DBA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 492 414
Rank change year-on-year -6 -78 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 136 64 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 116 49 279
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,120 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,088 30,221 67,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.44% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 47,187 17,297 47,231
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,958 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DBA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for DBA job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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
North of England -3 57 £50,051 -4.67% 13
North West +39 41 £55,000 +46.67% 11
Midlands -18 29 £60,000 +23.71% 4
West Midlands -4 22 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South East -26 21 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Yorkshire -21 13 £43,750 -20.45% 2
East of England - 10 £58,750 -
South West -54 9 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Scotland +13 8 £50,000 +5.26% 1
East Midlands -18 7 £60,000 +23.71% 1
North East -57 3 £42,500 -19.05%
Wales - 2 - -
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 74 (54.41%) SQL
2 70 (51.47%) SQL Server
3 38 (27.94%) Oracle
4 31 (22.79%) MySQL
5 29 (21.32%) High Availability
6 28 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (18.38%) Azure
7 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.65%) Linux
8 24 (17.65%) Oracle Database
9 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
11 16 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (11.76%) Shell Script
12 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
12 15 (11.03%) Windows
13 14 (10.29%) CI/CD
14 13 (9.56%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (9.56%) ETL
15 12 (8.82%) AWS
15 12 (8.82%) T-SQL
16 11 (8.09%) DV Cleared
16 11 (8.09%) Windows Server
17 10 (7.35%) Analytics
17 10 (7.35%) Ansible
17 10 (7.35%) Database Security
17 10 (7.35%) Disaster Recovery
18 9 (6.62%) Agile
18 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
18 9 (6.62%) DevOps

DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.74%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.38%) Azure
2 12 (8.82%) AWS
3 9 (6.62%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.68%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.74%) dbt
6 1 (0.74%) GCP
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (51.47%) SQL Server
2 31 (22.79%) MySQL
3 24 (17.65%) Oracle Database
4 16 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.88%) Power BI
7 6 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.21%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.74%) MS Access
12 1 (0.74%) Vitess
General
1 12 (8.82%) Law
2 9 (6.62%) Finance
3 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.94%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.21%) Legal
6 2 (1.47%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Billing
7 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.47%) ODBC
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.12%) Replication
2 5 (3.68%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.65%) Linux
2 15 (11.03%) Windows
3 11 (8.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.68%) Unix
6 3 (2.21%) AIX
7 2 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.32%) High Availability
2 28 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
3 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (10.29%) CI/CD
6 13 (9.56%) ETL
7 10 (7.35%) Analytics
7 10 (7.35%) Database Security
7 10 (7.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (6.62%) Agile
8 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (6.62%) DevOps
8 9 (6.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (5.88%) Business Continuity
9 8 (5.88%) Migration
10 7 (5.15%) Logistics
11 6 (4.41%) Database Tuning
11 6 (4.41%) Incident Response
12 5 (3.68%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (3.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (54.41%) SQL
2 16 (11.76%) Shell Script
3 12 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.47%) C#
5 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.47%) Python
6 1 (0.74%) Bash
6 1 (0.74%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.09%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.94%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) OCP
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) QA
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) Ansible
2 7 (5.15%) Progress Chef
2 7 (5.15%) Puppet
3 6 (4.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (4.41%) Terraform
4 5 (3.68%) Data Guard
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.47%) Grafana
5 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.74%) Argo
6 1 (0.74%) Graylog
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 38 (27.94%) Oracle
2 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.21%) RedGate
3 3 (2.21%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.47%) Sybase
5 1 (0.74%) Databricks
5 1 (0.74%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) JD Edwards
5 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Teradata