DBA Jobs in England

Database Administrator
UK > England

The median Database Administrator salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 483 564
Rank change year-on-year +15 +81 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 414 497 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.61% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 306 406 524
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,449 £38,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £73,375 £72,500
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,789 81,044 130,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.54% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,868 51,693 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in England

DBA
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DBA in England

DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in England

DBA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +53 98 £55,000 +3.77% 15
London +80 86 £67,500 +6.30% 20
Midlands -1 74 £57,500 +15.00% 13
South West +16 69 £57,500 +11.65% 4
South East -55 59 £57,500 +8.49% 19
North West +21 55 £55,000 +3.77% 5
East Midlands +19 39 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands -20 31 £57,500 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire +66 25 £54,500 -0.91% 4
East of England -21 24 £57,500 +4.55% 7
North East +3 18 £52,500 +31.25% 6
DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 job ads across the England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 300 (72.46%) SQL
2 248 (59.90%) SQL Server
3 191 (46.14%) Microsoft
4 187 (45.17%) Azure
5 169 (40.82%) Performance Tuning
6 166 (40.10%) Social Skills
7 144 (34.78%) T-SQL
8 135 (32.61%) Oracle
9 118 (28.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 115 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
11 108 (26.09%) Finance
12 106 (25.60%) Power BI
12 106 (25.60%) Power Platform
13 95 (22.95%) High Availability
14 94 (22.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 91 (21.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 90 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 86 (20.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 85 (20.53%) Linux
19 79 (19.08%) Collaborative Working
20 75 (18.12%) Security Cleared
21 73 (17.63%) MySQL
22 72 (17.39%) Oracle Database
23 71 (17.15%) PowerShell
24 70 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
25 69 (16.67%) Windows
26 68 (16.43%) AWS
27 63 (15.22%) Broadband
27 63 (15.22%) VMS
27 63 (15.22%) Virtual Machines

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (1.69%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.72%) MQSeries
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
2 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
2 3 (0.72%) WildFly
3 2 (0.48%) CICS
3 2 (0.48%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (5.07%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.72%) Maximo
3 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 187 (45.17%) Azure
2 106 (25.60%) Power Platform
3 68 (16.43%) AWS
4 20 (4.83%) GCP
4 20 (4.83%) OCI
5 9 (2.17%) Datadog
6 8 (1.93%) GitHub
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (1.69%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.21%) Nutanix
9 4 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.97%) SaaS
10 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.72%) PaaS
10 3 (0.72%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.22%) Broadband
2 5 (1.21%) DAB
3 3 (0.72%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.48%) SSL
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.24%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (59.90%) SQL Server
2 106 (25.60%) Power BI
3 91 (21.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 90 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 86 (20.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 73 (17.63%) MySQL
7 72 (17.39%) Oracle Database
8 55 (13.29%) MongoDB
9 48 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
10 47 (11.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 45 (10.87%) Relational Database
12 27 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (5.31%) Oracle Database 12c
14 21 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (4.59%) RDBMS
16 14 (3.38%) NoSQL
17 11 (2.66%) DB2
18 10 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
19 9 (2.17%) OLTP
20 7 (1.69%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (4.59%) Git
2 7 (1.69%) Mercurial
3 6 (1.45%) JIRA
4 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
General
1 166 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 108 (26.09%) Finance
3 48 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.07%) Back Office
5 21 (5.07%) Local Government
5 21 (5.07%) Police
6 12 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.17%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.93%) Retail
9 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.72%) Law
10 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Billing
11 2 (0.48%) Games
11 2 (0.48%) German Language
11 2 (0.48%) Legal
11 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.93%) XML
2 7 (1.69%) .NET
3 6 (1.45%) Middleware
4 3 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.72%) EDI
5 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.48%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.48%) REST
5 2 (0.48%) RESTful
6 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.24%) CSS
6 1 (0.24%) J2EE
6 1 (0.24%) JSON
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.66%) Replication
2 34 (8.21%) Clustering
3 27 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.31%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.45%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.45%) NHS
8 6 (1.45%) PMI
9 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.48%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.48%) Photography
11 2 (0.48%) VSAM
12 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (20.53%) Linux
2 69 (16.67%) Windows
3 63 (15.22%) VMS
4 34 (8.21%) CentOS
4 34 (8.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 33 (7.97%) Unix
6 32 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (7.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.66%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.21%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) AIX
9 4 (0.97%) SUSE
10 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.72%) zOS
11 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (40.82%) Performance Tuning
2 118 (28.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 115 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 95 (22.95%) High Availability
5 79 (19.08%) Collaborative Working
6 70 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (14.98%) Mentoring
8 56 (13.53%) Database Tuning
9 51 (12.32%) Customer Service
10 46 (11.11%) Migration
11 44 (10.63%) Database Security
12 42 (10.14%) Performance Monitoring
13 40 (9.66%) ITIL
14 37 (8.94%) Storage Management
15 35 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
16 32 (7.73%) Capacity Management
16 32 (7.73%) Capacity Planning
16 32 (7.73%) User Experience
17 30 (7.25%) Problem Management
18 29 (7.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 300 (72.46%) SQL
2 144 (34.78%) T-SQL
3 71 (17.15%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.21%) Bash
5 28 (6.76%) PL/SQL
6 11 (2.66%) C#
7 9 (2.17%) Python
8 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.72%) CQL
9 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.48%) AWK
10 2 (0.48%) COBOL
10 2 (0.48%) Java
10 2 (0.48%) JCL
10 2 (0.48%) REXX
10 2 (0.48%) sed
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) PHP
11 1 (0.24%) ProC
11 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 94 (22.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 75 (18.12%) Security Cleared
3 51 (12.32%) Degree
4 46 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
5 34 (8.21%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.04%) OCP
7 24 (5.80%) DBS Check
8 23 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.90%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.93%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.45%) OCA
11 6 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.72%) CIPD
13 2 (0.48%) MCITP
13 2 (0.48%) MCSA
13 2 (0.48%) MCSE
13 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.72%) QA
4 3 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (15.22%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (2.66%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.97%) vSphere
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.48%) RACF
5 2 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.62%) Ansible
2 14 (3.38%) Foglight
2 14 (3.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (2.90%) Data Guard
4 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (2.17%) Terraform
5 7 (1.69%) Nagios
6 5 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.48%) MAINVIEW
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Statspack
9 2 (0.48%) SCOM
10 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 191 (46.14%) Microsoft
2 135 (32.61%) Oracle
3 34 (8.21%) Red Hat
4 21 (5.07%) NEC
5 17 (4.11%) Commvault
6 16 (3.86%) Google
7 11 (2.66%) VMware
8 9 (2.17%) RedGate
9 8 (1.93%) HP
10 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.69%) ArcSight
10 7 (1.69%) Veeam
11 6 (1.45%) Dell
12 5 (1.21%) IBM
13 4 (0.97%) SAP
14 3 (0.72%) New Relic
15 2 (0.48%) Databricks
15 2 (0.48%) IDERA
15 2 (0.48%) IFS
15 2 (0.48%) Progress