SQL Server DBA Jobs with Work from Home Options

SQL Server Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median SQL Server Database Administrator salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 608 835
Rank change year-on-year +19 +227 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server DBA 13 25 66
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.037% 0.067% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.070% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 63
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile - £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile - £76,750 £68,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +58.14% +2.38% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 Server DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SQL Server DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server 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 Server DBA.

SQL Server DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server DBA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server DBA over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

SQL Server DBA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, SQL Server 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 Server DBA in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) PowerShell
2 12 (92.31%) High Availability
2 12 (92.31%) Finance
2 12 (92.31%) Clustering
2 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
3 11 (84.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (84.62%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (61.54%) Ansible
4 8 (61.54%) GitHub
4 8 (61.54%) Database Security
4 8 (61.54%) Git
4 8 (61.54%) Windows
4 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (53.85%) Task Automation
5 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
5 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (53.85%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (53.85%) HP
5 7 (53.85%) Nagios
5 7 (53.85%) Foglight
5 7 (53.85%) Change Management
5 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
5 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (53.85%) ArcSight
5 7 (53.85%) Power BI
6 6 (46.15%) SQL
7 4 (30.77%) ETL

SQL Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (53.85%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (53.85%) Power BI
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
General
1 12 (92.31%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Clustering
2 4 (30.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) High Availability
2 11 (84.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (84.62%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (61.54%) Database Security
4 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
4 7 (53.85%) Change Management
4 7 (53.85%) Task Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Database Migration
5 4 (30.77%) ETL
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Release Management
6 1 (7.69%) Fintech
6 1 (7.69%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) PowerShell
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (53.85%) Foglight
2 7 (53.85%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) ArcSight
1 7 (53.85%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft