DBA Contracts in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 333 416
Rank change year-on-year +39 +83 -23
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 106 150 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.60% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.63% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 91 120
10th Percentile £379 £425 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £625
90th Percentile £815 £666 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.25
25th Percentile - £79.89 £30.63
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +97.86% -
75th Percentile - £88.30 £50.63
90th Percentile - - £54.75
England median hourly rate £51.50 £34.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +48.01% -30.41% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in London

DBA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DBA in London

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DBA in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DBA in London

DBA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DBA in London

DBA
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +32 12 £600 +9.09% 3
West London - 2 £606 -
East London -5 1 £380 +4.33%
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 60 (56.60%) SQL
2 47 (44.34%) Oracle
3 38 (35.85%) AWS
4 35 (33.02%) Oracle Database
5 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
6 29 (27.36%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (24.53%) Migration
8 25 (23.58%) SQL Server
8 25 (23.58%) Python
8 25 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (19.81%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (19.81%) Azure
10 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
11 18 (16.98%) Replication
11 18 (16.98%) Database Tuning
11 18 (16.98%) Social Skills
12 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
13 16 (15.09%) DV Cleared
14 15 (14.15%) Sybase ASE
14 15 (14.15%) MySQL
14 15 (14.15%) Sybase
15 14 (13.21%) Java
15 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (12.26%) Task Automation
16 13 (12.26%) Database Security
16 13 (12.26%) Perl
16 13 (12.26%) Linux
17 12 (11.32%) T-SQL
17 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
17 12 (11.32%) Banking

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (1.89%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.94%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.85%) AWS
2 21 (19.81%) Azure
3 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.77%) OCI
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.83%) IaaS
5 3 (2.83%) PaaS
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.89%) GCP
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) HTTP
1 1 (0.94%) Internet
1 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (33.02%) Oracle Database
2 29 (27.36%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (23.58%) SQL Server
4 21 (19.81%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (14.15%) MySQL
5 15 (14.15%) Sybase ASE
6 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (6.60%) DB2
8 7 (6.60%) RDBMS
9 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.72%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.83%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Maven
2 5 (4.72%) Git
2 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.32%) Banking
3 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.66%) Finance
5 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Electronics
7 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Advertising
8 1 (0.94%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.94%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.94%) Front Office
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.94%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) Hibernate
1 11 (10.38%) JPA
2 3 (2.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (2.83%) Spring
2 3 (2.83%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.94%) LDAP
3 1 (0.94%) Middleware
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Replication
2 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.49%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.72%) Clustering
6 4 (3.77%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.83%) Derivative
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.89%) NHS
8 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Linux
2 9 (8.49%) Unix
3 5 (4.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.53%) Migration
2 25 (23.58%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (16.98%) Database Tuning
4 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (12.26%) Database Security
5 13 (12.26%) Task Automation
6 12 (11.32%) Database Migration
7 11 (10.38%) DevOps
7 11 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.43%) ITIL
8 10 (9.43%) SDLC
9 9 (8.49%) Agile
10 8 (7.55%) High Availability
10 8 (7.55%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.55%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.60%) Information Security
11 7 (6.60%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (6.60%) Software Architecture
12 6 (5.66%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 6 (5.66%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.60%) SQL
2 25 (23.58%) Python
3 14 (13.21%) Java
4 13 (12.26%) Perl
5 12 (11.32%) T-SQL
6 9 (8.49%) Bash
6 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.60%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.77%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) MCITP
5 3 (2.83%) MCTS
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (1.89%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (11.32%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Puppet
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 3 (2.83%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.94%) Kibana
4 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.94%) logstash
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (44.34%) Oracle
2 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
3 15 (14.15%) Sybase
4 11 (10.38%) SAP
5 7 (6.60%) IBM
6 4 (3.77%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.77%) Sun
6 4 (3.77%) Veritas
7 2 (1.89%) NEC
7 2 (1.89%) Northgate
8 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.94%) Google
8 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.94%) RedGate
8 1 (0.94%) Splunk