Senior DBA Job Trends in Sunderland

Senior Database Administrator
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in Sunderland is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 3 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 5.08% 6.90% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.45% 6.98% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £50,650 - -
25th Percentile £50,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £52,625 - -
90th Percentile £53,300 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 55 86 55
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 98.85% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27 68 29
10th Percentile £29,300 £35,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £39,331 £40,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in Sunderland

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Sunderland.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies in Sunderland

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Senior 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 Sunderland region featuring Senior DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Talend
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) RedGate
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Informatica
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation

Senior DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sunderland 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) RedGate
1 2 (66.67%) Talend