MySQL Database Administrator
UK

The median MySQL Database Administrator salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 976 1201
Rank change year-on-year +114 +225 -327
Permanent jobs requiring a MySQL DBA 23 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.011% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 21
10th Percentile £51,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -27.27% +6.28%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,625 £63,750
90th Percentile - £61,175 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% -13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,044 95,188 149,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,821 59,863 85,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

MySQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MySQL DBA.

Salary trend for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MySQL DBA over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MySQL DBA in the UK

MySQL DBA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MySQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Work from Home +93 18 £75,000 +33.93%
UK excluding London +12 16 £55,000 +37.50%
England +115 14 £55,000 +37.50%
North of England +28 6 £55,000 +37.50%
North West - 5 £55,000 -
South East - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -
London - 2 £55,000 -
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire +86 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -

MySQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, MySQL 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 featuring MySQL DBA in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) MySQL
2 16 (69.57%) Oracle
3 15 (65.22%) Linux
3 15 (65.22%) RDBMS
3 15 (65.22%) Relational Database
4 14 (60.87%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (52.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (52.17%) Incident Management
5 12 (52.17%) Degree
5 12 (52.17%) Problem Management
5 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
5 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
5 12 (52.17%) Unix
5 12 (52.17%) Windows
5 12 (52.17%) VMware
5 12 (52.17%) Service Delivery
5 12 (52.17%) Change Management
5 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (52.17%) Analytical Thinking
5 12 (52.17%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (52.17%) Incident Response
6 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Ansible
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Azure

MySQL DBA 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) MySQL
2 15 (65.22%) RDBMS
2 15 (65.22%) Relational Database
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
4 3 (13.04%) MariaDB
4 3 (13.04%) OLTP
5 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Games
2 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 12 (52.17%) Unix
2 12 (52.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (52.17%) Actionable Insight
2 12 (52.17%) Analytical Thinking
2 12 (52.17%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (52.17%) Change Management
2 12 (52.17%) Incident Management
2 12 (52.17%) Incident Response
2 12 (52.17%) Problem Management
2 12 (52.17%) Service Delivery
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (8.70%) Commercialisation
5 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Degree
1 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Oracle
2 12 (52.17%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft