SQL DBA Jobs in Sunderland

SQL Database Administrator
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in Sunderland is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 8.33% 0.68% -
As % of the Job Titles category 8.93% 0.69% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £50,800 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +57.53%

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 56 144 59
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 98.63% 69.41%
Number of salaries quoted 31 129 31
10th Percentile - £32,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,550 £70,600
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in Sunderland

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in Sunderland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in Sunderland.

Salary trend for SQL DBA in Sunderland

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, 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 Sunderland region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) Informatica
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (80.00%) RedGate
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Talend
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (80.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (60.00%) Advertising
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (20.00%) Physical Data Model

SQL 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (60.00%) Advertising
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Informatica
1 4 (80.00%) RedGate
1 4 (80.00%) Talend