Senior DBA Jobs in England

Senior Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 793 884
Rank change year-on-year +118 +91 +223
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 8 49 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.017% 0.055% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.059% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 8 36 29
10th Percentile £52,125 £49,236 £52,900
25th Percentile £59,063 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,625 £74,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £75,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
London +99 3 £95,000 +38.69%
South East +89 2 £70,000 +45.83% 1
North of England +32 2 £53,125 +6.25% 2
Yorkshire +55 1 £55,000 +10.00%
North East +46 1 £51,250 - 2
Senior DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Replication
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) MySQL
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) Clustering
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Change Data Capture
4 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Online Games
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (25.00%) Redis
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (25.00%) Games
5 2 (25.00%) ClickHouse

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 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (25.00%) ClickHouse
4 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (25.00%) Redis
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Replication
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Change Data Capture
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Development
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) OCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) RedGate
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Talend