DBA Job Trends in Chelmsford

Database Administrator
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Database Administrator salary in Chelmsford is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Chelmsford 1.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £62,500 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford with a recognized job title 153 75 95
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.08% 84.27% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 113 48 73
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,300 £28,501
25th Percentile £31,250 £57,281 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £48,800
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +22.95% +2.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,750 £71,499
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

DBA job vacancy trend in Chelmsford

DBA
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Chelmsford.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Chelmsford

DBA Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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 Chelmsford region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft