Senior SQL DBA Job Trends in Wales

Senior SQL Database Administrator
UK > Wales

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator salary in Wales is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.031% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £50,500
% change year-on-year +17.07% +1.49% -15.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 2,961 704 1,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 84.92% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 530 955
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,125
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -1.52%
75th Percentile £69,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,600
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior SQL DBA' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Senior SQL DBA job vacancy trend in Wales

Senior SQL DBA
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Senior SQL DBA job vacancies in Wales

Senior SQL DBA
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL DBA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
South Wales - 1 £62,500 - 7
Senior SQL DBA
UK

Senior SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Senior SQL DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Senior SQL DBA in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC

Senior SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft