DBA Jobs in the North of England

Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median Database Administrator salary in the North of England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 284 336
Rank change year-on-year -38 +52 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 16 98 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.57% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 16 83 86
10th Percentile £35,625 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,938 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +22.09%
75th Percentile £68,688 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 - £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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,575 17,299 14,797
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 95.08% 89.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,472 13,333 8,038
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.10% +6.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North East +37 9 £56,500 +7.62% 10
North West -40 6 £40,000 -27.27% 30
Yorkshire +32 1 £55,000 -4.35% 32
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 of England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
3 12 (75.00%) Azure
4 9 (56.25%) High Availability
5 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (50.00%) T-SQL
6 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
6 7 (43.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (43.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (37.50%) ETL
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 6 (37.50%) Advertising
8 5 (31.25%) Finance
8 5 (31.25%) SAN
8 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (31.25%) Degree
8 5 (31.25%) Change Data Capture
8 5 (31.25%) Nimble Storage
8 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
9 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
9 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (25.00%) MySQL
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle
10 3 (18.75%) Informatica
10 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
10 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (18.75%) Clustering
10 3 (18.75%) Open Source
10 3 (18.75%) Hedge funds

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (43.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (25.00%) MySQL
5 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
5 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (12.50%) Power BI
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (6.25%) Couchbase
7 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (37.50%) Advertising
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) High Availability
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (43.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (37.50%) ETL
5 5 (31.25%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (18.75%) Open Source
7 3 (18.75%) Storage Management
8 2 (12.50%) Analytics
8 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Data Management
8 2 (12.50%) Database Security
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (18.75%) Informatica
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) RedGate
3 3 (18.75%) Talend