DBA Jobs in Leeds

Database Administrator
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Database Administrator salary in Leeds is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 121 138
Rank change year-on-year +30 +17 +43
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a DBA 1 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.098% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.21% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £67,875 £46,250
25th Percentile - £68,438 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +31.82% +27.91%
75th Percentile - £76,250 £60,625
90th Percentile - - £62,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £72,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -37.93% +39.42% +20.93%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 979 1,937 2,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 95.80% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 618 1,285 1,341
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,873 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,617 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.23% -9.09% +4.76%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Leeds

DBA
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Leeds

DBA Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 27 August 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL