SQL DBA Jobs in the North of England

SQL Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 383 340
Rank change year-on-year +47 -43 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 52 61 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.38% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 100
10th Percentile £50,750 £41,100 £35,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +32.53% -12.63%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £57,813
90th Percentile - £62,500 £61,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

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 16,276 15,873 17,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 89.53% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,610 8,359 11,247
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +20 31 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire +77 12 £57,500 +4.55%
North East +3 9 £57,500 +4.55%
SQL DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) SQL
2 49 (94.23%) SQL Server
3 47 (90.38%) Azure
4 41 (78.85%) T-SQL
4 41 (78.85%) Microsoft
5 40 (76.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (59.62%) Social Skills
7 28 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (51.92%) Power Platform
8 27 (51.92%) Power BI
8 27 (51.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (51.92%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
10 21 (40.38%) Virtual Machines
10 21 (40.38%) High Availability
10 21 (40.38%) Broadband
10 21 (40.38%) VMS
11 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (30.77%) PowerShell
12 15 (28.85%) Commvault
13 14 (26.92%) Finance
14 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
16 10 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
16 10 (19.23%) Server Patching
16 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
16 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (19.23%) RDBMS

SQL 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:

Cloud Services
1 47 (90.38%) Azure
2 27 (51.92%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.77%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (94.23%) SQL Server
2 40 (76.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (51.92%) Power BI
4 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (19.23%) RDBMS
5 10 (19.23%) Relational Database
6 6 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (7.69%) MySQL
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.92%) MS Access
9 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 31 (59.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (40.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (51.92%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
3 24 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (40.38%) High Availability
5 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
7 10 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.23%) Server Patching
8 7 (13.46%) Customer Service
8 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (11.54%) Migration
10 5 (9.62%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (7.69%) Database Tuning
11 4 (7.69%) Task Automation
12 3 (5.77%) Computer Science
12 3 (5.77%) Database Security
13 2 (3.85%) Agile
14 1 (1.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) SQL
2 41 (78.85%) T-SQL
3 16 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (11.54%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 41 (78.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.85%) Commvault
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Veeam
4 1 (1.92%) VMware