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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 116 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a DBA 6 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.44% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.48% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £362 £333 £341
25th Percentile £380 £374 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £455 £620 £438
90th Percentile £482 £644 £471
South East median daily rate £450 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% -20.00%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,527 2,063 2,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 91.40% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 1,179 1,816
10th Percentile £276 £254 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £613
90th Percentile £683 £688 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 123 92
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.06 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +18.80% +145.06%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.49 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies 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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the Thames Valley

DBA
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +10 4 £455 -11.32% 2
Buckinghamshire +3 2 £350 - 6
DBA
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) OCI
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security

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 3 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (50.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle