DBA Jobs in the Midlands

Database Administrator
England > Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the Midlands is £48,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 248 239
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 16 74 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.24% 0.59% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.62% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16 57 65
10th Percentile - £47,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £53,750 £39,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £65,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 6,261 11,918 8,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.53% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 8,778 4,580
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,930 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
East Midlands +11 10 £48,500 -11.82% 1
West Midlands +38 6 £60,000 +2.13% 6
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (62.50%) Data Structures
3 10 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (62.50%) Reverse Engineering
3 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 10 (62.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (62.50%) Analytics
3 10 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (62.50%) Data Analysis
4 9 (56.25%) Finance
4 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
5 8 (50.00%) ETL
5 8 (50.00%) Law
5 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
5 8 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (50.00%) Data Lake
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
6 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
6 6 (37.50%) Data Management
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (37.50%) PL/SQL
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle

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:

Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
General
1 14 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 8 (50.00%) Law
4 4 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Unix
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Analytics
1 10 (62.50%) Data Analysis
1 10 (62.50%) Reverse Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Data Management
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Database Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Data Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 6 (37.50%) PL/SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) OCA
1 5 (31.25%) OCP
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle