DBA Jobs in the West Midlands

Database Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 210 260
Rank change year-on-year -8 +50 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 26 72 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 1.05% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.17% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25 58 23
10th Percentile £47,000 £36,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £38,356 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,188 £56,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,250
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,673 6,157 6,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 90.03% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,102 3,374 4,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
75th Percentile £63,688 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.57% +0.83% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham -8 21 £58,750 +17.50% 4
Coventry +31 2 £41,250 -31.25% 2
Staffordshire -14 1 £57,500 +64.29%
Warwickshire - 1 £45,000 -
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 West Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 23 (88.46%) SQL
2 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 16 (61.54%) Azure
3 12 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (42.31%) Linux
4 11 (42.31%) Logistics
4 11 (42.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (38.46%) T-SQL
6 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 8 (30.77%) Replication
7 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
7 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
7 7 (26.92%) Windows
7 7 (26.92%) Power BI
7 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
7 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
7 7 (26.92%) Application Security
8 6 (23.08%) High Availability
8 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (23.08%) Supply Chain Management
8 6 (23.08%) Retail
8 6 (23.08%) Degree
8 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
9 5 (19.23%) Data Management
9 5 (19.23%) Migration
9 5 (19.23%) Security Management
9 5 (19.23%) Database Tuning
9 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
10 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (11.54%) MQSeries
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 3 (11.54%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) Broadband
3 1 (3.85%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (26.92%) Power BI
5 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (15.38%) MySQL
6 3 (11.54%) DB2
6 3 (11.54%) Looker
6 3 (11.54%) Tableau
7 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (3.85%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
8 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Retail
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Replication
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (42.31%) Logistics
3 7 (26.92%) Application Security
3 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
4 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (23.08%) High Availability
4 6 (23.08%) Supply Chain Management
5 5 (19.23%) Data Management
5 5 (19.23%) Database Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Security Management
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Data Transformation
6 4 (15.38%) Database Security
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.85%) PHP
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) IBM
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) F5