SQL Server DBA Jobs in England

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Server Database Administrator salary in England is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 825 898 1023
Rank change year-on-year +73 +125 -240
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 12 42 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.046% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.050% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 10 42 114
10th Percentile £57,500 £43,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +51.11% +9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £85,000 £73,375
UK median annual salary £82,500 £52,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +57.14% +2.44% +2.50%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
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 £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

SQL Server DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server DBA
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server DBA in England

SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +126 10 £85,000 +6.25% 4
North of England +50 1 - -
West Midlands +18 1 £60,000 +20.00%
Midlands +7 1 £60,000 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
SQL Server DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, SQL Server 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 SQL Server DBA in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (75.00%) Clustering
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (75.00%) T-SQL
3 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (66.67%) Finance
3 8 (66.67%) High Availability
4 7 (58.33%) ArcSight
4 7 (58.33%) GitHub
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (58.33%) Database Security
4 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (58.33%) Ansible
4 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (58.33%) Task Automation
4 7 (58.33%) Power BI
4 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
4 7 (58.33%) Foglight
4 7 (58.33%) Business Continuity
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
4 7 (58.33%) Git
4 7 (58.33%) Windows
4 7 (58.33%) Change Management
4 7 (58.33%) HP
4 7 (58.33%) Nagios
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) Azure

SQL Server 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) GitHub
1 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (58.33%) Power BI
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (58.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (66.67%) High Availability
2 7 (58.33%) Business Continuity
2 7 (58.33%) Change Management
2 7 (58.33%) Database Security
2 7 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (58.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Database Mirroring
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) ETL
3 1 (8.33%) Fintech
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C#
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Foglight
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 7 (58.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) ArcSight
1 7 (58.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft