DBA Job Trends in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 537 445
Rank change year-on-year -25 -92 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 88 86 387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.22% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.24% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 69 67 332
10th Percentile £43,400 £40,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 60,440 35,628 70,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.54% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,507 21,195 55,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DBA job vacancy trend in England

DBA
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in England

DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for DBA in England

DBA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
London +18 27 £60,000 -0.83% 17
North of England -37 22 £51,000 -11.30% 17
Midlands -9 20 £48,000 -12.73% 5
West Midlands +8 12 £45,000 -25.00% 4
North West -2 10 £50,000 -6.98% 12
South East -14 9 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Midlands -34 8 £48,500 +17.58% 1
North East -12 6 £60,000 -
South West -24 6 £72,500 +31.82% 1
Yorkshire -39 6 £45,000 -3.23% 5
East of England -4 4 £62,500 +21.95% 5
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 58 (65.91%) SQL Server
2 56 (63.64%) SQL
3 31 (35.23%) Azure
3 31 (35.23%) Microsoft
3 31 (35.23%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (27.27%) High Availability
5 22 (25.00%) Oracle
6 21 (23.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (22.73%) T-SQL
8 19 (21.59%) Oracle Database
9 17 (19.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (18.18%) ETL
10 16 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (15.91%) Migration
11 14 (15.91%) MySQL
11 14 (15.91%) Windows
12 13 (14.77%) Analytics
12 13 (14.77%) Linux
12 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.50%) Python
14 11 (12.50%) Windows Server
15 10 (11.36%) AWS
15 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
15 10 (11.36%) SaaS
15 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (10.23%) Agile
16 9 (10.23%) Data Guard
17 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 8 (9.09%) ITIL

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.14%) IIS
1 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (3.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.23%) Azure
2 10 (11.36%) AWS
2 10 (11.36%) SaaS
3 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.27%) GitHub
5 2 (2.27%) IaaS
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) SAN
2 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (65.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (21.59%) Oracle Database
3 17 (19.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (15.91%) MySQL
6 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (11.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
9 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database 11g
9 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database 10g
10 4 (4.55%) Power BI
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.27%) Big Data
11 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (2.27%) Informix
11 2 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Law
4 3 (3.41%) Banking
4 3 (3.41%) Legal
5 2 (2.27%) Advertising
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) German Language
6 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.14%) Laravel
2 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Replication
2 12 (13.64%) Clustering
3 10 (11.36%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.55%) Hedge funds
5 4 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.41%) NHS
6 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.27%) IoT
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Windows
2 13 (14.77%) Linux
3 11 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.95%) Unix
5 6 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.68%) AIX
6 5 (5.68%) VMS
7 3 (3.41%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Performance Tuning
2 24 (27.27%) High Availability
3 21 (23.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (18.18%) ETL
5 14 (15.91%) Migration
6 13 (14.77%) Analytics
7 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.23%) Agile
9 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.09%) ITIL
10 7 (7.95%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.95%) DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) Reverse Engineering
10 7 (7.95%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.82%) Database Migration
11 6 (6.82%) Runbook
12 5 (5.68%) Change Management
12 5 (5.68%) Database Security
12 5 (5.68%) Decision-Making
13 4 (4.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (63.64%) SQL
2 20 (22.73%) T-SQL
3 11 (12.50%) Python
4 10 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.68%) Bash
6 5 (5.68%) Korn
7 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.27%) Bicep
8 2 (2.27%) C
8 2 (2.27%) C#
8 2 (2.27%) Java
8 2 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (5.68%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.14%) OCP
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Clusterware
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Data Guard
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (6.82%) Terraform
3 5 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Nagios
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.41%) Argo
5 3 (3.41%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.27%) Ansible
6 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (1.14%) Graylog
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 31 (35.23%) Microsoft
2 22 (25.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) IBM
4 3 (3.41%) Temenos
5 2 (2.27%) EMC
5 2 (2.27%) HP
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
5 2 (2.27%) RedGate
5 2 (2.27%) Talend
6 1 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Delphix
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Intel
6 1 (1.14%) New Relic
6 1 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.14%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.14%) Sybase