DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £54,660 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 413 418
Rank change year-on-year -104 +5 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 53 383 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.53% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.56% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 46 279 303
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,250 £36,125
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,660 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +10.58% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,438 £61,250 £58,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% +4.76%

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 35,007 68,127 52,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.86% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,566 48,111 29,896
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 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
Midlands +15 16 £48,500 -15.65% 32
North of England -40 14 £53,750 -2.27% 46
South East +48 12 £65,000 +13.04% 56
East Midlands +8 10 £48,500 -11.82% 14
North East +36 7 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Scotland +90 6 £47,500 -17.39% 11
West Midlands +43 6 £60,000 +4.35% 16
North West -46 6 £40,000 -27.27% 16
South West +40 5 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Yorkshire +37 1 £55,000 -4.35% 21
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, 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 45 (84.91%) SQL
2 37 (69.81%) SQL Server
3 26 (49.06%) Azure
4 22 (41.51%) T-SQL
5 20 (37.74%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (33.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
8 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (30.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (26.42%) Finance
9 14 (26.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (24.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (22.64%) ETL
11 12 (22.64%) Oracle
11 12 (22.64%) Analytics
11 12 (22.64%) Data Lake
12 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (20.75%) High Availability
12 11 (20.75%) Linux
12 11 (20.75%) Data Analysis
13 10 (18.87%) Data Structures
13 10 (18.87%) Reverse Engineering
14 9 (16.98%) Data Management
14 9 (16.98%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (16.98%) Windows
14 9 (16.98%) Oracle Database
15 8 (15.09%) Task Automation
15 8 (15.09%) Law
15 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
16 7 (13.21%) Degree

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 2 (3.77%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (5.66%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) SAN
2 1 (1.89%) DHCP
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) IPsec
2 1 (1.89%) SSH
2 1 (1.89%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (69.81%) SQL Server
2 18 (33.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (30.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (26.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (22.64%) Data Lake
6 9 (16.98%) Oracle Database
7 7 (13.21%) MySQL
8 6 (11.32%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (7.55%) Power BI
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.89%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
11 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Law
4 6 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Advertising
6 3 (5.66%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Police
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Middleware
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.55%) Clustering
4 3 (5.66%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.66%) Replication
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Online Games
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 7 (13.21%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.89%) Solaris
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (24.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (22.64%) Analytics
3 12 (22.64%) ETL
4 11 (20.75%) Data Analysis
4 11 (20.75%) High Availability
4 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.87%) Reverse Engineering
6 9 (16.98%) Data Management
6 9 (16.98%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (15.09%) Task Automation
8 7 (13.21%) Migration
8 7 (13.21%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (11.32%) Storage Management
10 5 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.43%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (9.43%) Change Data Capture
10 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
10 5 (9.43%) Database Security
10 5 (9.43%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 45 (84.91%) SQL
2 22 (41.51%) T-SQL
3 7 (13.21%) PL/SQL
3 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Python
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) DBS Check
2 5 (9.43%) OCA
2 5 (9.43%) OCP
2 5 (9.43%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
1 1 (1.89%) LXC
1 1 (1.89%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.64%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (3.77%) Informatica
4 2 (3.77%) RedGate
4 2 (3.77%) Talend
5 1 (1.89%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.89%) SAP