DBA Jobs in the North West

Database Administrator
England > North West

The median Database Administrator salary in the North West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 177 233
Rank change year-on-year -52 +56 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 25 33 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 0.81% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.84% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15 27 77
10th Percentile £41,484 £41,700 £36,395
25th Percentile £43,710 £45,625 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63,125 £72,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £65,625
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,503 3,922 8,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 96.22% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,945 2,661 5,160
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for DBA in the North West

DBA
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the North West over the 6 months to 4 December 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the North West

DBA
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Manchester -25 13 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Cheshire -5 5 £60,000 +26.32% 1
Lancashire -60 2 £40,000 - 1
Merseyside +8 1 £50,000 -21.88%
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 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 West region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) Oracle
4 8 (32.00%) Oracle Database
5 7 (28.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (28.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (20.00%) Kibana
7 5 (20.00%) Server Management
7 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (16.00%) Degree
8 4 (16.00%) Business Transformation
8 4 (16.00%) Toad
8 4 (16.00%) Linux
8 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
8 4 (16.00%) IIS
8 4 (16.00%) ITIL
8 4 (16.00%) Middleware
8 4 (16.00%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (16.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (12.00%) RDBMS

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (16.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (32.00%) Oracle Database
3 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (12.00%) MySQL
5 3 (12.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
6 2 (8.00%) OLTP
6 2 (8.00%) Power BI
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.00%) Power Query
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Toad
General
1 7 (28.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Clustering
1 2 (8.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (28.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (20.00%) Server Management
4 4 (16.00%) Business Transformation
4 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.00%) Data Management
5 3 (12.00%) High Availability
6 2 (8.00%) Change Management
6 2 (8.00%) Open Source
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
7 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) MCITP
2 3 (12.00%) MCTS
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kibana
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Veeam
4 2 (8.00%) ATG
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) SAP