DBA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Administrator salary in Work from Home is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 397 501
Rank change year-on-year +48 +104 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 269 282 372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.68% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.71% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 235 239 321
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £40,660
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,450 £67,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,448 39,583 66,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,900 28,176 41,784
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DBA.

DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DBA over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

DBA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 jobs with remote work options featuring DBA in the job title.

1 203 (75.46%) SQL
2 180 (66.91%) SQL Server
3 150 (55.76%) Azure
4 137 (50.93%) Microsoft
5 130 (48.33%) Social Skills
6 128 (47.58%) Business Intelligence
7 124 (46.10%) Performance Tuning
8 117 (43.49%) T-SQL
9 110 (40.89%) Power Platform
9 110 (40.89%) Power BI
10 104 (38.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 100 (37.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 94 (34.94%) High Availability
13 84 (31.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 77 (28.62%) Collaborative Working
15 74 (27.51%) Virtual Machines
15 74 (27.51%) Broadband
15 74 (27.51%) VMS
16 60 (22.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 58 (21.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 54 (20.07%) MySQL
19 52 (19.33%) Migration
20 48 (17.84%) Oracle
20 48 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
21 42 (15.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 39 (14.50%) Windows
23 37 (13.75%) Capacity Planning
24 36 (13.38%) Linux
25 33 (12.27%) AWS
25 33 (12.27%) Relational Database

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (2.23%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.12%) CICS
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 150 (55.76%) Azure
2 110 (40.89%) Power Platform
3 33 (12.27%) AWS
4 14 (5.20%) GCP
5 9 (3.35%) Datadog
6 7 (2.60%) GitHub
7 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.49%) OCI
7 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.12%) PaaS
9 2 (0.74%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (27.51%) Broadband
2 5 (1.86%) DAB
3 2 (0.74%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (66.91%) SQL Server
2 110 (40.89%) Power BI
3 84 (31.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 60 (22.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 58 (21.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 54 (20.07%) MySQL
7 42 (15.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 33 (12.27%) Relational Database
9 27 (10.04%) Oracle Database
10 20 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (6.32%) RDBMS
12 14 (5.20%) MongoDB
13 10 (3.72%) NoSQL
14 9 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (3.35%) DB2
15 7 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (1.86%) MariaDB
17 4 (1.49%) SAP HANA
18 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (4.83%) Git
2 4 (1.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.49%) Mercurial
2 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
General
1 130 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.52%) Finance
3 24 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.35%) Tech for Good
5 6 (2.23%) Law
6 5 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.49%) Banking
7 4 (1.49%) Police
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.74%) German Language
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.23%) XML
2 3 (1.12%) Middleware
3 2 (0.74%) .NET
3 2 (0.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.41%) Clustering
2 23 (8.55%) Replication
3 8 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.23%) PMI
4 6 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.12%) NHS
6 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.12%) VSAM
7 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.51%) VMS
2 39 (14.50%) Windows
3 36 (13.38%) Linux
4 20 (7.43%) Unix
5 7 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.49%) AIX
6 4 (1.49%) zOS
7 2 (0.74%) CentOS
7 2 (0.74%) Debian
7 2 (0.74%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (47.58%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (46.10%) Performance Tuning
3 104 (38.66%) Disaster Recovery
4 94 (34.94%) High Availability
5 77 (28.62%) Collaborative Working
6 52 (19.33%) Migration
7 48 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.75%) Capacity Planning
9 33 (12.27%) Customer Service
10 30 (11.15%) Change Management
11 27 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (8.55%) Task Automation
13 21 (7.81%) Service Delivery
14 20 (7.43%) Incident Management
14 20 (7.43%) Incident Response
14 20 (7.43%) Problem Management
15 19 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
15 19 (7.06%) Database Tuning
15 19 (7.06%) ETL
16 18 (6.69%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 203 (75.46%) SQL
2 117 (43.49%) T-SQL
3 19 (7.06%) PL/SQL
4 16 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.49%) C#
6 3 (1.12%) Bash
6 3 (1.12%) COBOL
6 3 (1.12%) JCL
6 3 (1.12%) Python
6 3 (1.12%) REXX
7 2 (0.74%) AWK
7 2 (0.74%) sed
8 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (37.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (10.78%) DBS Check
3 27 (10.04%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.29%) Degree
5 21 (7.81%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.35%) OCP
6 9 (3.35%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.86%) OCA
9 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.12%) CIPD
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (27.51%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.23%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.12%) RACF
3 3 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.72%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (3.35%) Ansible
2 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Clustering
2 9 (3.35%) Terraform
3 8 (2.97%) Data Guard
4 7 (2.60%) Foglight
4 7 (2.60%) Nagios
5 3 (1.12%) MAINVIEW
5 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 137 (50.93%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.84%) Oracle
3 19 (7.06%) VMware
4 10 (3.72%) Google
5 7 (2.60%) ArcSight
5 7 (2.60%) HP
6 4 (1.49%) SAP
7 3 (1.12%) BMC
7 3 (1.12%) IBM
7 3 (1.12%) New Relic
7 3 (1.12%) RedGate
8 2 (0.74%) IFS
8 2 (0.74%) NEC
8 2 (0.74%) Veeam
9 1 (0.37%) Commvault
9 1 (0.37%) F5