DBA Jobs in the Midlands

Database Administrator
England > Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the Midlands is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2024.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 193 255
Rank change year-on-year -59 +62 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 25 55 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.98% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 1.02% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9 46 79
10th Percentile £58,239 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -4.76% +9.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,000
90th Percentile - £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £59,125 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.76% +0.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 8,857 5,404 10,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 96.23% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,357 3,943 6,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for DBA in the Midlands

DBA
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the Midlands

DBA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
West Midlands -35 23 £61,250 +22.50% 3
East Midlands -54 2 - - 5
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 October 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (68.00%) SQL
3 15 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (44.00%) Azure
5 10 (40.00%) Oracle
5 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (36.00%) Oracle Database
6 9 (36.00%) Unix
6 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
7 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (32.00%) ITIL
7 8 (32.00%) Police
7 8 (32.00%) Customer Service
8 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
8 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
8 7 (28.00%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database 12c
8 7 (28.00%) NEC Housing
8 7 (28.00%) Driving Licence
8 7 (28.00%) Back Office
8 7 (28.00%) NEC
8 7 (28.00%) Finance
8 7 (28.00%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (28.00%) Problem Management
8 7 (28.00%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (28.00%) Local Government
9 5 (20.00%) Tableau
9 5 (20.00%) Windows
9 5 (20.00%) T-SQL

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle Database
3 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 5 (20.00%) Power BI
5 5 (20.00%) Tableau
6 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (16.00%) Looker
7 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
7 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (8.00%) MySQL
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (4.00%) DB2
9 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
9 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
9 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Police
4 7 (28.00%) Back Office
4 7 (28.00%) Finance
4 7 (28.00%) Local Government
4 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Driving Licence
1 7 (28.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Unix
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 8 (32.00%) ITIL
3 7 (28.00%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (28.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.00%) Logistics
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Security Management
6 2 (8.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (8.00%) Data Management
6 2 (8.00%) Database Security
6 2 (8.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
6 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 7 (28.00%) NEC
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) IBM