DBA Jobs in Birmingham

Database Administrator
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Database Administrator salary in Birmingham is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 114 173
Rank change year-on-year -4 +59 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 31 17 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.99% 0.95% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.02% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 15
10th Percentile £53,750 - £45,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,563 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,375 £62,500 £62,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,956 1,664 3,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 92.81% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,353 1,307 2,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Birmingham

DBA
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in Birmingham.

Salary trend for DBA in Birmingham

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 21 (67.74%) SQL
2 20 (64.52%) SQL Server
3 18 (58.06%) Performance Tuning
4 16 (51.61%) Azure
5 14 (45.16%) Logistics
6 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
7 11 (35.48%) Linux
8 10 (32.26%) Oracle
8 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
9 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
9 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
9 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (29.03%) Power BI
10 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (25.81%) Replication
10 8 (25.81%) T-SQL
11 7 (22.58%) ITIL
11 7 (22.58%) Unix
11 7 (22.58%) Windows
11 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
11 7 (22.58%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
11 7 (22.58%) Back Office
11 7 (22.58%) NEC
11 7 (22.58%) Finance
11 7 (22.58%) Degree
11 7 (22.58%) Problem Management
11 7 (22.58%) Local Government

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (9.68%) MQSeries
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) NEC Housing
2 3 (9.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (64.52%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) Power BI
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (22.58%) Oracle Database
4 7 (22.58%) Oracle Database 12c
5 6 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (19.35%) Looker
5 6 (19.35%) Tableau
6 4 (12.90%) MySQL
7 3 (9.68%) DB2
8 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
9 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Back Office
3 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Local Government
3 7 (22.58%) Police
3 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 6 (19.35%) Manufacturing
4 6 (19.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Replication
2 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
2 7 (22.58%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Unix
2 7 (22.58%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (45.16%) Logistics
3 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
4 7 (22.58%) Application Security
4 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
4 7 (22.58%) ITIL
4 7 (22.58%) Problem Management
5 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
5 6 (19.35%) Data Management
5 6 (19.35%) Supply Chain Management
6 5 (16.13%) Database Tuning
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) IT Strategy
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Security Management
7 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Database Security
7 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) NEC
3 3 (9.68%) IBM