DBA Jobs in the South East

Database Administrator
England > South East

The median Database Administrator salary in the South East is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 288 371
Rank change year-on-year -56 +83 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 57 122 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.81% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.90% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47 106 86
10th Percentile £37,750 £32,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +12.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,969 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £60,000 £74,500
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,633 13,568 19,141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 90.53% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,524 12,657
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Salary trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the South East

DBA
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +22 27 £57,500 +16.46% 3
Kent 0 13 £62,500 +53.37% 1
Oxfordshire +23 12 £62,500 +38.89%
Berkshire +22 9 £52,500 +4.22% 2
Hampshire -25 9 £57,500 +69.12% 5
Buckinghamshire -17 6 £43,750 -17.45% 1
Surrey +12 5 £57,500 -4.17%
West Sussex +29 1 £42,500 -29.17% 1
East Sussex -27 1 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Sussex - 1 £35,000 -
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 45 (78.95%) SQL
2 35 (61.40%) SQL Server
3 30 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (52.63%) Azure
4 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
5 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
6 24 (42.11%) Power BI
6 24 (42.11%) Power Platform
7 22 (38.60%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (38.60%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (38.60%) T-SQL
8 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (35.09%) High Availability
8 20 (35.09%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (28.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (28.07%) Virtual Machines
9 16 (28.07%) Broadband
9 16 (28.07%) VMS
10 15 (26.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (21.05%) Oracle
12 11 (19.30%) Migration
12 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
13 10 (17.54%) Management Information System
13 10 (17.54%) Capacity Planning
14 8 (14.04%) Database Optimisation
14 8 (14.04%) Oracle Database
14 8 (14.04%) GCP
14 8 (14.04%) AWS
14 8 (14.04%) SQL Server Integration Services

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
3 8 (14.04%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.07%) Broadband
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (61.40%) SQL Server
2 24 (42.11%) Power BI
3 16 (28.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (26.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (14.04%) Oracle Database
5 8 (14.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (8.77%) MySQL
7 4 (7.02%) SAP HANA
7 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (5.26%) DB2
8 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.51%) Data Hub
9 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.51%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (3.51%) SSDT
9 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.75%) Liquibase
1 1 (1.75%) Mercurial
1 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) .NET
2 3 (5.26%) XML
3 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.51%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Clustering
3 5 (8.77%) Replication
4 2 (3.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) VMS
2 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 4 (7.02%) AIX
4 2 (3.51%) SUSE
4 2 (3.51%) Unix
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (38.60%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (38.60%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (35.09%) Collaborative Working
3 20 (35.09%) High Availability
4 11 (19.30%) Migration
4 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.54%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.04%) Data Protection
6 8 (14.04%) Data Security
6 8 (14.04%) Data Validation
6 8 (14.04%) Database Optimisation
6 8 (14.04%) Validation
7 7 (12.28%) Data Migration
7 7 (12.28%) ETL
7 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.02%) Data Management
9 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (78.95%) SQL
2 22 (38.60%) T-SQL
3 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.77%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.02%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) Python
6 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
3 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.02%) OCP
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (5.26%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) MCITP
6 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) Oracle
3 8 (14.04%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) SAP
5 3 (5.26%) RedGate
6 2 (3.51%) IFS
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) VMware