DBA Jobs in Leicestershire

Database Administrator
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Database Administrator salary in Leicestershire is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 97 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 10 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.40% 0.54% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.58% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £46,700 £45,750 -
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% - -
75th Percentile £50,250 £61,250 -
90th Percentile £50,600 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% - +14.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 677 1,039 751
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 93.77% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 179 582 267
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £25,201
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Leicestershire

DBA
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for DBA in Leicestershire

DBA
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leicester +46 10 £48,500 -15.65%
DBA
East Midlands

DBA Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 Leicestershire region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 10 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (80.00%) ETL
3 8 (80.00%) Law
3 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (80.00%) Data Lake
General
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Data Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft