DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London 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 416 408 443
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 383 396 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.67% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.75% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 280 304 359
10th Percentile £42,375 £36,125 £37,358
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,750 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.81% +1.05%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,775 £62,500 £65,000
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the UK excluding London 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% 17
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% 6
East Midlands +12 39 £55,000 - 3
Scotland -46 37 £57,500 +15.00% 4
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
Wales +21 22 £48,000 +24.68% 1
North East +4 18 £52,500 +31.25% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 2
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 298 (77.81%) SQL
2 235 (61.36%) SQL Server
3 197 (51.44%) Azure
4 192 (50.13%) Microsoft
5 163 (42.56%) Social Skills
6 156 (40.73%) Performance Tuning
7 135 (35.25%) Oracle
8 128 (33.42%) T-SQL
9 127 (33.16%) Business Intelligence
10 119 (31.07%) Power BI
10 119 (31.07%) Power Platform
11 116 (30.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 108 (28.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 100 (26.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 92 (24.02%) High Availability
15 90 (23.50%) Linux
16 82 (21.41%) Collaborative Working
17 78 (20.37%) Finance
18 75 (19.58%) Security Cleared
19 74 (19.32%) Broadband
19 74 (19.32%) VMS
19 74 (19.32%) Virtual Machines
20 73 (19.06%) Windows
21 70 (18.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
22 68 (17.75%) Oracle Database
23 67 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
24 65 (16.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
25 62 (16.19%) MySQL
26 60 (15.67%) PowerShell
27 56 (14.62%) Mentoring

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (2.87%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.31%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.78%) MQSeries
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.78%) WildFly
4 2 (0.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) CICS
5 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (3.66%) NEC Housing
2 6 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.04%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 197 (51.44%) Azure
2 119 (31.07%) Power Platform
3 38 (9.92%) AWS
4 24 (6.27%) OCI
5 19 (4.96%) GCP
6 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
7 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.78%) PaaS
8 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.52%) SaaS
8 2 (0.52%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.26%) IaaS
9 1 (0.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (19.32%) Broadband
2 3 (0.78%) HTTP
3 2 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (61.36%) SQL Server
2 119 (31.07%) Power BI
3 100 (26.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (18.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 68 (17.75%) Oracle Database
6 65 (16.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 62 (16.19%) MySQL
8 49 (12.79%) Relational Database
9 48 (12.53%) MongoDB
10 32 (8.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 29 (7.57%) RDBMS
12 21 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
15 14 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (2.61%) DB2
16 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
17 7 (1.83%) OLTP
18 6 (1.57%) MariaDB
19 4 (1.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Git
2 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.26%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 163 (42.56%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.37%) Finance
3 42 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.96%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.18%) Police
6 14 (3.66%) Back Office
6 14 (3.66%) Local Government
7 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (0.78%) Law
9 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.52%) Billing
10 2 (0.52%) German Language
10 2 (0.52%) Legal
10 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Games
11 1 (0.26%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.09%) Middleware
2 4 (1.04%) .NET
2 4 (1.04%) XML
3 3 (0.78%) EDI
4 2 (0.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.52%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.52%) REST
5 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.26%) CSS
5 1 (0.26%) J2EE
5 1 (0.26%) JSON
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.09%) Replication
2 22 (5.74%) Clustering
3 20 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.92%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.61%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.57%) Learning Management System
8 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.57%) PMI
9 5 (1.31%) NHS
10 4 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.52%) Photography
13 1 (0.26%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 90 (23.50%) Linux
2 74 (19.32%) VMS
3 73 (19.06%) Windows
4 36 (9.40%) Unix
5 34 (8.88%) CentOS
5 34 (8.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 32 (8.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (8.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.04%) AIX
8 4 (1.04%) SUSE
9 2 (0.52%) Debian
9 2 (0.52%) zOS
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (40.73%) Performance Tuning
2 127 (33.16%) Business Intelligence
3 116 (30.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 92 (24.02%) High Availability
5 82 (21.41%) Collaborative Working
6 67 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (14.62%) Mentoring
8 53 (13.84%) Database Tuning
9 48 (12.53%) Migration
10 45 (11.75%) Customer Service
11 44 (11.49%) Actionable Insight
12 42 (10.97%) Performance Monitoring
13 36 (9.40%) Capacity Planning
13 36 (9.40%) Storage Management
14 35 (9.14%) Database Security
15 32 (8.36%) Capacity Management
15 32 (8.36%) User Experience
16 31 (8.09%) Problem Management
17 30 (7.83%) Computer Science
18 28 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 298 (77.81%) SQL
2 128 (33.42%) T-SQL
3 60 (15.67%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.14%) Bash
5 29 (7.57%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.57%) C#
6 6 (1.57%) Python
7 2 (0.52%) AWK
7 2 (0.52%) Java
7 2 (0.52%) sed
7 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.26%) C++
8 1 (0.26%) COBOL
8 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.26%) JCL
8 1 (0.26%) PHP
8 1 (0.26%) ProC
8 1 (0.26%) REXX
8 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 108 (28.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 75 (19.58%) Security Cleared
3 50 (13.05%) Degree
4 43 (11.23%) Oracle Certification
5 32 (8.36%) DV Cleared
6 30 (7.83%) DBS Check
7 29 (7.57%) OCP
8 24 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (5.48%) SC Cleared
10 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.09%) OCA
12 6 (1.57%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.78%) CIPD
14 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.52%) MCITP
14 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
15 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.70%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.78%) QA
3 3 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (19.32%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (2.61%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.52%) vSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Docker
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
5 1 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 16 (4.18%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (2.35%) Data Guard
3 6 (1.57%) Ansible
3 6 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (0.78%) Perfmon
4 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Statspack
6 1 (0.26%) Foglight
6 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.26%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 192 (50.13%) Microsoft
2 135 (35.25%) Oracle
3 34 (8.88%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.44%) VMware
5 15 (3.92%) Commvault
5 15 (3.92%) Google
6 14 (3.66%) NEC
7 8 (2.09%) RedGate
8 4 (1.04%) IBM
8 4 (1.04%) SAP
9 3 (0.78%) New Relic
10 2 (0.52%) Civica
10 2 (0.52%) IFS
10 2 (0.52%) Progress
10 2 (0.52%) Veeam
10 2 (0.52%) Zoho
11 1 (0.26%) BT
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco
11 1 (0.26%) HP
11 1 (0.26%) Sybase