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 £51,375 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 587 532
Rank change year-on-year +42 -55 +121
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 34 176 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 34 166 183
10th Percentile £45,200 £50,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,375 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,563 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,900 - £62,500
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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
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 31 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 31 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 0 11 £52,500 -8.70% 3
Midlands +47 9 £48,500 -15.65% 4
North East +49 8 £54,500 -5.22% 2
East Midlands +38 8 £48,500 -15.65% 2
Scotland +103 5 £47,500 -17.39%
South East +55 5 £52,500 -8.70% 8
South West +90 4 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North West -25 2 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Yorkshire +46 1 £55,000 -4.35%
West Midlands +43 1 £57,500 -4.17% 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 31 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 34 (100.00%) SQL
2 33 (97.06%) SQL Server
3 26 (76.47%) Azure
4 20 (58.82%) T-SQL
5 16 (47.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (41.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (35.29%) Finance
7 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
8 11 (32.35%) ETL
8 11 (32.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (32.35%) High Availability
9 10 (29.41%) Data Lake
10 8 (23.53%) Data Structures
10 8 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (23.53%) Analytics
10 8 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
11 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
11 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
11 7 (20.59%) Law
12 6 (17.65%) Advertising
12 6 (17.65%) Clustering
12 6 (17.65%) AWS
12 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
12 6 (17.65%) Storage Management
13 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
13 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (14.71%) Database Security

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 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) SaaS
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (97.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (47.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (41.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (32.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (29.41%) Data Lake
6 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
6 3 (8.82%) MySQL
6 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (8.82%) Power BI
6 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
6 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Law
3 6 (17.65%) Advertising
4 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Games
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Data Structures
2 6 (17.65%) Clustering
3 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.82%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (32.35%) ETL
2 11 (32.35%) High Availability
3 8 (23.53%) Analytics
3 8 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
3 8 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
5 6 (17.65%) Storage Management
6 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (14.71%) Database Security
6 5 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
8 3 (8.82%) Capacity Management
8 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (58.82%) T-SQL
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) DBS Check
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Nimble Storage
2 4 (11.76%) RedGate
3 3 (8.82%) Informatica
3 3 (8.82%) Talend
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds