DBA Contracts in Central London

Database Administrator
London > Central London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in Central London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 152 174
Rank change year-on-year +34 +22 -31
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 13 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 15
10th Percentile £504 £503 £431
25th Percentile £531 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £678 £634 £575
90th Percentile £698 £645 £583
London median daily rate £575 £525 £556
% change year-on-year +9.52% -5.62% +12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £79.89 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.89% -
75th Percentile - £88.30 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £84.09 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +97.86% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,284 3,513 4,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 95.15% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 2,395 3,207
10th Percentile £340 £325 £355
25th Percentile £439 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 52
10th Percentile £20.04 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £20.02
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -3.45% +101.67%
75th Percentile £27.81 £53.13 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £62.43
London median hourly rate £27.66 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.18% +2.86% +11.75%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DBA in Central London.

Daily rate trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DBA in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
City of London +44 13 £600 +9.09% 3
City of Westminster 0 2 - -
DBA
London

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, 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 Central London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
3 5 (38.46%) Replication
3 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Perl
4 4 (30.77%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (30.77%) Sybase
4 4 (30.77%) DB2
4 4 (30.77%) SAP
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Unix
4 4 (30.77%) Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
4 4 (30.77%) IBM
4 4 (30.77%) Sun
4 4 (30.77%) Veritas
4 4 (30.77%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
4 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) QA
4 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 4 (30.77%) DB2
2 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
2 4 (30.77%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
5 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.69%) Redis
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Replication
2 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.69%) Agile
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Database Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
6 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Perl
2 4 (30.77%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
2 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Sun
2 4 (30.77%) Sybase
2 4 (30.77%) Veritas
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft