DBA Job Trends in Reading

Database Administrator
Berkshire > Reading

The median Database Administrator salary in Reading is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 68 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.12% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% +25.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £41,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +51.52% -21.43% +14.75%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 765 420 1,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 86.24% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 480 226 979
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,375 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.37% -0.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £83,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DBA' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

DBA job vacancy trend in Reading

DBA
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Reading.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in Reading

DBA Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 24 March 2026, DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Reading region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Graylog
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) PMI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Graylog
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform