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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 495 568
Rank change year-on-year +30 +73 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 412 497 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.61% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 304 406 528
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,449 £38,600
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 £74,750 £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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +42 96 £55,000 +3.77% 16
London +89 86 £67,500 +6.30% 20
Midlands -9 74 £57,500 +15.00% 15
South West +3 69 £57,500 +11.65% 3
South East -41 59 £57,500 +8.49% 18
North West +16 53 £55,000 +3.77% 5
East Midlands +12 39 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands -21 31 £57,500 +15.00% 12
Yorkshire +66 25 £54,500 -0.91% 5
East of England -16 24 £57,500 +4.55% 6
North East +4 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 20 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.

1 299 (72.57%) SQL
2 248 (60.19%) SQL Server
3 191 (46.36%) Microsoft
4 188 (45.63%) Azure
5 168 (40.78%) Performance Tuning
6 166 (40.29%) Social Skills
7 144 (34.95%) T-SQL
8 136 (33.01%) Oracle
9 118 (28.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 115 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
11 108 (26.21%) Finance
12 106 (25.73%) Power BI
12 106 (25.73%) Power Platform
13 95 (23.06%) High Availability
14 94 (22.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 91 (22.09%) Azure SQL Database
16 90 (21.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 87 (21.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 84 (20.39%) Linux
19 80 (19.42%) Collaborative Working
20 75 (18.20%) Security Cleared
21 73 (17.72%) Oracle Database
22 72 (17.48%) PowerShell
22 72 (17.48%) MySQL
23 70 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
24 69 (16.75%) Windows
25 68 (16.50%) AWS
26 63 (15.29%) Broadband
26 63 (15.29%) VMS
26 63 (15.29%) 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 (1.70%) WebLogic
2 3 (0.73%) MQSeries
2 3 (0.73%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.73%) Tomcat
2 3 (0.73%) WebSphere
2 3 (0.73%) WildFly
3 2 (0.49%) IIS
3 2 (0.49%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) CICS
4 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (5.10%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.73%) Maximo
3 2 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 188 (45.63%) Azure
2 106 (25.73%) Power Platform
3 68 (16.50%) AWS
4 20 (4.85%) GCP
4 20 (4.85%) OCI
5 9 (2.18%) Datadog
6 8 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (1.94%) GitHub
7 7 (1.70%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.46%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.97%) SaaS
11 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.73%) PaaS
11 3 (0.73%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.29%) Broadband
2 5 (1.21%) DAB
3 3 (0.73%) HTTP
4 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.49%) SSL
4 2 (0.49%) 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 (60.19%) SQL Server
2 106 (25.73%) Power BI
3 91 (22.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 90 (21.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 87 (21.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 73 (17.72%) Oracle Database
7 72 (17.48%) MySQL
8 54 (13.11%) MongoDB
9 48 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (11.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 44 (10.68%) Relational Database
11 27 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (5.34%) Oracle Database 12c
13 21 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (4.37%) RDBMS
15 14 (3.40%) NoSQL
16 10 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (2.43%) DB2
17 8 (1.94%) OLTP
18 6 (1.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (4.61%) Git
2 7 (1.70%) Mercurial
3 6 (1.46%) JIRA
4 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
General
1 166 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 108 (26.21%) Finance
3 48 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.10%) Back Office
5 21 (5.10%) Local Government
5 21 (5.10%) Police
6 12 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.18%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.94%) Retail
9 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.73%) Law
10 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Billing
11 2 (0.49%) German Language
11 2 (0.49%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.24%) Games
12 1 (0.24%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.70%) .NET
1 7 (1.70%) XML
2 6 (1.46%) Middleware
3 3 (0.73%) .NET Framework
3 3 (0.73%) EDI
4 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.49%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.49%) REST
5 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.24%) CSS
5 1 (0.24%) J2EE
5 1 (0.24%) JSON
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.47%) Replication
2 34 (8.25%) Clustering
3 27 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.34%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.46%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.46%) NHS
8 6 (1.46%) PMI
9 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.49%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.49%) Photography
12 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.24%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.24%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.39%) Linux
2 69 (16.75%) Windows
3 63 (15.29%) VMS
4 34 (8.25%) CentOS
4 34 (8.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 33 (8.01%) Unix
6 32 (7.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.67%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.21%) Debian
9 4 (0.97%) AIX
9 4 (0.97%) SUSE
10 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.49%) zOS
12 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (40.78%) Performance Tuning
2 118 (28.64%) Disaster Recovery
3 115 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
4 95 (23.06%) High Availability
5 80 (19.42%) Collaborative Working
6 70 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (15.29%) Mentoring
8 56 (13.59%) Database Tuning
9 51 (12.38%) Customer Service
10 46 (11.17%) Migration
11 44 (10.68%) Database Security
12 41 (9.95%) ITIL
12 41 (9.95%) Performance Monitoring
13 37 (8.98%) Storage Management
14 35 (8.50%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (7.77%) Capacity Management
15 32 (7.77%) User Experience
16 31 (7.52%) Capacity Planning
17 30 (7.28%) Problem Management
18 29 (7.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 299 (72.57%) SQL
2 144 (34.95%) T-SQL
3 72 (17.48%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.25%) Bash
5 28 (6.80%) PL/SQL
6 10 (2.43%) C#
7 9 (2.18%) Python
8 7 (1.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.73%) CQL
9 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.49%) AWK
10 2 (0.49%) Java
10 2 (0.49%) sed
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) COBOL
11 1 (0.24%) JCL
11 1 (0.24%) PHP
11 1 (0.24%) ProC
11 1 (0.24%) REXX
11 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 94 (22.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 75 (18.20%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.62%) Degree
4 46 (11.17%) Oracle Certification
5 34 (8.25%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.07%) OCP
7 24 (5.83%) DBS Check
8 23 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.91%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.46%) OCA
11 6 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.73%) CIPD
13 2 (0.49%) MCITP
13 2 (0.49%) MCSA
13 2 (0.49%) MCSE
13 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.58%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.73%) QA
4 3 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (15.29%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (2.67%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.97%) vSphere
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.24%) Docker
6 1 (0.24%) RACF
6 1 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (3.40%) Ansible
1 14 (3.40%) Foglight
1 14 (3.40%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (2.91%) Data Guard
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Clustering
3 9 (2.18%) Terraform
4 7 (1.70%) Nagios
5 5 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Statspack
8 2 (0.49%) SCOM
9 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.24%) MAINVIEW
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 191 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 136 (33.01%) Oracle
3 34 (8.25%) Red Hat
4 21 (5.10%) NEC
5 17 (4.13%) Commvault
6 16 (3.88%) Google
7 11 (2.67%) VMware
8 9 (2.18%) RedGate
9 8 (1.94%) HP
9 8 (1.94%) Veeam
10 7 (1.70%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.70%) ArcSight
10 7 (1.70%) Dell
11 4 (0.97%) IBM
11 4 (0.97%) SAP
12 3 (0.73%) New Relic
13 2 (0.49%) Civica
13 2 (0.49%) IFS
13 2 (0.49%) NetApp
13 2 (0.49%) Progress