DBA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 341 398
Rank change year-on-year -15 +57 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 41 271 299
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.80% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.83% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 41 236 247
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,375 £68,000
UK median annual salary £53,410 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DBA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DBA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing DBA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring DBA in the job title.

1 36 (87.80%) SQL
2 29 (70.73%) SQL Server
3 23 (56.10%) Azure
4 22 (53.66%) T-SQL
5 19 (46.34%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (29.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (29.27%) Finance
8 11 (26.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (26.83%) Oracle
8 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (24.39%) Linux
9 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
9 10 (24.39%) ETL
9 10 (24.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
9 10 (24.39%) Analytics
10 9 (21.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (21.95%) Windows
11 8 (19.51%) Law
11 8 (19.51%) Data Quality
11 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (19.51%) Reverse Engineering
11 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
11 8 (19.51%) Data Lake
12 7 (17.07%) Oracle Database
13 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
13 6 (14.63%) Database Tuning
13 6 (14.63%) AWS
13 6 (14.63%) SaaS

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 1 (2.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) SaaS
3 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
4 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DHCP
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
1 1 (2.44%) IPsec
1 1 (2.44%) SSH
1 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (70.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (29.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (26.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (24.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (19.51%) Data Lake
6 7 (17.07%) Oracle Database
7 4 (9.76%) MySQL
7 4 (9.76%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (4.88%) Couchbase
8 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 15 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Law
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.44%) Local Government
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Police
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Middleware
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Replication
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Clustering
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 9 (21.95%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Unix
4 4 (9.76%) Solaris
5 3 (7.32%) AIX
6 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) Analytics
3 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
3 10 (24.39%) ETL
4 9 (21.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (19.51%) Reverse Engineering
5 8 (19.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (14.63%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (14.63%) Database Tuning
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) High Availability
8 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.76%) Data Management
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (9.76%) Server Management
8 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
9 3 (7.32%) Migration
9 3 (7.32%) Performance Monitoring
10 2 (4.88%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) SQL
2 22 (53.66%) T-SQL
3 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
3 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) OCA
1 4 (9.76%) OCP
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) LXC
2 1 (2.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Oracle
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) RedGate
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat