Senior DBA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Database Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 559 659
Rank change year-on-year +146 +100 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 4 25 18
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.074% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.077% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 14
10th Percentile £49,000 - £47,425
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £67,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +18.06% -5.42%
75th Percentile £58,750 £74,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £74,850 £76,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -

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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
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 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DBA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior DBA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior DBA.

Senior DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior DBA in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) AIX
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Database Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat