Senior DBA Jobs in England

Senior Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 897 1034
Rank change year-on-year +107 +137 -223
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 50 30 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.032% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.035% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 37 22 59
10th Percentile £49,236 £50,925 £42,999
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,750 £76,250 £69,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £134,375 £85,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior DBA in England.

Salary trend for Senior DBA in England

Senior DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DBA in England

Senior 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 Senior DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London +134 24 £68,500 -28.83%
North of England +50 11 £50,000 -11.89%
Yorkshire +81 8 £50,000 -13.04%
East of England +19 6 £30,000 -
Midlands +16 3 £55,000 +10.00% 1
North East - 3 - -
South East - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
West Midlands +17 1 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Senior DBA
UK

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 26 (52.00%) MySQL
1 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) SQL
3 12 (24.00%) Oracle
3 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (22.00%) Azure
5 10 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (18.00%) Datadog
6 9 (18.00%) Terraform
6 9 (18.00%) Observability
6 9 (18.00%) Tech for Good
6 9 (18.00%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (16.00%) Finance
7 8 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (14.00%) T-SQL
9 6 (12.00%) OCI
10 5 (10.00%) DataOps
10 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
10 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
10 5 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (10.00%) MongoDB

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) Datadog
4 6 (12.00%) OCI
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (52.00%) MySQL
2 10 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.00%) DataStax
6 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Tech for Good
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (18.00%) Observability
3 8 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (10.00%) DataOps
4 5 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (8.00%) Commercialisation
5 4 (8.00%) ITIL
5 4 (8.00%) Migration
5 4 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (8.00%) Statistics
6 3 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.00%) Database Security
6 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.00%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (4.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (6.00%) CQL
3 3 (6.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.00%) OCA
3 1 (2.00%) OCP
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Terraform
2 5 (10.00%) Foglight
3 4 (8.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) IFS
4 1 (2.00%) YouTube