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Database software contracts

UK public sector · 74 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
74
Last 12 months
Median contract
£80k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£43.9m
71 of 74 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
56
Suppliers
28

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most database software contracts took 58% of them (43 of 74).
  • The median contract, £80k, is 27% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • BANK OF ENGLAND awarded 5% of the database software contracts (4 of 74).

Who buys database software

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1BANK OF ENGLAND4 contracts
  2. 2Coventry University3 contracts
  3. 3Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire3 contracts
  4. 4Met Office3 contracts
  5. 5Office for National Statistics2 contracts
  6. 6University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation2 contracts
  7. 7NHS England2 contracts
  8. 8University of Edinburgh2 contracts
  9. 9Student Loans Company2 contracts
  10. 10Sellafield Ltd2 contracts

Top database software contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Oracle20 contracts
  2. 2Phoenix Software7 contracts
  3. 3Softcat6 contracts
  4. 4ACTIAN EUROPE LIMITED5 contracts
  5. 5MongoDB5 contracts
  6. 6PRO DBA3 contracts
  7. 7DSP-Explorer2 contracts
  8. 8Computacenter1 contract
  9. 9CGI1 contract
  10. 10SAP UK Limited1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

19Q4 2025*26Q1 202613Q2 202615Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 62 · Scotland 8 · Wales 3 · Northern Ireland 1

London8Scotland8South West7North West6West Midlands5Yorkshire and The Humber4East of England4South East3Wales3North East2Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated23

What is included

Database management systems and search engines with their licences and vendor support, and DBA services that monitor, tune and manage the buyer's Oracle, SQL Server and other databases, on premise or in the cloud.

  • Database management system licences and vendor support (for example Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
  • Search engine software licences
  • DBA support and managed database services
  • Database monitoring and tuning

What is not included

  • Data integration and replication tools -> it.data.data-integration-and-data-quality
  • Building the data platform or warehouse -> it.data.data-platforms-and-engineering
  • Application performance monitoring -> it.infra.infrastructure-monitoring
  • Enterprise-wide support across all of a vendor's products -> it.infra.vendor-premier-support
  • Managed cloud database consumption -> it.infra.public-cloud

Often bought by the same buyers