SQL DBA Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in Work from Home 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 441 501 680
Rank change year-on-year +60 +179 -191
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 150 153 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.39% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 141 142 165
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 32,504 38,918 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24,867 27,740 41,910
10th Percentile £33,081 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

SQL DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL 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 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 a work from home option citing SQL DBA over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring SQL DBA in the job title.

1 143 (95.33%) SQL
2 136 (90.67%) SQL Server
3 126 (84.00%) Azure
4 111 (74.00%) Social Skills
5 107 (71.33%) Power Platform
5 107 (71.33%) Power BI
5 107 (71.33%) Microsoft
6 103 (68.67%) Business Intelligence
7 100 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 100 (66.67%) T-SQL
8 98 (65.33%) Performance Tuning
9 91 (60.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 87 (58.00%) High Availability
11 77 (51.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 77 (51.33%) Collaborative Working
12 74 (49.33%) Virtual Machines
12 74 (49.33%) Broadband
12 74 (49.33%) VMS
13 46 (30.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 45 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (24.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 33 (22.00%) Migration
17 30 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 26 (17.33%) Customer Service
19 26 (17.33%) DBS Check
20 16 (10.67%) Clustering
21 14 (9.33%) Windows
21 14 (9.33%) PowerShell
22 13 (8.67%) Database Tuning

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 126 (84.00%) Azure
2 107 (71.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.00%) AWS
3 9 (6.00%) GCP
4 8 (5.33%) GitHub
5 3 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (49.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (90.67%) SQL Server
2 107 (71.33%) Power BI
3 77 (51.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (30.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 45 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 37 (24.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.33%) MySQL
8 5 (3.33%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.67%) MS Access
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.33%) Git
General
1 111 (74.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.67%) Finance
3 3 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (2.00%) Law
3 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (2.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Clustering
2 10 (6.67%) Replication
3 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 74 (49.33%) VMS
2 14 (9.33%) Windows
3 7 (4.67%) Linux
3 7 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (68.67%) Business Intelligence
2 98 (65.33%) Performance Tuning
3 91 (60.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 87 (58.00%) High Availability
5 77 (51.33%) Collaborative Working
6 33 (22.00%) Migration
7 30 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (17.33%) Customer Service
10 13 (8.67%) Database Tuning
11 11 (7.33%) Change Management
12 10 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
12 10 (6.67%) Task Automation
13 9 (6.00%) ETL
14 8 (5.33%) Data Security
14 8 (5.33%) Database Security
15 7 (4.67%) Business Continuity
15 7 (4.67%) Service Delivery
16 6 (4.00%) Configuration Management
17 5 (3.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 143 (95.33%) SQL
2 100 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 14 (9.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.33%) C#
4 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 100 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (17.33%) DBS Check
3 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.67%) Degree
6 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 74 (49.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.33%) Ansible
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (4.67%) Foglight
2 7 (4.67%) Nagios
3 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (71.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.67%) ArcSight
2 7 (4.67%) HP
2 7 (4.67%) Oracle
3 6 (4.00%) Google
4 5 (3.33%) VMware
5 2 (1.33%) RedGate
6 1 (0.67%) Commvault
6 1 (0.67%) F5