SQL DBA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Database Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £48,500 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 370 442 519
Rank change year-on-year +72 +77 +133
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 27 151 155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27 142 144
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £63,975 £66,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

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% -

SQL DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

SQL DBA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SQL DBA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) SQL
2 25 (92.59%) SQL Server
3 21 (77.78%) T-SQL
4 19 (70.37%) Azure
5 14 (51.85%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (40.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (37.04%) Finance
8 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (33.33%) Data Analysis
9 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
10 7 (25.93%) Reverse Engineering
10 7 (25.93%) Analytics
10 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
10 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
10 7 (25.93%) Law
10 7 (25.93%) ETL
10 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
11 6 (22.22%) AWS
11 6 (22.22%) SaaS
12 5 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
12 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
13 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (14.81%) Linux
13 4 (14.81%) DevOps

SQL 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 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (92.59%) SQL Server
2 11 (40.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (37.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (7.41%) Couchbase
6 2 (7.41%) MySQL
6 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Advertising
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
2 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) AIX
3 2 (7.41%) Solaris
3 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Performance Tuning
2 9 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 7 (25.93%) Analytics
3 7 (25.93%) ETL
3 7 (25.93%) Reverse Engineering
3 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (7.41%) Capacity Management
7 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (7.41%) Database Security
7 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.41%) SDLC
7 2 (7.41%) Server Management
7 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Thought Leadership
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (77.78%) T-SQL
3 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) RedGate