DBA Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Database Administrator
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Stoke-on-Trent is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Stoke-on-Trent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent with a recognized job title 19 32 51
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 94.12% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 41
10th Percentile £204 - £338
25th Percentile £300 £110 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £374 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -25.20% +44.40%
75th Percentile £419 £472 £550
90th Percentile £459 £488 £600
Staffordshire median daily rate £338 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -15.63% -11.11% +1.12%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

DBA job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent

DBA Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent

For the 6 months to 25 December 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 Stoke-on-Trent region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell