DBA Jobs in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator salary in England 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 469 511 544
Rank change year-on-year +42 +33 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 408 523 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.61% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 312 420 555
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £38,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in England

DBA
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DBA in England

DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in England

DBA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +51 97 £55,000 - 12
London +106 82 £67,000 +11.67% 23
Midlands +1 75 £57,500 +15.00% 8
South West +19 68 £57,500 +11.65% 2
South East -33 57 £57,500 +4.55% 9
North West +31 54 £55,000 +1.85% 4
East Midlands +18 42 £55,000 +1.85% 2
West Midlands -17 29 £57,500 +15.00% 6
Yorkshire +69 25 £51,500 -8.04% 6
East of England -3 25 £57,500 +4.55% 9
North East +3 18 £52,500 +31.25% 2
DBA
UK

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

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 England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 305 (74.75%) SQL
2 242 (59.31%) SQL Server
3 187 (45.83%) Microsoft
4 186 (45.59%) Azure
5 165 (40.44%) Performance Tuning
6 157 (38.48%) Social Skills
7 141 (34.56%) T-SQL
8 125 (30.64%) Oracle
9 119 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 116 (28.43%) Business Intelligence
11 107 (26.23%) Power Platform
11 107 (26.23%) Power BI
12 98 (24.02%) High Availability
13 96 (23.53%) Finance
14 94 (23.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 94 (23.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 88 (21.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 84 (20.59%) Linux
17 83 (20.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 75 (18.38%) MySQL
19 74 (18.14%) Collaborative Working
20 71 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
21 70 (17.16%) Windows
22 68 (16.67%) AWS
23 66 (16.18%) Security Cleared
24 65 (15.93%) PowerShell
24 65 (15.93%) Virtual Machines
25 63 (15.44%) Broadband
25 63 (15.44%) VMS
26 61 (14.95%) Oracle Database

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (1.72%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.74%) CICS
2 3 (0.74%) MQSeries
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.74%) Tomcat
2 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
2 3 (0.74%) WildFly
3 2 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.94%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.74%) Maximo
3 2 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 186 (45.59%) Azure
2 107 (26.23%) Power Platform
3 68 (16.67%) AWS
4 22 (5.39%) OCI
5 20 (4.90%) GCP
6 9 (2.21%) Datadog
7 7 (1.72%) GitHub
7 7 (1.72%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.47%) PaaS
9 5 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.98%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.98%) SaaS
11 3 (0.74%) IaaS
12 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.49%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.44%) Broadband
2 5 (1.23%) DAB
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.49%) SSL
4 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.25%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (59.31%) SQL Server
2 107 (26.23%) Power BI
3 94 (23.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 88 (21.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 83 (20.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 75 (18.38%) MySQL
7 61 (14.95%) Oracle Database
8 52 (12.75%) MongoDB
9 50 (12.25%) Relational Database
10 43 (10.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 40 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (5.39%) RDBMS
14 21 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (3.43%) NoSQL
16 13 (3.19%) Oracle Database 12c
17 12 (2.94%) DB2
18 11 (2.70%) OLTP
19 10 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
20 9 (2.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (4.41%) Git
2 7 (1.72%) JIRA
2 7 (1.72%) Mercurial
3 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 157 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 96 (23.53%) Finance
3 40 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.94%) Back Office
6 12 (2.94%) Local Government
6 12 (2.94%) Police
7 9 (2.21%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.96%) Retail
9 7 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.23%) Law
11 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Games
12 2 (0.49%) German Language
12 2 (0.49%) Military
12 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.21%) XML
2 7 (1.72%) .NET
3 6 (1.47%) Middleware
4 4 (0.98%) RESTful
5 3 (0.74%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.74%) EDI
6 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.49%) JSON
6 2 (0.49%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.25%) CSS
7 1 (0.25%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.25%) J2EE
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.29%) Replication
2 34 (8.33%) Clustering
3 18 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.19%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.45%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.72%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.47%) NHS
8 6 (1.47%) PMI
9 3 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.74%) VSAM
10 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.49%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.49%) Photography
11 1 (0.25%) FMCG
11 1 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.59%) Linux
2 70 (17.16%) Windows
3 63 (15.44%) VMS
4 32 (7.84%) CentOS
4 32 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 30 (7.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 30 (7.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (6.37%) Unix
7 13 (3.19%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.23%) Debian
9 4 (0.98%) AIX
9 4 (0.98%) SUSE
9 4 (0.98%) zOS
10 3 (0.74%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (40.44%) Performance Tuning
2 119 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 116 (28.43%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (24.02%) High Availability
5 74 (18.14%) Collaborative Working
6 71 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (13.97%) Mentoring
8 54 (13.24%) Database Tuning
9 48 (11.76%) Migration
10 44 (10.78%) Customer Service
11 41 (10.05%) Performance Monitoring
12 40 (9.80%) Database Security
13 38 (9.31%) Actionable Insight
14 36 (8.82%) Storage Management
15 32 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
16 31 (7.60%) ITIL
17 30 (7.35%) Capacity Management
17 30 (7.35%) Computer Science
17 30 (7.35%) User Experience
18 23 (5.64%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (74.75%) SQL
2 141 (34.56%) T-SQL
3 65 (15.93%) PowerShell
4 32 (7.84%) Bash
5 30 (7.35%) PL/SQL
6 13 (3.19%) C#
7 9 (2.21%) Python
8 8 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.74%) COBOL
10 3 (0.74%) CQL
10 3 (0.74%) JCL
10 3 (0.74%) REXX
11 2 (0.49%) AWK
11 2 (0.49%) Java
11 2 (0.49%) sed
12 1 (0.25%) C++
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) ProC
12 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 94 (23.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 66 (16.18%) Security Cleared
3 47 (11.52%) Degree
4 38 (9.31%) Oracle Certification
5 31 (7.60%) DV Cleared
6 26 (6.37%) OCP
7 24 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (5.88%) DBS Check
8 14 (3.43%) SC Cleared
9 9 (2.21%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.72%) OCA
11 6 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.74%) CIPD
13 2 (0.49%) MCITP
13 2 (0.49%) MCSA
13 2 (0.49%) MCSE
13 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.74%) QA
4 3 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (15.93%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (3.19%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) vSphere
5 3 (0.74%) RACF
5 3 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (3.68%) Ansible
3 14 (3.43%) Foglight
4 13 (3.19%) Data Guard
5 9 (2.21%) Terraform
6 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (1.72%) Nagios
8 5 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.74%) MAINVIEW
10 3 (0.74%) Oracle Statspack
10 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.49%) SCOM
12 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 187 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 125 (30.64%) Oracle
3 32 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.17%) Commvault
5 14 (3.43%) Google
6 13 (3.19%) VMware
7 12 (2.94%) NEC
8 8 (1.96%) HP
9 7 (1.72%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.72%) ArcSight
9 7 (1.72%) RedGate
10 6 (1.47%) IBM
11 4 (0.98%) SAP
12 3 (0.74%) BMC
12 3 (0.74%) New Relic
12 3 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.74%) Veeam
13 2 (0.49%) Databricks
13 2 (0.49%) IDERA
13 2 (0.49%) IFS