DBA Jobs in the North East

Database Administrator
England > North East

The median Database Administrator salary in the North East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 95 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 7 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.87% 0.95% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.00% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £46,400 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £61,250 £47,672
90th Percentile £82,500 - -
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
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 725 1,805 1,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 95.76% 79.97%
Number of salaries quoted 396 1,448 601
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £26,438 £35,815 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £66,285 £62,624 £60,899
90th Percentile £76,636 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North East

DBA
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for DBA in the North East

DBA
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DBA in the North East

DBA
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Tyne and Wear +29 7 £60,000 +14.29% 4
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 North East region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (71.43%) Change Data Capture
3 5 (71.43%) Nimble Storage
3 5 (71.43%) SAN
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Advertising
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
5 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (42.86%) Hedge funds
6 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (28.57%) Informatica
6 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (28.57%) ITIL
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
6 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (28.57%) MySQL
6 2 (28.57%) QA
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (71.43%) Advertising
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (71.43%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
6 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
6 2 (28.57%) ITIL
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
7 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Nimble Storage
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Informatica
3 2 (28.57%) RedGate
3 2 (28.57%) Talend
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle