Managed DBA services

DBA Hub Managed DBA Pricing

Flexible, proactive database support tailored to your business needs.

All plans include a 3-month introductory rate while we onboard, optimise, and stabilise your environment.

Plans

Choose a tier that matches your environment size, risk profile, and how much DBA time you need each month.

Essential Plan

£350/month (first 3 months)
£500/month thereafter

Best for: Small environments and low-risk systems

Whats included

  • Weekly or bi-weekly health checks
  • Backup monitoring & validation
  • Basic performance review
  • Email support (business hours)
  • Up to 4 hours of DBA support per month

Professional Plan

£900/month (first 3 months)
£1,200/month thereafter

Best for: Growing businesses and production systems

Whats included

  • Everything in Essential, plus:
  • Query tuning & performance optimisation
  • Index and maintenance strategy
  • High Availability / Disaster Recovery validation (SQL Server, AWS RDS, MongoDB Atlas)
  • Monthly reporting
  • Priority support
  • Up to 8 hours of DBA support per month

Enterprise Plan

£2,000/month (first 3 months)
£2,500/month thereafter

Best for: Critical systems and high-performance environments

Whats included

  • Everything in Professional, plus:
  • Architecture & design support (AWS, Azure, MongoDB Atlas)
  • Cost optimisation (compute, storage, scaling)
  • Automation (PowerShell, pipelines, custom solutions)
  • Security & auditing (SQL Audit, Splunk integration, monitoring)
  • Priority incident response
  • Up to 20 hours of DBA support per month

Additional Services

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Additional support hours

£85/hour

Emergency support

£120/hour

Project work

Scoped and priced per engagement.

Additional Information

  • Unused hours do not roll over month to month.
  • Additional work beyond included hours is billed at the standard hourly rate.
  • Advanced or specialist work (e.g. complex architecture or deep performance issues) may be scoped separately.

Contact us

Discuss which plan fits your estate, SLAs, and budget - or ask for a tailored quote.