DBA Jobs in the East Midlands

Database Administrator
England > East Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 163 168
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 42 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.97% 0.35% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.40% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 32 9 25
10th Percentile £44,075 £36,208 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £51,250
90th Percentile - - £54,500
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
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,086 2,521 3,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 88.12% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,987 1,392 2,212
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram 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 26 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
Nottinghamshire -2 22 £57,500 +6.48%
Northamptonshire +4 8 £53,750 - 2
Leicestershire - 6 £57,500 -
Derbyshire +18 5 £50,000 -4.52% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £57,500 -
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 East Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 31 (73.81%) SQL
2 27 (64.29%) Azure
3 26 (61.90%) Microsoft
4 22 (52.38%) Linux
4 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
5 21 (50.00%) Oracle
6 20 (47.62%) Oracle Database
7 18 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (33.33%) OCP
8 14 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
10 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (26.19%) AWS
11 11 (26.19%) Database Security
12 10 (23.81%) Power BI
12 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
13 9 (21.43%) GCP
13 9 (21.43%) Oracle RMAN
13 9 (21.43%) Oracle RAC
13 9 (21.43%) Data Guard
14 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (19.05%) Windows
14 8 (19.05%) DevOps
15 7 (16.67%) Relational Database
15 7 (16.67%) OCI
15 7 (16.67%) OCA

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) AWS
3 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 9 (21.43%) GCP
5 7 (16.67%) OCI
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 20 (47.62%) Oracle Database
3 10 (23.81%) Power BI
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (16.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (14.29%) MariaDB
7 4 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (9.52%) Metadata
8 3 (7.14%) MySQL
8 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.76%) CouchDB
9 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.76%) Ingres
9 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) German Language
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (52.38%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Windows
3 6 (14.29%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) VMS
5 2 (4.76%) CentOS
5 2 (4.76%) Debian
5 2 (4.76%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.19%) Database Security
5 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 7 (16.67%) Migration
7 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 6 (14.29%) Patch Management
7 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Data Security
8 5 (11.90%) Performance Metrics
9 4 (9.52%) Benchmarking
9 4 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (9.52%) Customer Service
9 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (9.52%) High Availability
10 3 (7.14%) Data Engineering
10 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (73.81%) SQL
2 6 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (4.76%) AWK
3 2 (4.76%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (4.76%) sed
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) OCP
1 14 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (16.67%) OCA
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.14%) DBS Check
5 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.76%) Degree
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Data Guard
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Statspack
3 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 26 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 21 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) VMware
4 2 (4.76%) Veeam