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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 499 571
Rank change year-on-year +42 +72 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 437 490 758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.64% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 322 402 521
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,698
25th Percentile £50,750 £43,750 £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 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,675 £72,875 £73,750
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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +53 114 £55,000 +5.77% 16
London +90 87 £70,000 +10.24% 16
South West -2 72 £57,500 +9.32% 10
Midlands -9 72 £57,500 +15.00% 9
South East -60 61 £57,500 +4.55% 8
North West +11 57 £55,000 +8.37% 6
East Midlands +9 34 £55,000 +5.03% 2
West Midlands -34 34 £60,000 +20.00% 7
North East +4 29 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Yorkshire +44 28 £57,500 +4.55% 5
East of England -25 26 £57,500 +9.52% 6
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 304 (69.57%) SQL
2 244 (55.84%) SQL Server
3 192 (43.94%) Microsoft
4 191 (43.71%) Azure
5 174 (39.82%) Social Skills
6 165 (37.76%) Performance Tuning
7 143 (32.72%) T-SQL
8 140 (32.04%) Oracle
9 119 (27.23%) Disaster Recovery
10 114 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
11 109 (24.94%) Finance
12 107 (24.49%) Power BI
12 107 (24.49%) Power Platform
13 98 (22.43%) High Availability
14 94 (21.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 90 (20.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 89 (20.37%) Azure SQL Database
16 89 (20.37%) Linux
17 88 (20.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 82 (18.76%) Collaborative Working
19 77 (17.62%) Security Cleared
19 77 (17.62%) PowerShell
20 76 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
21 74 (16.93%) MySQL
22 73 (16.70%) AWS
23 71 (16.25%) Windows
24 69 (15.79%) Oracle Database
25 66 (15.10%) Mentoring
26 63 (14.42%) Virtual Machines
26 63 (14.42%) VMS

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 5 (1.14%) WebLogic
2 4 (0.92%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.69%) MQSeries
3 3 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.69%) WildFly
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
4 2 (0.46%) IIS
4 2 (0.46%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (4.81%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.69%) Maximo
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 191 (43.71%) Azure
2 107 (24.49%) Power Platform
3 73 (16.70%) AWS
4 23 (5.26%) OCI
5 19 (4.35%) GCP
6 10 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (2.29%) SaaS
7 9 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (2.06%) Datadog
8 8 (1.83%) GitHub
8 8 (1.83%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.37%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.69%) PaaS
12 2 (0.46%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (14.42%) Broadband
2 5 (1.14%) DAB
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
4 2 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.23%) Firewall
5 1 (0.23%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (55.84%) SQL Server
2 107 (24.49%) Power BI
3 90 (20.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 89 (20.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 88 (20.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 74 (16.93%) MySQL
7 69 (15.79%) Oracle Database
8 62 (14.19%) MongoDB
9 51 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
10 49 (11.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 43 (9.84%) Relational Database
12 27 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (5.72%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (5.03%) Oracle Database 12c
15 18 (4.12%) NoSQL
15 18 (4.12%) RDBMS
16 14 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (2.29%) DB2
18 7 (1.60%) OLTP
19 6 (1.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (4.35%) Git
2 7 (1.60%) Mercurial
3 6 (1.37%) JIRA
4 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
General
1 174 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 109 (24.94%) Finance
3 48 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.81%) Back Office
5 21 (4.81%) Local Government
5 21 (4.81%) Police
6 17 (3.89%) Retail
7 12 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.06%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Billing
11 2 (0.46%) German Language
11 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.23%) Games
12 1 (0.23%) Law
12 1 (0.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.60%) .NET
2 6 (1.37%) Middleware
2 6 (1.37%) XML
3 4 (0.92%) Entity Framework
4 3 (0.69%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.69%) EDI
5 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.46%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.23%) CSS
6 1 (0.23%) J2EE
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.38%) Replication
2 33 (7.55%) Clustering
3 27 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (5.03%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.37%) NHS
8 6 (1.37%) PMI
9 5 (1.14%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.46%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.46%) Photography
12 1 (0.23%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.23%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 89 (20.37%) Linux
2 71 (16.25%) Windows
3 63 (14.42%) VMS
4 37 (8.47%) CentOS
4 37 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (8.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 35 (8.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (7.55%) Unix
7 11 (2.52%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.14%) Debian
9 5 (1.14%) SUSE
10 4 (0.92%) AIX
10 4 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.46%) Solaris
11 2 (0.46%) zOS
12 1 (0.23%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (37.76%) Performance Tuning
2 119 (27.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 114 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (22.43%) High Availability
5 82 (18.76%) Collaborative Working
6 76 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (15.10%) Mentoring
8 58 (13.27%) Database Tuning
9 51 (11.67%) Customer Service
10 46 (10.53%) Migration
11 44 (10.07%) Performance Monitoring
12 43 (9.84%) Database Security
13 41 (9.38%) ITIL
13 41 (9.38%) Storage Management
14 35 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
14 35 (8.01%) Capacity Management
14 35 (8.01%) User Experience
15 30 (6.86%) Capacity Planning
16 29 (6.64%) Data Management
16 29 (6.64%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 304 (69.57%) SQL
2 143 (32.72%) T-SQL
3 77 (17.62%) PowerShell
4 37 (8.47%) Bash
5 25 (5.72%) PL/SQL
6 9 (2.06%) Python
7 8 (1.83%) C#
8 7 (1.60%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.69%) CQL
9 3 (0.69%) Java
10 2 (0.46%) AWK
10 2 (0.46%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.46%) sed
11 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.23%) COBOL
11 1 (0.23%) JCL
11 1 (0.23%) ProC
11 1 (0.23%) VBScript
11 1 (0.23%) VC++
Qualifications
1 94 (21.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 77 (17.62%) Security Cleared
3 56 (12.81%) Degree
4 43 (9.84%) Oracle Certification
5 38 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (5.49%) DBS Check
8 22 (5.03%) OCP
9 10 (2.29%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.37%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.92%) OCA
13 3 (0.69%) CIPD
14 2 (0.46%) MCITP
14 2 (0.46%) MCSA
14 2 (0.46%) MCSE
14 2 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
15 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.03%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.75%) SLA
3 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 63 (14.42%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.46%) Docker
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) RACF
6 1 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (3.20%) Ansible
1 14 (3.20%) Foglight
2 13 (2.97%) Terraform
3 11 (2.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (2.06%) Data Guard
5 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (1.60%) Nagios
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.46%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.46%) Oracle Statspack
10 2 (0.46%) SCOM
10 2 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.23%) MAINVIEW
11 1 (0.23%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 192 (43.94%) Microsoft
2 140 (32.04%) Oracle
3 37 (8.47%) Red Hat
4 21 (4.81%) NEC
5 17 (3.89%) Commvault
5 17 (3.89%) Google
6 11 (2.52%) VMware
7 10 (2.29%) Veeam
8 9 (2.06%) Dell
8 9 (2.06%) RedGate
9 8 (1.83%) HP
10 7 (1.60%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.60%) ArcSight
11 6 (1.37%) IBM
12 4 (0.92%) SAP
13 3 (0.69%) New Relic
14 2 (0.46%) Civica
14 2 (0.46%) IFS
14 2 (0.46%) NetApp
14 2 (0.46%) Progress