DBA Jobs in the South West

Database Administrator
England > South West

The median Database Administrator salary in the South West is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 224 236
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 68 48 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.74% 0.68% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.76% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 30 21 34
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,200 £30,932
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £62,188
90th Percentile - £62,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% +3.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,284 7,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,903 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South West

DBA
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DBA in the South West

DBA
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the South West

DBA
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Gloucestershire +4 34 £57,500 +4.55%
Wiltshire 0 9 £50,500 -23.77%
Dorset -28 9 £52,500 +28.36%
Devon - 6 £57,500 -
Bristol +7 5 £57,500 - 1
Somerset +1 3 £57,500 +42.24% 1
Cornwall - 2 - -
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 West region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 66 (97.06%) SQL
2 49 (72.06%) Microsoft
3 39 (57.35%) Oracle
4 36 (52.94%) Database Tuning
5 34 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 34 (50.00%) Finance
6 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
6 33 (48.53%) Linux
7 31 (45.59%) Windows
7 31 (45.59%) PowerShell
7 31 (45.59%) Actionable Insight
8 30 (44.12%) Storage Management
8 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 30 (44.12%) Bash
8 30 (44.12%) MongoDB
8 30 (44.12%) Capacity Management
8 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 30 (44.12%) Performance Monitoring
8 30 (44.12%) Mentoring
8 30 (44.12%) User Experience
8 30 (44.12%) CentOS
8 30 (44.12%) Red Hat
9 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
10 26 (38.24%) Azure
11 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
12 20 (29.41%) Power BI
12 20 (29.41%) Power Platform
12 20 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (27.94%) T-SQL

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (4.41%) Tomcat
1 3 (4.41%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) Azure
2 20 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.94%) AWS
3 2 (2.94%) GCP
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
3 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 30 (44.12%) MongoDB
3 20 (29.41%) Power BI
4 14 (20.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (19.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (19.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (16.18%) MySQL
7 9 (13.24%) Relational Database
8 7 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (10.29%) OLTP
9 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.94%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (1.47%) DB2
11 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Git
General
1 34 (50.00%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Legal
3 2 (2.94%) Military
3 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Replication
2 7 (10.29%) Learning Management System
3 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.94%) Photography
4 1 (1.47%) Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (48.53%) Linux
2 31 (45.59%) Windows
3 30 (44.12%) CentOS
3 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2012
3 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2016
3 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (16.18%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
5 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Database Tuning
2 31 (45.59%) Actionable Insight
3 30 (44.12%) Capacity Management
3 30 (44.12%) Mentoring
3 30 (44.12%) Performance Monitoring
3 30 (44.12%) Storage Management
3 30 (44.12%) User Experience
4 20 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (20.59%) High Availability
7 12 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.29%) Security Patching
10 6 (8.82%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.82%) Configuration Management
10 6 (8.82%) Migration
10 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.35%) Customer Service
11 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (97.06%) SQL
2 31 (45.59%) PowerShell
3 30 (44.12%) Bash
4 19 (27.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.94%) C#
5 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 27 (39.71%) DV Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (14.71%) Degree
5 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.35%) DBS Check
7 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 49 (72.06%) Microsoft
2 39 (57.35%) Oracle
3 30 (44.12%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) VMware