DBA Contracts in Yorkshire

Database Administrator
England > Yorkshire

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 80 108
Rank change year-on-year -25 +28 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a DBA 4 21 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.26% 1.36% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 1.51% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 7
10th Percentile £460 £433 £482
25th Percentile £475 £450 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.66%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £538
90th Percentile £560 - £543
England median daily rate £463 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -2.63% -2.06% -7.62%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,425 1,388 1,978
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 89.84% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 861 1,308
10th Percentile £256 £288 £220
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £616
90th Percentile £618 £655 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 58 37
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.50 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +4.35% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Yorkshire

DBA
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Yorkshire

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Yorkshire

DBA
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
South Yorkshire -16 4 £500 -14.89%
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 27 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 Yorkshire region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) yum
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle