Progress DBA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Progress Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Progress Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £50,101 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 - 739
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Progress DBA 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.001% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% - 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,849 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 - -
75th Percentile £51,354 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,101 - -

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 62,970 25,190 67,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.98% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41,929 13,343 48,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Progress DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Progress DBA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Progress DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Progress 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 Progress DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 May 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 West - 1 £50,101 -
North of England - 1 £50,101 -
Progress DBA
UK

Progress DBA Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 May 2026, Progress 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 Progress DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenEdge
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

Progress 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 (100.00%) OpenEdge
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Housing Association
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle