DBA Jobs in the North West

Database Administrator
England > North West

The median Database Administrator salary in the North West is £55,000 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 234 265 204
Rank change year-on-year +31 -61 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 54 35 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.44% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.50% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 48 32 76
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £36,375
25th Percentile £51,188 £45,313 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £62,375 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 9,205 7,031 9,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.07% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,083 4,084 5,495
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,700 £81,425 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North West.

Salary trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the North West

DBA
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North West 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
Manchester +34 25 £56,250 +12.50% 3
Merseyside +25 19 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Lancashire -16 5 £51,000 -3.77% 1
Cumbria - 3 £57,500 -
Cheshire -12 2 £57,500 -
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 30 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 North West region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 43 (79.63%) SQL Server
2 42 (77.78%) SQL
3 32 (59.26%) Microsoft
3 32 (59.26%) Azure
4 30 (55.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (53.70%) T-SQL
6 26 (48.15%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (44.44%) Finance
8 21 (38.89%) Relational Database
9 19 (35.19%) High Availability
9 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
9 19 (35.19%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (27.78%) Commvault
11 15 (27.78%) RDBMS
11 15 (27.78%) PowerShell
12 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (25.93%) Power Platform
12 14 (25.93%) Power BI
13 12 (22.22%) Broadband
13 12 (22.22%) VMS
13 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
13 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
13 12 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (20.37%) Proactive Monitoring
15 10 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
15 10 (18.52%) Server Patching

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (5.56%) CICS
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) Azure
2 14 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (79.63%) SQL Server
2 30 (55.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (38.89%) Relational Database
4 15 (27.78%) RDBMS
5 14 (25.93%) Power BI
6 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
8 7 (12.96%) Oracle Database
9 6 (11.11%) MySQL
9 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
10 5 (9.26%) DB2
11 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database 12c
11 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (5.56%) Easytrieve
12 3 (5.56%) MariaDB
12 3 (5.56%) OLTP
13 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (1.85%) MS Access
14 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (44.44%) Finance
2 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Back Office
5 4 (7.41%) Local Government
5 4 (7.41%) Police
6 2 (3.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Cloud Native
1 10 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (14.81%) Replication
3 6 (11.11%) Clustering
3 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (11.11%) PMI
4 4 (7.41%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) VMS
2 6 (11.11%) Unix
3 5 (9.26%) Linux
4 3 (5.56%) zOS
5 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (35.19%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (35.19%) High Availability
3 18 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (20.37%) Proactive Monitoring
6 10 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 10 (18.52%) Server Patching
7 7 (12.96%) Database Tuning
8 6 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 6 (11.11%) ITIL
8 6 (11.11%) Performance Testing
8 6 (11.11%) Problem Management
9 5 (9.26%) Change Management
10 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (77.78%) SQL
2 29 (53.70%) T-SQL
3 15 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.56%) COBOL
4 3 (5.56%) JCL
4 3 (5.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.56%) RACF
2 3 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) MAINVIEW
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (27.78%) Commvault
3 9 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) NEC
5 3 (5.56%) BMC
5 3 (5.56%) IBM
6 2 (3.70%) VMware