SQL DBA Jobs in the North of England

SQL Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in the North of 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 338 373 365
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 50 60 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.36% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.40% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 46 58 90
10th Percentile £51,250 £39,600 £37,950
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +27.91% -9.47%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,063 £58,750
90th Percentile - £62,500 £62,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% +2.02%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,796 15,129 17,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.56% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,986 8,111 10,905
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,669 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in the North of England.

Salary trend for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in the North of England

SQL DBA
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL DBA within the North of 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 West +3 30 £56,250 +2.27% 1
Yorkshire +63 11 £57,500 +4.55%
North East +6 9 £57,500 +4.55% 2
SQL DBA
England

SQL DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, 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 job ads across the North of England region featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) SQL
2 47 (94.00%) SQL Server
3 46 (92.00%) Azure
4 40 (80.00%) T-SQL
4 40 (80.00%) Microsoft
4 40 (80.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
6 28 (56.00%) Performance Tuning
7 27 (54.00%) Power BI
7 27 (54.00%) Power Platform
7 27 (54.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (54.00%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (48.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (48.00%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (42.00%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (42.00%) High Availability
9 21 (42.00%) Broadband
9 21 (42.00%) VMS
10 16 (32.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (32.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
11 15 (30.00%) Commvault
12 14 (28.00%) Finance
13 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (20.00%) Relational Database
14 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
14 10 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (20.00%) Server Patching
14 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (20.00%) Cloud Native

SQL DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 46 (92.00%) Azure
2 27 (54.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (94.00%) SQL Server
2 40 (80.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (54.00%) Power BI
4 16 (32.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (32.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 10 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 6 (12.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (8.00%) MySQL
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.00%) MS Access
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (54.00%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (48.00%) Collaborative Working
3 24 (48.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (42.00%) High Availability
5 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.00%) Server Patching
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (12.00%) Migration
9 5 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 4 (8.00%) Database Tuning
11 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.00%) Database Security
11 3 (6.00%) Task Automation
12 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 1 (2.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) SQL
2 40 (80.00%) T-SQL
3 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 40 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) Commvault
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle