SQL DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 531 631
Rank change year-on-year -51 +100 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 180 223 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 170 185 195
10th Percentile £48,500 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £55,625
90th Percentile - £62,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +4.17%

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 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
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 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in the UK excluding London

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +31 51 £57,500 +4.55% 3
North West +17 31 £55,000 -
Midlands -3 28 £57,500 +15.00% 2
South West -20 26 £57,500 +36.44% 1
South East -29 26 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Scotland - 24 £57,500 - 4
East of England +5 15 £57,500 +6.98%
East Midlands -3 15 £57,500 +4.55%
West Midlands 0 13 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +57 11 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Wales +13 10 £42,500 +10.39%
North East +5 9 £57,500 +4.55% 2
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 179 (99.44%) SQL
2 156 (86.67%) SQL Server
3 150 (83.33%) Azure
4 123 (68.33%) Microsoft
5 115 (63.89%) Social Skills
6 111 (61.67%) T-SQL
7 109 (60.56%) Power Platform
7 109 (60.56%) Power BI
8 107 (59.44%) Business Intelligence
9 100 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 94 (52.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 92 (51.11%) Performance Tuning
12 82 (45.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 79 (43.89%) Collaborative Working
14 76 (42.22%) High Availability
15 74 (41.11%) Broadband
15 74 (41.11%) VMS
15 74 (41.11%) Virtual Machines
16 57 (31.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 56 (31.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 33 (18.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
20 30 (16.67%) Migration
21 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
22 26 (14.44%) Customer Service
22 26 (14.44%) DBS Check
23 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
24 18 (10.00%) Relational Database
25 16 (8.89%) Degree
25 16 (8.89%) RDBMS

SQL 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 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.11%) WildFly
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Maximo
1 1 (0.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 150 (83.33%) Azure
2 109 (60.56%) Power Platform
3 14 (7.78%) AWS
4 10 (5.56%) GCP
5 4 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.56%) IaaS
7 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (41.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (86.67%) SQL Server
2 109 (60.56%) Power BI
3 94 (52.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (31.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 56 (31.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (18.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (10.00%) Relational Database
8 16 (8.89%) RDBMS
9 12 (6.67%) MySQL
10 9 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.67%) Big Data
12 3 (1.67%) Looker
12 3 (1.67%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.67%) Tableau
13 2 (1.11%) OLTP
13 2 (1.11%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (1.11%) SSDT
13 2 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.11%) Git
General
1 115 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.33%) Finance
3 5 (2.78%) Law
4 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.67%) Retail
6 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) .NET
1 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET
1 2 (1.11%) REST
1 2 (1.11%) XML
2 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.56%) CSS
2 1 (0.56%) EDI
2 1 (0.56%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Replication
2 10 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.11%) Clustering
5 2 (1.11%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 74 (41.11%) VMS
2 12 (6.67%) Windows
3 10 (5.56%) Linux
4 5 (2.78%) Unix
5 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (59.44%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (51.11%) Performance Tuning
3 82 (45.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 79 (43.89%) Collaborative Working
5 76 (42.22%) High Availability
6 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.67%) Migration
8 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (14.44%) Customer Service
10 13 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (6.67%) Database Tuning
12 11 (6.11%) Computer Science
12 11 (6.11%) Mentoring
13 10 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (5.56%) Server Patching
14 9 (5.00%) Data Modelling
15 8 (4.44%) Capacity Planning
15 8 (4.44%) Configuration Management
16 6 (3.33%) Logistics
16 6 (3.33%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 179 (99.44%) SQL
2 111 (61.67%) T-SQL
3 20 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (0.56%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) PHP
6 1 (0.56%) Python
6 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (14.44%) DBS Check
3 16 (8.89%) Degree
4 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (41.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Perfmon
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (68.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.33%) Commvault
2 15 (8.33%) Oracle
3 6 (3.33%) Google
4 5 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (0.56%) F5