SQL Server DBA Jobs in England

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Server Database Administrator salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 808 909 1024
Rank change year-on-year +101 +115 -226
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 15 41 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.044% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.048% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 114
10th Percentile - £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% +12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £62,188
90th Percentile - £85,000 £80,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £53,750 £51,250
% change year-on-year +48.84% +4.88% +2.50%

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 80,480 84,673 126,830
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,246 53,649 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

SQL Server DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server DBA in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +132 13 £85,000 +6.25% 6
North of England +34 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 £60,000 +20.00%
Midlands -10 1 £60,000 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
SQL Server DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (73.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 11 (73.33%) T-SQL
3 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (60.00%) Clustering
4 8 (53.33%) Business Continuity
4 8 (53.33%) Change Management
4 8 (53.33%) Windows
4 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
4 8 (53.33%) High Availability
5 7 (46.67%) ArcSight
5 7 (46.67%) GitHub
5 7 (46.67%) Foglight
5 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (46.67%) Git
5 7 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (46.67%) Ansible
5 7 (46.67%) Database Security
5 7 (46.67%) Power BI
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (46.67%) Task Automation
5 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
5 7 (46.67%) SQL
5 7 (46.67%) HP
5 7 (46.67%) Nagios
5 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD

SQL Server 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 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) GitHub
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (73.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (46.67%) Power BI
4 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (53.33%) Business Continuity
2 8 (53.33%) Change Management
2 8 (53.33%) High Availability
3 7 (46.67%) Database Security
3 7 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (46.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (6.67%) Database Mirroring
6 1 (6.67%) Fintech
6 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.67%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) T-SQL
2 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
1 7 (46.67%) Foglight
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 7 (46.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) ArcSight
1 7 (46.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) VMware