Senior DBA Job Trends in Essex

Senior Database Administrator
East of England > Essex

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in Essex is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.11% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £72,500 - £30,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 775 310 724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.16% 87.32% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 480 152 607
10th Percentile £27,000 £21,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,313 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,625 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% -10.00%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Senior DBA job vacancy trend in Essex

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Essex.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Essex

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 2026, Senior 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 Essex region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Sentry
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds