DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 360 463
Rank change year-on-year -64 +103 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 302 374 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.78% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.87% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 210 301 401
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,448
25th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DBA 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -9 77 £55,000 - 6
South West +13 51 £52,500 -0.38% 4
Midlands -41 48 £57,500 +15.00% 1
South East -49 43 £58,313 +6.02% 3
North West -6 42 £55,000 +10.00% 5
West Midlands -15 31 £61,250 +22.50% 1
Scotland -28 30 £57,500 +15.00%
Wales +46 27 £48,000 +24.68% 2
East of England -28 25 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire +27 18 £57,500 +3.60%
North East -2 17 £24,960 -47.64% 1
East Midlands -36 15 £57,500 +18.28%
Northern Ireland +20 1 - - 2
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 207 (68.54%) SQL
2 151 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 130 (43.05%) Azure
4 123 (40.73%) Social Skills
5 110 (36.42%) Oracle
6 107 (35.43%) Microsoft
7 92 (30.46%) Performance Tuning
8 76 (25.17%) Power BI
8 76 (25.17%) Power Platform
9 74 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
10 71 (23.51%) Security Cleared
11 70 (23.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 69 (22.85%) T-SQL
13 65 (21.52%) Windows
14 64 (21.19%) Linux
15 61 (20.20%) High Availability
16 59 (19.54%) Microsoft Certification
17 58 (19.21%) Finance
18 56 (18.54%) Azure SQL Database
19 53 (17.55%) Oracle Database
20 49 (16.23%) Collaborative Working
21 47 (15.56%) PowerShell
22 46 (15.23%) Mentoring
23 44 (14.57%) MySQL
24 43 (14.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
25 42 (13.91%) Broadband
25 42 (13.91%) VMS
25 42 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
25 42 (13.91%) Virtual Machines
26 41 (13.58%) SQL Server Integration Services

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (2.98%) WebLogic
2 6 (1.99%) IIS
2 6 (1.99%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.32%) MQSeries
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.66%) Apache
4 2 (0.66%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (4.64%) NEC Housing
2 12 (3.97%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.66%) Maximo
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 130 (43.05%) Azure
2 76 (25.17%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.27%) AWS
4 16 (5.30%) OCI
5 11 (3.64%) GCP
6 8 (2.65%) SaaS
7 5 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.66%) dbt
8 2 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.66%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.91%) Broadband
2 4 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 76 (25.17%) Power BI
3 56 (18.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 53 (17.55%) Oracle Database
5 44 (14.57%) MySQL
6 43 (14.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 41 (13.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 36 (11.92%) MongoDB
9 32 (10.60%) Relational Database
10 29 (9.60%) RDBMS
11 24 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (7.62%) Oracle Database 12c
13 19 (6.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (2.65%) DB2
17 7 (2.32%) Tableau
18 6 (1.99%) Looker
18 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
19 5 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 6 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.32%) Toad
3 1 (0.33%) Git
3 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 123 (40.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.21%) Finance
3 37 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.63%) Police
4 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.97%) Local Government
6 14 (4.64%) Back Office
7 13 (4.30%) Retail
8 8 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.31%) Middleware
2 4 (1.32%) Entity Framework
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (0.99%) .NET
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.66%) J2EE
5 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.33%) CSS
5 1 (0.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.96%) Replication
2 16 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.97%) Driving Licence
4 14 (4.64%) Clustering
5 13 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.32%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (21.52%) Windows
2 64 (21.19%) Linux
3 42 (13.91%) VMS
4 38 (12.58%) Unix
5 24 (7.95%) CentOS
5 24 (7.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (7.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (7.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.65%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.32%) AIX
7 4 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) Solaris
9 1 (0.33%) NetWare
9 1 (0.33%) SUSE
9 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.46%) Performance Tuning
2 74 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (23.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 61 (20.20%) High Availability
5 49 (16.23%) Collaborative Working
6 46 (15.23%) Mentoring
7 42 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (11.92%) Service Delivery
9 35 (11.59%) Performance Monitoring
10 33 (10.93%) Actionable Insight
10 33 (10.93%) Customer Service
10 33 (10.93%) Migration
11 32 (10.60%) Capacity Planning
11 32 (10.60%) Database Tuning
12 31 (10.26%) Data Management
13 30 (9.93%) Problem Management
14 27 (8.94%) Storage Management
15 24 (7.95%) Capacity Management
15 24 (7.95%) Incident Management
15 24 (7.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 207 (68.54%) SQL
2 69 (22.85%) T-SQL
3 47 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 25 (8.28%) Bash
5 24 (7.95%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.32%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.66%) Python
8 4 (1.32%) C#
9 3 (0.99%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) ProC
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) VBScript
11 1 (0.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 71 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (11.26%) Degree
4 29 (9.60%) DV Cleared
5 25 (8.28%) Oracle Certification
6 17 (5.63%) SC Cleared
7 16 (5.30%) DBS Check
8 13 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.64%) OCP
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) OCA
11 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.29%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.31%) SLA
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (13.91%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (3.97%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (3.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (1.32%) Ansible
3 4 (1.32%) Terraform
4 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (0.99%) Perfmon
5 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.66%) SQL Sentry
6 1 (0.33%) Foglight
6 1 (0.33%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 110 (36.42%) Oracle
2 107 (35.43%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.95%) Red Hat
4 17 (5.63%) VMware
5 14 (4.64%) NEC
6 12 (3.97%) IBM
7 10 (3.31%) Commvault
7 10 (3.31%) Google
8 7 (2.32%) RedGate
9 4 (1.32%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Civica
10 2 (0.66%) IFS
10 2 (0.66%) Progress
10 2 (0.66%) Zoho
11 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.33%) Lotus
11 1 (0.33%) Novell
11 1 (0.33%) Qualys
11 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow