DBA Jobs in the South East

Database Administrator
England > South East

The median Database Administrator salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 342 286
Rank change year-on-year +42 -56 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 12 59 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.35% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.37% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7 49 101
10th Percentile £53,750 £38,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +8.49% +0.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £60,000
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,398 15,863 12,949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.96% 94.01% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 11,342 8,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the South East.

Salary trend for DBA in the South East

DBA
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DBA in the South East

DBA
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +38 9 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Oxfordshire +26 4 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Hampshire +65 1 £50,000 -13.04% 2
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 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 South East region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) SQL
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (41.67%) MySQL
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) CRM
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (25.00%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (16.67%) Online Games
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (16.67%) Games
4 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Replication
4 2 (16.67%) Clustering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (41.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (8.33%) Couchbase
4 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Online Games
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) CRM
1 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
2 2 (16.67%) High Availability
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Data Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Data Security
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Rollbar