SQL Database Administrator
UK

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 688 610
Rank change year-on-year -3 -78 +319
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 46 197 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.21% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42 181 248
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,375 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.65% +9.52% +6.60%

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 53,874 95,222 77,637
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 94.83% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,775 66,170 53,203
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,439 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.67%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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
UK excluding London +4 38 £51,375 -10.65% 13
England +7 37 £52,500 -8.70% 21
Work from Home -27 31 £48,500 -15.65% 9
Midlands +52 11 £48,500 -15.65% 1
North of England +19 9 £52,500 -8.70% 5
East Midlands +40 8 £48,500 -15.65%
South East +39 7 £51,500 -10.43% 4
North East +37 6 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Scotland +75 5 £47,500 -17.39%
South West +74 5 £62,500 +8.70%
London +84 4 £56,250 -29.69% 12
West Midlands +39 3 £57,500 -4.17% 1
North West -19 2 £37,500 -33.33% 4
Yorkshire +31 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) SQL
2 45 (97.83%) SQL Server
3 33 (71.74%) Azure
4 27 (58.70%) T-SQL
5 22 (47.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (45.65%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (41.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (41.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (32.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
8 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (28.26%) High Availability
9 13 (28.26%) ETL
10 12 (26.09%) Finance
11 11 (23.91%) AWS
12 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
13 9 (19.57%) DevOps
14 8 (17.39%) Data Structures
14 8 (17.39%) Analytics
14 8 (17.39%) Data Quality
14 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (17.39%) Reverse Engineering
14 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
14 8 (17.39%) Law
14 8 (17.39%) Clustering
14 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
15 7 (15.22%) Migration
15 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
15 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence

SQL 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (97.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (41.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (41.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (32.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
5 5 (10.87%) Power BI
5 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
5 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
6 4 (8.70%) MySQL
6 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
8 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.17%) DB2
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 8 (17.39%) Law
5 6 (13.04%) Advertising
6 3 (6.52%) Legal
7 2 (4.35%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) Middleware
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Clustering
1 8 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Replication
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) AIX
2 2 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (45.65%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (28.26%) ETL
3 13 (28.26%) High Availability
4 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.57%) DevOps
6 8 (17.39%) Analytics
6 8 (17.39%) Reverse Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (15.22%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Database Security
7 7 (15.22%) Migration
8 6 (13.04%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.87%) Storage Management
10 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) SQL
2 27 (58.70%) T-SQL
3 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) DBS Check
2 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) RedGate
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle
4 4 (8.70%) Informatica
4 4 (8.70%) Talend
5 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Cognos
7 1 (2.17%) Nimble Storage