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 to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 406 438
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 383 416 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.68% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.76% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 285 315 366
10th Percentile £42,900 £36,175 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,500 £65,000
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +35 98 £55,000 - 14
Midlands +12 74 £57,500 +15.00% 9
South West +1 69 £57,500 +11.65% 2
South East -46 57 £57,500 +4.55% 11
North West +30 55 £55,000 +3.77% 5
East Midlands +21 41 £55,000 +1.85% 2
Scotland -44 37 £57,500 -4.17% 4
West Midlands -24 29 £57,500 +15.00% 7
East of England +5 26 £57,500 +4.55% 6
Yorkshire +65 25 £54,500 -3.96% 6
Wales +22 20 £48,000 +24.68% 1
North East +2 18 £52,500 +31.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 303 (79.11%) SQL
2 232 (60.57%) SQL Server
3 196 (51.17%) Azure
4 192 (50.13%) Microsoft
5 159 (41.51%) Social Skills
6 156 (40.73%) Performance Tuning
7 133 (34.73%) Oracle
8 129 (33.68%) T-SQL
8 129 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
9 120 (31.33%) Power BI
9 120 (31.33%) Power Platform
10 114 (29.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 108 (28.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 101 (26.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 93 (24.28%) High Availability
14 89 (23.24%) Linux
15 83 (21.67%) Collaborative Working
16 75 (19.58%) Finance
17 74 (19.32%) VMS
17 74 (19.32%) Broadband
17 74 (19.32%) Virtual Machines
18 73 (19.06%) Windows
19 72 (18.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 72 (18.80%) Security Cleared
20 67 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
21 66 (17.23%) Oracle Database
21 66 (17.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
22 64 (16.71%) MySQL
23 59 (15.40%) PowerShell
24 53 (13.84%) Mentoring

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 10 (2.61%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.78%) CICS
4 3 (0.78%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.78%) WildFly
5 2 (0.52%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.61%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.04%) Maximo
2 4 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 196 (51.17%) Azure
2 120 (31.33%) Power Platform
3 39 (10.18%) AWS
4 24 (6.27%) OCI
5 19 (4.96%) GCP
6 5 (1.31%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.78%) PaaS
9 2 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.52%) SaaS
9 2 (0.52%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (19.32%) Broadband
2 3 (0.78%) HTTP
3 2 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (60.57%) SQL Server
2 120 (31.33%) Power BI
3 101 (26.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (18.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 66 (17.23%) Oracle Database
5 66 (17.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 64 (16.71%) MySQL
7 51 (13.32%) Relational Database
8 48 (12.53%) MongoDB
9 33 (8.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 30 (7.83%) RDBMS
11 18 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (3.13%) DB2
14 11 (2.87%) Oracle Database 12c
15 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
16 9 (2.35%) OLTP
17 7 (1.83%) MariaDB
18 4 (1.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Git
2 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.26%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.58%) Finance
3 37 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.13%) Police
6 10 (2.61%) Back Office
6 10 (2.61%) Local Government
7 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.57%) Retail
9 5 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (0.78%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Billing
11 2 (0.52%) Games
11 2 (0.52%) German Language
11 2 (0.52%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.83%) Middleware
2 6 (1.57%) XML
3 4 (1.04%) .NET
4 3 (0.78%) EDI
5 2 (0.52%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.52%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.52%) JSON
5 2 (0.52%) REST
6 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.26%) CSS
6 1 (0.26%) J2EE
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.88%) Replication
2 22 (5.74%) Clustering
3 16 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.87%) Driving Licence
4 11 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.83%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.57%) PMI
9 5 (1.31%) NHS
10 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.78%) VSAM
12 2 (0.52%) Photography
13 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 89 (23.24%) Linux
2 74 (19.32%) VMS
3 73 (19.06%) Windows
4 34 (8.88%) Unix
5 33 (8.62%) CentOS
5 33 (8.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (8.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (8.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.04%) AIX
8 4 (1.04%) SUSE
8 4 (1.04%) zOS
9 2 (0.52%) Debian
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (40.73%) Performance Tuning
2 129 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
3 114 (29.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 93 (24.28%) High Availability
5 83 (21.67%) Collaborative Working
6 67 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (13.84%) Mentoring
8 52 (13.58%) Database Tuning
9 49 (12.79%) Migration
10 47 (12.27%) Actionable Insight
11 43 (11.23%) Performance Monitoring
12 42 (10.97%) Customer Service
13 36 (9.40%) Capacity Planning
13 36 (9.40%) Storage Management
14 35 (9.14%) Database Security
15 32 (8.36%) Capacity Management
16 31 (8.09%) Computer Science
16 31 (8.09%) User Experience
17 28 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (7.05%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 303 (79.11%) SQL
2 129 (33.68%) T-SQL
3 59 (15.40%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.14%) Bash
5 30 (7.83%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.83%) Python
7 6 (1.57%) C#
8 3 (0.78%) COBOL
8 3 (0.78%) JCL
8 3 (0.78%) REXX
8 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.52%) AWK
9 2 (0.52%) Java
9 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.52%) sed
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) ProC
10 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 108 (28.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 72 (18.80%) Security Cleared
3 51 (13.32%) Degree
4 41 (10.70%) Oracle Certification
5 31 (8.09%) DV Cleared
6 30 (7.83%) DBS Check
6 30 (7.83%) OCP
7 25 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (6.01%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.61%) OCA
10 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.57%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.78%) CIPD
13 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.52%) MCITP
13 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.78%) QA
3 3 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (19.32%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (3.39%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.78%) RACF
4 3 (0.78%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (4.44%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (2.87%) Data Guard
3 8 (2.09%) Ansible
4 7 (1.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (0.78%) MAINVIEW
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Statspack
5 3 (0.78%) Perfmon
5 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) Foglight
6 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 192 (50.13%) Microsoft
2 133 (34.73%) Oracle
3 33 (8.62%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.44%) VMware
5 15 (3.92%) Commvault
6 13 (3.39%) Google
7 10 (2.61%) NEC
8 6 (1.57%) IBM
8 6 (1.57%) RedGate
9 4 (1.04%) SAP
10 3 (0.78%) BMC
10 3 (0.78%) New Relic
11 2 (0.52%) Civica
11 2 (0.52%) IFS
11 2 (0.52%) Progress
11 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.52%) Veeam
11 2 (0.52%) Zoho
12 1 (0.26%) F5
12 1 (0.26%) Qualys