DBA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Database Administrator
South East > Thames Valley

The median Database Administrator salary in the Thames Valley is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 233 244
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 28 24 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 17
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,719 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,375 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +2.86% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61,875 £55,281 £52,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £55,375 £54,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +14.58% +1.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,397 5,556 6,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.95% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,577 3,236 4,182
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the Thames Valley

DBA
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Oxfordshire +22 13 £60,000 +33.33%
Berkshire +22 9 £52,500 +4.22%
Buckinghamshire -22 6 £43,750 -17.45% 1
DBA
South East

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 23 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 Thames Valley region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 18 (64.29%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 11 (39.29%) T-SQL
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (35.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (35.71%) Power BI
5 9 (32.14%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (32.14%) Windows
6 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 7 (25.00%) ETL
7 7 (25.00%) Linux
7 7 (25.00%) Azure
8 6 (21.43%) High Availability
8 6 (21.43%) Degree
8 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (21.43%) Oracle
9 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (17.86%) Clustering
9 5 (17.86%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (17.86%) .NET
9 5 (17.86%) C#
9 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
9 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
10 4 (14.29%) Computer Science

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Broadband
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (35.71%) Power BI
3 7 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (14.29%) MySQL
5 4 (14.29%) SAP HANA
6 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.71%) DB2
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (7.14%) SSDT
7 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
8 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.57%) Mercurial
1 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) XML
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Clustering
2 4 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 7 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (14.29%) AIX
3 4 (14.29%) VMS
4 2 (7.14%) SUSE
4 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (25.00%) ETL
3 7 (25.00%) Migration
4 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (21.43%) High Availability
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) Agile
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) ERP
7 3 (10.71%) ITIL
7 3 (10.71%) Release Management
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity
8 2 (7.14%) Document Management
8 2 (7.14%) Problem Management
8 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) SQL
2 11 (39.29%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.86%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.29%) OCP
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) MCITP
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) RedGate
5 2 (7.14%) IFS
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) VMware