DBA Job Trends in the Midlands

Database Administrator
England > Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 221 261
Rank change year-on-year -14 +40 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 32 14 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 19
10th Percentile £26,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -20.82% +22.50%
75th Percentile - £56,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,150 £58,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 13,540 5,268 10,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 91.22% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,444 3,389 6,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

DBA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the Midlands

DBA
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 2026. 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 -6 24 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East Midlands -24 8 £60,000 +23.71% 2
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 August 2026, 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 Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.75%) Database Tuning
4 6 (18.75%) High Availability
5 5 (15.63%) Database Security
5 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (12.50%) AWS
6 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.50%) ETL
6 4 (12.50%) GDPR
6 4 (12.50%) Logistics
6 4 (12.50%) Oracle
6 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.38%) AI
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (9.38%) Analytics
7 3 (9.38%) Business Continuity
7 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (9.38%) ERP
7 3 (9.38%) Linux
7 3 (9.38%) Migration
7 3 (9.38%) MySQL

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) dbt
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Solaris
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (18.75%) Database Tuning
2 6 (18.75%) High Availability
3 5 (15.63%) Database Security
3 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (12.50%) ETL
4 4 (12.50%) Logistics
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) AI
5 3 (9.38%) Analytics
5 3 (9.38%) Business Continuity
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (9.38%) ERP
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Server Monitoring
5 3 (9.38%) Statistics
5 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
2 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) RedGate
2 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
2 2 (6.25%) Sybase