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 £49,875 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 589 541
Rank change year-on-year +48 -48 +118
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 30 177 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.25% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 30 167 182
10th Percentile £44,335 £50,000 £33,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,425 £61,350 £62,375
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +2 10 £53,750 -6.52% 3
Midlands +40 8 £48,500 -15.65% 8
East Midlands +33 8 £48,500 -15.65% 1
North East +46 7 £56,500 -1.74% 3
Scotland +105 5 £47,500 -17.39%
South West +96 4 £62,500 +8.70% 1
South East +65 3 £60,000 +4.35% 6
North West -26 2 £37,500 -31.82%
Yorkshire +52 1 £55,000 -4.35%
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (96.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (73.33%) Azure
4 18 (60.00%) T-SQL
5 15 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (43.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (40.00%) Finance
7 12 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
9 10 (33.33%) ETL
9 10 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (33.33%) Data Lake
10 9 (30.00%) High Availability
11 8 (26.67%) Reverse Engineering
11 8 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (26.67%) Analytics
11 8 (26.67%) Data Structures
12 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
12 7 (23.33%) Data Analysis
12 7 (23.33%) Law
13 6 (20.00%) Advertising
13 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
13 6 (20.00%) Storage Management
14 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
14 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
14 5 (16.67%) Database Security
14 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation

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 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (96.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (43.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 10 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (10.00%) MySQL
5 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.00%) Power BI
5 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Law
4 6 (20.00%) Advertising
5 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Games
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Clustering
3 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (33.33%) ETL
4 9 (30.00%) High Availability
5 8 (26.67%) Analytics
5 8 (26.67%) Reverse Engineering
5 8 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (23.33%) Data Analysis
7 6 (20.00%) Storage Management
8 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (16.67%) Database Security
8 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (13.33%) Change Data Capture
9 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) Migration
10 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (10.00%) Capacity Management
10 3 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 3 (10.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) DBS Check
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 3 (10.00%) RedGate
3 3 (10.00%) Talend
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle