DBA Jobs in Edinburgh

Database Administrator
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Database Administrator salary in Edinburgh is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - -38
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 4 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.26% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 - £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.93%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £51,250
90th Percentile - - £52,000
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £41,625
% change year-on-year -4.17% +44.14% -4.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,470 2,051 2,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.83% 95.53% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,207 1,413
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Edinburgh

DBA
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for DBA in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DBA 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 permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Broadband
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle