SC Cleared DBA Contract Job Trends

Security Check Clearance Database Administrator
UK

The median Security Check Clearance Database Administrator daily rate in the UK is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 505 586
Rank change year-on-year -72 +81 +166
Contract jobs requiring a SC Cleared DBA 9 30 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.088% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.095% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 12
10th Percentile £394 £400 £410
25th Percentile £425 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £519 £611 £591
90th Percentile £613 £730 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -20.35% +0.44% +2.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 33,430 31,506 40,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 92.78% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,135 19,373 27,542
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 981 1,444
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.53 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £72.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

SC Cleared DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

SC Cleared DBA job vacancy trend in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared DBA over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared DBA in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SC Cleared DBA job vacancies in the UK

SC Cleared DBA
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 21 December 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
England -47 8 £481 -12.50% 1
London -17 7 £513 +2.50% 1
Work from Home -23 4 £481 -1.28% 1
UK excluding London -34 2 £450 -20.35%
North of England - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - -

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, 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 featuring SC Cleared DBA in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) DB2
5 1 (11.11%) DB2 UDB
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Windows
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server

SC Cleared DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) DB2 UDB
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
1 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) RBAC
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
2 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory