DBA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Database Administrator
South East > Thames Valley

The median Database Administrator daily rate in the Thames Valley is £409, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 134 142
Rank change year-on-year +44 +8 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 12 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.44% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £355 £403 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £420 £538 £489
90th Percentile £468 £580 £500
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 - £18.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +31 8 £409 -20.20% 6
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £400 -5.88% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 - 2
DBA
South East

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) MariaDB
5 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Miro
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
6 2 (16.67%) DBeaver
6 2 (16.67%) Google
6 2 (16.67%) JIRA
6 2 (16.67%) Release Management
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) DBeaver
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) HPUX
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Solaris
1 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) High Availability
2 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (8.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Korn
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy