DBA Jobs in the East Midlands

Database Administrator
England > East Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the East Midlands is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 156 168
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 10 37 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.78% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.82% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 10
10th Percentile £46,700 £43,750 £40,229
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £52,365
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +5.03% +6.87%
75th Percentile £50,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,600 - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,529 4,510 2,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 94.67% 88.58%
Number of salaries quoted 987 3,229 1,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the East Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for DBA in the East Midlands

DBA
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Leicestershire +46 10 £48,500 -15.65%
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 10 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (80.00%) ETL
3 8 (80.00%) Law
3 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
General
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Data Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft