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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 477 669
Rank change year-on-year +26 +192 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 146 158 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 137 146 165
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,700 £40,000
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% +1.01%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
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 33,316 37,036 72,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 95.88% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,385 26,789 42,482
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,481 £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%

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 31 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 31 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.

1 139 (95.21%) SQL
2 133 (91.10%) SQL Server
3 123 (84.25%) Azure
4 110 (75.34%) Social Skills
5 107 (73.29%) Power Platform
5 107 (73.29%) Power BI
6 106 (72.60%) Microsoft
7 102 (69.86%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (68.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 98 (67.12%) T-SQL
10 97 (66.44%) Performance Tuning
11 91 (62.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 87 (59.59%) High Availability
13 77 (52.74%) Collaborative Working
14 76 (52.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 74 (50.68%) Virtual Machines
15 74 (50.68%) Broadband
15 74 (50.68%) VMS
16 45 (30.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (30.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 36 (24.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 32 (21.92%) Migration
20 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
21 26 (17.81%) DBS Check
21 26 (17.81%) Customer Service
21 26 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
22 16 (10.96%) Clustering
23 14 (9.59%) PowerShell
23 14 (9.59%) Windows
24 13 (8.90%) Finance

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 (0.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 123 (84.25%) Azure
2 107 (73.29%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.48%) AWS
3 8 (5.48%) GCP
3 8 (5.48%) GitHub
4 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (50.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (91.10%) SQL Server
2 107 (73.29%) Power BI
3 76 (52.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (30.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 44 (30.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 36 (24.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.42%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Git
General
1 110 (75.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.90%) Finance
3 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.68%) Law
5 1 (0.68%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.96%) Clustering
2 10 (6.85%) Replication
3 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 74 (50.68%) VMS
2 14 (9.59%) Windows
3 7 (4.79%) Linux
3 7 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (69.86%) Business Intelligence
2 97 (66.44%) Performance Tuning
3 91 (62.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 87 (59.59%) High Availability
5 77 (52.74%) Collaborative Working
6 32 (21.92%) Migration
7 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (17.81%) Customer Service
8 26 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (8.22%) Database Tuning
10 11 (7.53%) Change Management
11 10 (6.85%) Task Automation
12 9 (6.16%) Capacity Planning
13 8 (5.48%) Data Security
13 8 (5.48%) Database Security
13 8 (5.48%) ETL
14 7 (4.79%) Business Continuity
14 7 (4.79%) Service Delivery
15 6 (4.11%) Configuration Management
16 5 (3.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 139 (95.21%) SQL
2 98 (67.12%) T-SQL
3 14 (9.59%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.37%) C#
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) Python
Qualifications
1 100 (68.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (17.81%) DBS Check
3 7 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.74%) Degree
4 4 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.05%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 74 (50.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.48%) Ansible
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (4.79%) Foglight
2 7 (4.79%) Nagios
3 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (72.60%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.79%) ArcSight
2 7 (4.79%) HP
3 6 (4.11%) Google
4 5 (3.42%) VMware
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.37%) RedGate
7 1 (0.68%) Commvault
7 1 (0.68%) F5