SQL DBA Job Trends in West Yorkshire

SQL Database Administrator
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in West Yorkshire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.071% - 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% - 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44,250 - -
25th Percentile £46,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,875 - -
90th Percentile £58,750 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,984 1,419 2,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 91.73% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,933 774 1,302
10th Percentile £30,300 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SQL DBA job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for SQL DBA job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for SQL DBA job vacancies in West Yorkshire

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in West Yorkshire

SQL DBA
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Leeds - 2 £60,000 - 1
Bradford - 1 £45,000 -
SQL DBA
Yorkshire

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 September 2026, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Teradata
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Teradata