DBA Jobs in the North of England

Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median Database Administrator salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 340 256
Rank change year-on-year +45 -84 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 98 99 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.57% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.63% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 86 92 150
10th Percentile £45,625 £40,000 £37,495
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.91% -4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,875 £65,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% +3.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,429 15,634 17,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 89.41% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 8,294 11,110
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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
North West +32 55 £55,000 +3.77% 5
Yorkshire +60 25 £54,500 -3.96% 6
North East -2 18 £52,500 +31.25% 3
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 North of England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 74 (75.51%) SQL
2 72 (73.47%) SQL Server
3 53 (54.08%) Performance Tuning
4 51 (52.04%) Azure
4 51 (52.04%) Microsoft
5 48 (48.98%) Social Skills
6 45 (45.92%) T-SQL
6 45 (45.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (38.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 36 (36.73%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (27.55%) Finance
9 27 (27.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (27.55%) High Availability
9 27 (27.55%) Power BI
9 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
10 26 (26.53%) Oracle
11 24 (24.49%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
12 21 (21.43%) Relational Database
12 21 (21.43%) Broadband
12 21 (21.43%) VMS
13 19 (19.39%) Oracle Database
14 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (18.37%) MySQL
15 16 (16.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (16.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
16 15 (15.31%) RDBMS
16 15 (15.31%) Commvault
17 14 (14.29%) Degree

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.06%) CICS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.04%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
3 14 (14.29%) AWS
4 11 (11.22%) OCI
5 3 (3.06%) PaaS
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (73.47%) SQL Server
2 45 (45.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (27.55%) Power BI
4 21 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 19 (19.39%) Oracle Database
6 18 (18.37%) MySQL
7 16 (16.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (16.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (15.31%) RDBMS
9 12 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
11 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
11 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (6.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (5.10%) DB2
12 5 (5.10%) Oracle Database 12c
13 3 (3.06%) Easytrieve
14 2 (2.04%) MariaDB
14 2 (2.04%) OLTP
15 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.55%) Finance
3 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Back Office
5 5 (5.10%) Local Government
5 5 (5.10%) Police
6 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.04%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) Middleware
1 3 (3.06%) XML
2 1 (1.02%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.16%) Replication
4 6 (6.12%) Clustering
4 6 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.12%) PMI
5 5 (5.10%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.06%) NHS
6 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.43%) VMS
2 8 (8.16%) Unix
3 5 (5.10%) Linux
4 3 (3.06%) Windows
4 3 (3.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Performance Tuning
2 38 (38.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (36.73%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (27.55%) High Availability
5 24 (24.49%) Collaborative Working
6 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
8 13 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.22%) Computer Science
9 11 (11.22%) Customer Service
9 11 (11.22%) Database Security
9 11 (11.22%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.20%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (10.20%) Database Tuning
10 10 (10.20%) Server Patching
11 8 (8.16%) Problem Management
12 7 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
12 7 (7.14%) ITIL
12 7 (7.14%) Migration
12 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (75.51%) SQL
2 45 (45.92%) T-SQL
3 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.16%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.06%) COBOL
5 3 (3.06%) JCL
5 3 (3.06%) REXX
6 2 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (27.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (14.29%) Degree
3 13 (13.27%) Oracle Certification
4 11 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.18%) DBS Check
6 8 (8.16%) OCP
6 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
7 6 (6.12%) PMI Certification
8 3 (3.06%) CIPD
8 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.06%) RACF
2 3 (3.06%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) MAINVIEW
2 2 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) Foglight
3 1 (1.02%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 51 (52.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (26.53%) Oracle
3 15 (15.31%) Commvault
4 5 (5.10%) NEC
5 3 (3.06%) BMC
5 3 (3.06%) IBM
5 3 (3.06%) New Relic
5 3 (3.06%) RedGate
5 3 (3.06%) VMware
6 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.02%) YouTube