Database Analyst Jobs

Database Analyst
UK

The median Database Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 848 968
Rank change year-on-year +148 +120 +233
Permanent jobs requiring a Database Analyst 10 39 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.039% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.042% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 5 29 10
10th Percentile - £33,700 £23,775
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £31,062
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -1.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile - £50,000 £45,750
90th Percentile - - £63,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £36,476 £35,144
% change year-on-year +4.18% +3.79% -17.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 48,816 93,552 93,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.64% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,241 67,063 59,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Database Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Database Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Analyst.

Salary trend for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Analyst over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Analyst in the UK

Database Analyst
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +138 7 £60,000 +26.32% 3
London +100 6 £60,000 +20.00% 1
UK excluding London +161 3 £38,000 +4.18% 2
Scotland - 2 £38,000 -
East of England +49 1 - -

Database Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Database Analyst 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 featuring Database Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Degree
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Confluence
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) CMDB
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Power BI
4 3 (30.00%) Tableau
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 1 (10.00%) Kafka
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (10.00%) R
6 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Data Management

Database Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (50.00%) Service Management
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle