DBA Jobs in the East Midlands

Database Administrator
England > East Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 165 167
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 34 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.69% 0.37% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.42% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 27
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,229 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,875 £43,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,365 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +4.73% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,375
90th Percentile - - £66,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,680 2,387 3,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 88.47% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,308 1,263 2,128
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £56,000 £63,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the East Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for DBA in the East Midlands

DBA
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Nottinghamshire -15 15 £55,000 +22.22%
Northamptonshire - 8 £53,750 -
Leicestershire - 6 £57,500 - 1
Derbyshire -3 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £57,500 -
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 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 East Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 23 (67.65%) Azure
3 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
4 18 (52.94%) Linux
4 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
5 16 (47.06%) Oracle
6 15 (44.12%) Oracle Database
6 15 (44.12%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
10 10 (29.41%) Power Platform
10 10 (29.41%) Power BI
10 10 (29.41%) OCP
10 10 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
11 9 (26.47%) Database Security
11 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (23.53%) DevOps
12 8 (23.53%) AWS
13 6 (17.65%) Windows
13 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
13 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (17.65%) GCP
13 6 (17.65%) Patch Management
13 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
13 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
13 6 (17.65%) Azure Certification
14 5 (14.71%) OCI

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (11.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 8 (23.53%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 5 (14.71%) OCI
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (44.12%) Oracle Database
3 10 (29.41%) Power BI
4 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (14.71%) MariaDB
6 4 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (8.82%) Metadata
7 3 (8.82%) MySQL
7 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.88%) CouchDB
8 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (5.88%) Ingres
8 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) German Language
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) VMS
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Debian
4 2 (5.88%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (26.47%) Database Security
3 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) Patch Management
5 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
7 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (11.76%) High Availability
8 3 (8.82%) Agile
8 3 (8.82%) Benchmarking
8 3 (8.82%) Data Security
8 3 (8.82%) Performance Metrics
8 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) T-SQL
3 2 (5.88%) AWK
3 2 (5.88%) Bash
3 2 (5.88%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) sed
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (29.41%) OCP
2 10 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (11.76%) OCA
5 3 (8.82%) DBS Check
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Data Guard
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Statspack
2 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (47.06%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) Veeam