Senior SQL DBA Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Senior SQL Database Administrator
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator salary in Tyne and Wear is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 72 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.45% 0.57% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.58% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £50,650 - -
25th Percentile £50,875 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £52,625 - £62,500
90th Percentile £53,300 - -
North East median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 607 1,028 405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 96.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 414 635 336
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,305 £31,125
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £38,634
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Senior SQL DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL DBA in Tyne and Wear

Senior SQL DBA
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Senior SQL DBA
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL DBA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Sunderland +6 3 £51,250 +2.50% 1
Senior SQL DBA
North East

Senior SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Senior SQL 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 SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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