SQL Database Administrator
UK

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 690 701 890
Rank change year-on-year +11 +189 -193
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 208 281 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 193 241 306
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +9.45% +3.61%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% +15.22% -3.16%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in the UK

SQL DBA
Top 16 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 14 May 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
UK excluding London -58 177 £57,500 +8.49% 18
England -11 169 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Work from Home +72 150 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North of England +18 50 £57,500 +4.55% 3
North West +4 30 £56,250 +2.27% 1
Midlands -1 27 £57,500 +15.00% 1
London +106 26 £70,000 +7.69% 9
South West -12 26 £57,500 +40.59%
South East -42 26 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Scotland -30 24 £57,500 +15.00% 4
East Midlands -5 14 £57,500 +4.55%
East of England -10 14 £57,500 +6.98% 1
West Midlands -12 13 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire +64 11 £57,500 +4.55%
Wales +14 10 £42,500 +10.39%
North East +2 9 £57,500 +4.55% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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.

1 199 (95.67%) SQL
2 181 (87.02%) SQL Server
3 160 (76.92%) Azure
4 131 (62.98%) T-SQL
5 127 (61.06%) Microsoft
6 121 (58.17%) Social Skills
7 117 (56.25%) Power Platform
7 117 (56.25%) Power BI
8 111 (53.37%) Performance Tuning
9 107 (51.44%) Business Intelligence
10 102 (49.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 97 (46.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 97 (46.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 90 (43.27%) High Availability
13 82 (39.42%) Collaborative Working
14 74 (35.58%) Virtual Machines
14 74 (35.58%) Broadband
14 74 (35.58%) VMS
15 69 (33.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 67 (32.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 43 (20.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (15.87%) Migration
20 32 (15.38%) PowerShell
21 31 (14.90%) Finance
22 27 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
23 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
23 26 (12.50%) DBS Check
24 22 (10.58%) Replication
24 22 (10.58%) Windows

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 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.96%) WildFly
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Maximo
1 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 160 (76.92%) Azure
2 117 (56.25%) Power Platform
3 17 (8.17%) AWS
4 9 (4.33%) GCP
5 8 (3.85%) GitHub
6 3 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.96%) Serverless
8 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
8 1 (0.48%) SaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (35.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (87.02%) SQL Server
2 117 (56.25%) Power BI
3 97 (46.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (33.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 67 (32.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 43 (20.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 20 (9.62%) Relational Database
8 19 (9.13%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (7.69%) RDBMS
10 12 (5.77%) MySQL
11 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.44%) Big Data
12 3 (1.44%) Looker
12 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.44%) Tableau
13 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
13 2 (0.96%) SSDT
13 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Git
2 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (58.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.90%) Finance
3 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (1.92%) Law
4 4 (1.92%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.44%) Retail
6 1 (0.48%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.44%) XML
2 2 (0.96%) .NET
2 2 (0.96%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.96%) REST
2 2 (0.96%) RESTful
3 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.48%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.48%) CSS
3 1 (0.48%) EDI
3 1 (0.48%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Replication
2 21 (10.10%) Clustering
3 10 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.96%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.58%) VMS
2 22 (10.58%) Windows
3 12 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.81%) Linux
5 5 (2.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (53.37%) Performance Tuning
2 107 (51.44%) Business Intelligence
3 97 (46.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 90 (43.27%) High Availability
5 82 (39.42%) Collaborative Working
6 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.87%) Migration
8 27 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (12.50%) Customer Service
10 15 (7.21%) Database Tuning
11 13 (6.25%) Change Management
11 13 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.25%) ETL
12 12 (5.77%) Database Security
13 11 (5.29%) Computer Science
13 11 (5.29%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (5.29%) Mentoring
13 11 (5.29%) Task Automation
14 10 (4.81%) Server Patching
15 8 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 199 (95.67%) SQL
2 131 (62.98%) T-SQL
3 32 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.88%) C#
5 4 (1.92%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) PHP
6 1 (0.48%) Python
6 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (49.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 18 (8.65%) Degree
4 12 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) MCSA
8 2 (0.96%) MCSE
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (35.58%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.85%) Ansible
1 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (3.37%) Foglight
2 7 (3.37%) Nagios
3 3 (1.44%) Perfmon
4 2 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.96%) SCOM
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (61.06%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.17%) Commvault
3 14 (6.73%) Oracle
4 7 (3.37%) ArcSight
4 7 (3.37%) HP
4 7 (3.37%) VMware
5 6 (2.88%) Google
6 2 (0.96%) Databricks
6 2 (0.96%) NetApp
7 1 (0.48%) F5