SQL DBA Jobs in Wales

SQL Database Administrator
UK > Wales

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in Wales is £42,500 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 109 120 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 10 10 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.49% 0.60% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.70% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £45,188 -
90th Percentile - £51,750 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +4.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,870 1,431 1,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 85.79% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 820 1,133
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,410 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,107 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in Wales

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SQL DBA in Wales

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in Wales

SQL DBA
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the Wales 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
South Wales - 7 £57,500 -
West Wales -4 3 £42,500 +10.39%
SQL DBA
UK

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, SQL 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 Wales region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (40.00%) Replication
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (40.00%) Unix
5 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) MySQL
5 4 (40.00%) Oracle
5 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (40.00%) Database Mirroring
5 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (30.00%) Perfmon
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (30.00%) Big Data
6 3 (30.00%) Statistics

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) Database Mirroring
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Statistics
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft