
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared DBA within the South London region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Croydon - 2 £543 -
SC Cleared DBA
London

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 9 August 2026, SC Cleared 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 South London region featuring SC Cleared DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform