DBA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Administrator salary in Work from Home is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 378 532
Rank change year-on-year +34 +154 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 267 292 372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.74% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.77% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 232 251 319
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,357 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,675 £67,500 £73,750
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 33,126 38,020 71,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 95.93% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,276 26,975 42,233
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DBA.

DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DBA over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

DBA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 jobs with remote work options featuring DBA in the job title.

1 199 (74.53%) SQL
2 179 (67.04%) SQL Server
3 150 (56.18%) Azure
4 133 (49.81%) Microsoft
5 129 (48.31%) Social Skills
6 127 (47.57%) Business Intelligence
7 121 (45.32%) Performance Tuning
8 114 (42.70%) T-SQL
9 110 (41.20%) Power BI
9 110 (41.20%) Power Platform
10 107 (40.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 100 (37.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 96 (35.96%) High Availability
13 83 (31.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 77 (28.84%) Collaborative Working
15 74 (27.72%) Virtual Machines
15 74 (27.72%) Broadband
15 74 (27.72%) VMS
16 58 (21.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 57 (21.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 53 (19.85%) MySQL
19 51 (19.10%) Migration
20 48 (17.98%) Oracle
21 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
22 41 (15.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
23 39 (14.61%) Windows
24 38 (14.23%) Linux
25 36 (13.48%) AWS
25 36 (13.48%) Capacity Planning
26 33 (12.36%) Relational Database

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.25%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.37%) Apache
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.37%) CICS
2 1 (0.37%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 150 (56.18%) Azure
2 110 (41.20%) Power Platform
3 36 (13.48%) AWS
4 15 (5.62%) GCP
5 9 (3.37%) Datadog
6 8 (3.00%) GitHub
7 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.50%) OCI
7 4 (1.50%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.12%) PaaS
9 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (27.72%) Broadband
2 5 (1.87%) DAB
3 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (67.04%) SQL Server
2 110 (41.20%) Power BI
3 83 (31.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (21.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 57 (21.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 53 (19.85%) MySQL
7 41 (15.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 33 (12.36%) Relational Database
9 25 (9.36%) Oracle Database
10 20 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (6.37%) RDBMS
12 15 (5.62%) MongoDB
13 14 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
15 10 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (2.62%) DB2
18 5 (1.87%) MariaDB
19 4 (1.50%) SAP HANA
20 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) Mercurial
2 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
General
1 129 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.24%) Finance
3 24 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.37%) Tech for Good
5 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.50%) Banking
6 4 (1.50%) Law
6 4 (1.50%) Police
7 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.75%) German Language
9 1 (0.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.12%) Middleware
2 2 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.74%) Clustering
2 21 (7.87%) Replication
3 11 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.25%) PMI
4 6 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.12%) NHS
5 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.72%) VMS
2 39 (14.61%) Windows
3 38 (14.23%) Linux
4 21 (7.87%) Unix
5 7 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.50%) AIX
7 3 (1.12%) SUSE
8 2 (0.75%) CentOS
8 2 (0.75%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) zOS
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.37%) NetWare
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (47.57%) Business Intelligence
2 121 (45.32%) Performance Tuning
3 107 (40.07%) Disaster Recovery
4 96 (35.96%) High Availability
5 77 (28.84%) Collaborative Working
6 51 (19.10%) Migration
7 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.48%) Capacity Planning
9 33 (12.36%) Customer Service
10 29 (10.86%) Change Management
11 26 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (8.61%) Task Automation
13 22 (8.24%) Service Delivery
14 20 (7.49%) Incident Management
14 20 (7.49%) Incident Response
14 20 (7.49%) Problem Management
15 19 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (6.74%) Actionable Insight
16 18 (6.74%) Data Security
16 18 (6.74%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 199 (74.53%) SQL
2 114 (42.70%) T-SQL
3 17 (6.37%) PL/SQL
3 17 (6.37%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.12%) Bash
4 3 (1.12%) Python
5 2 (0.75%) AWK
5 2 (0.75%) C#
5 2 (0.75%) sed
6 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.37%) C++
6 1 (0.37%) COBOL
6 1 (0.37%) Java
6 1 (0.37%) JCL
6 1 (0.37%) REXX
6 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.37%) VC++
Qualifications
1 100 (37.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (10.86%) DBS Check
3 26 (9.74%) Degree
4 25 (9.36%) Security Cleared
5 19 (7.12%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.37%) OCP
6 9 (3.37%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.87%) OCA
9 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.12%) CIPD
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (27.72%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.75%) Docker
4 2 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) RACF
5 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 10 (3.75%) Ansible
1 10 (3.75%) Oracle RMAN
1 10 (3.75%) Terraform
2 8 (3.00%) Data Guard
2 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (2.62%) Foglight
3 7 (2.62%) Nagios
4 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.37%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Statspack
6 1 (0.37%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 133 (49.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.98%) Oracle
3 19 (7.12%) VMware
4 13 (4.87%) Google
5 7 (2.62%) ArcSight
5 7 (2.62%) HP
6 5 (1.87%) RedGate
7 4 (1.50%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) New Relic
9 2 (0.75%) IFS
9 2 (0.75%) NEC
9 2 (0.75%) Veeam
10 1 (0.37%) BMC
10 1 (0.37%) Commvault
10 1 (0.37%) F5
10 1 (0.37%) IBM
10 1 (0.37%) Lotus
10 1 (0.37%) Novell
10 1 (0.37%) Sun