DBA Job Trends in Cardiff

Database Administrator
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Database Administrator salary in Cardiff is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	72	-	55
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-4
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA	3	0	4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff	0.29%	-	0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.31%	-	0.73%
Number of salaries quoted	3	0	2
10^th Percentile	£62,000	-	£47,750
25^th Percentile	£63,125	-	£48,125
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	-	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-13.04%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£51,875
90^th Percentile	-	-	£52,250
South Wales median annual salary	£65,000	-	£48,000
% change year-on-year	-	-	-16.52%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title	976	279	549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title	95.97%	95.88%	97.17%
Number of salaries quoted	707	193	389
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,000	£30,000
25^th Percentile	£44,630	£43,750	£35,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£52,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+14.29%	+5.00%	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£73,750	£60,000	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£85,000	£75,000	£77,845
South Wales median annual salary	£55,000	£50,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	+5.26%	-5.00%

DBA Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DBA' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

DBA Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Cardiff.

DBA Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cardiff region featuring DBA in the job title.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	100.0%	3
2	Active Directory	33.3%	1
2	Analytics	33.3%	1
2	ARM Templates	33.3%	1
2	Azure	33.3%	1
2	Azure Certification	33.3%	1
2	Azure DevOps	33.3%	1
2	Azure SQL Database	33.3%	1
2	Azure Storage	33.3%	1
2	Bicep	33.3%	1
2	Business Intelligence	33.3%	1
2	Change Management	33.3%	1
2	CI/CD	33.3%	1
2	Data Modelling	33.3%	1
2	Data Protection	33.3%	1
2	Database Security	33.3%	1
2	DevOps	33.3%	1
2	Disaster Recovery	33.3%	1
2	Failover Clustering	33.3%	1
2	Flyway	33.3%	1
2	GDPR	33.3%	1
2	High Availability	33.3%	1
2	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	1
2	ISO/IEC 27001	33.3%	1
2	Microsoft	33.3%	1
2	Microsoft Certification	33.3%	1
2	Performance Monitoring	33.3%	1
2	Power BI	33.3%	1
2	Power Platform	33.3%	1
2	PowerShell	33.3%	1

DBA Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

Rank	Job Title	Share	Job Ads
1	Administrator	100.0%	3
1	Senior SQL DBA	100.0%	3