Senior Database Administrator
UK

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 834 958 1101
Rank change year-on-year +124 +143 -268
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 60 35 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.033% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.036% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 46 25 67
10th Percentile £49,236 £45,250 £42,999
25th Percentile £50,125 £50,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,500 £76,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £74,875 £120,500 £86,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,498 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% -7.83% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DBA.

Salary trend for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DBA in the UK

Senior DBA
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +140 50 £65,000 +13.04% 6
UK excluding London +2 28 £51,498 -2.83% 4
Work from Home +90 25 £67,000 +18.06% 4
London +156 24 £68,500 -15.69% 3
North of England +44 11 £50,000 -10.71%
Yorkshire +98 8 £50,000 -13.04%
East of England +27 6 £30,000 - 1
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 1
Midlands +9 3 £55,000 +10.00%
North East - 3 - -
South East - 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
West Midlands +27 1 £55,000 +10.00%
Wales +5 1 £48,000 -1.03% 1

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 29 (48.33%) MySQL
2 28 (46.67%) AWS
3 20 (33.33%) SQL
4 17 (28.33%) Oracle
5 16 (26.67%) Azure
6 14 (23.33%) SQL Server
7 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (18.33%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (18.33%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.33%) OCI
9 10 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (15.00%) Datadog
10 9 (15.00%) Terraform
10 9 (15.00%) Tech for Good
10 9 (15.00%) Observability
11 8 (13.33%) T-SQL
11 8 (13.33%) Finance
12 7 (11.67%) Foglight
12 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (11.67%) AppDynamics
12 7 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (10.00%) Database Security
13 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
13 6 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) OCI
4 9 (15.00%) Datadog
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (48.33%) MySQL
2 14 (23.33%) SQL Server
3 12 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Database
7 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.00%) DataStax
9 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (15.00%) Tech for Good
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.33%) Billing
6 2 (3.33%) Police
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.33%) Mentoring
3 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (15.00%) Observability
5 7 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (10.00%) Database Security
6 6 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (8.33%) DataOps
8 4 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (6.67%) Commercialisation
8 4 (6.67%) ITIL
8 4 (6.67%) Migration
8 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (6.67%) Statistics
9 3 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (5.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (5.00%) Resource Allocation
10 2 (3.33%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) T-SQL
3 3 (5.00%) CQL
3 3 (5.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) OCA
2 3 (5.00%) OCP
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 7 (11.67%) Foglight
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Oracle
2 7 (11.67%) AppDynamics
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) IFS
5 1 (1.67%) YouTube