Senior DBA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 552 530
Rank change year-on-year +47 -22 +187
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 5 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.060% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.064% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 21
10th Percentile £56,125 £43,710 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £46,553 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -7.27% +6.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,438 £60,000
90th Percentile - £76,250 £62,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,754 £56,250
% change year-on-year +13.35% +9.78% +8.17%

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 37,905 34,350 29,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.99% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 22,968 17,009 22,660
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -0.79%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Senior DBA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior DBA job vacancies 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 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 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
South West +12 3 £75,000 +49.26% 1
North of England +16 1 £52,500 -12.50%
North East +4 1 £52,500 +5.00%
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Senior DBA
UK

Senior DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior DBA in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Laravel
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) New Relic
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Database Security
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic
1 1 (20.00%) RedGate
1 1 (20.00%) Talend