Senior DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £51,498 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 729 779
Rank change year-on-year +2 +50 -131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 28 22 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.036% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.040% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 18 17 39
10th Percentile £42,600 £43,650 £41,540
25th Percentile £49,236 £45,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,498 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £56,063 £59,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £58,625 £63,750 £69,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in the UK excluding London

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior DBA in the UK excluding London

Senior DBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DBA in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +44 11 £50,000 -10.71%
Yorkshire +98 8 £50,000 -13.04%
East of England +27 6 £30,000 - 1
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 1
Midlands +9 3 £55,000 +10.00%
North East - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 -
South East - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +27 1 £55,000 +10.00%
Wales +5 1 £48,000 -1.03% 1
Senior DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior DBA in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Oracle
3 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
3 9 (32.14%) MySQL
4 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 8 (28.57%) AWS
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (21.43%) Database Security
6 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
7 5 (17.86%) OCI
8 4 (14.29%) Commercialisation
8 4 (14.29%) Ansible
8 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
8 4 (14.29%) Statistics
8 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
8 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (14.29%) Finance
8 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 3 (10.71%) OCP
9 3 (10.71%) OCA
9 3 (10.71%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery

Senior 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 (7.14%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) OCI
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MySQL
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle Database
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.14%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Police
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) Database Security
2 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (14.29%) Commercialisation
4 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (14.29%) Statistics
5 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
6 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
6 2 (7.14%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.14%) ERP
6 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.57%) Re-Platforming
7 1 (3.57%) Roadmaps
7 1 (3.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) OCA
2 3 (10.71%) OCP
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.57%) Foglight
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) IFS
4 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.57%) YouTube