SQL DBA Jobs in England

SQL Database Administrator
UK > England

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in England is £57,500 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 699 648 850
Rank change year-on-year -51 +202 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 166 256 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 157 217 294
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £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 £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £66,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £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%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL DBA in England.

Salary trend for SQL DBA in England

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in England

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the England 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
North of England +22 51 £57,500 +4.55% 8
North West 0 29 £55,000 +4.76% 1
South East -47 28 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Midlands -21 27 £57,500 +15.00% 5
South West -14 26 £57,500 +40.59%
London +91 23 £75,000 +25.00% 5
West Midlands -31 15 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -9 12 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire +39 11 £57,500 +4.55% 2
North East -1 11 £57,500 - 5
East of England -20 11 £57,500 +9.52% 2
SQL DBA
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 158 (95.18%) SQL
2 145 (87.35%) SQL Server
3 137 (82.53%) Azure
4 107 (64.46%) T-SQL
5 106 (63.86%) Microsoft
6 101 (60.84%) Social Skills
7 100 (60.24%) Power Platform
7 100 (60.24%) Power BI
8 92 (55.42%) Performance Tuning
9 88 (53.01%) Business Intelligence
10 85 (51.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 84 (50.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 83 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 74 (44.58%) High Availability
14 71 (42.77%) Collaborative Working
15 63 (37.95%) Virtual Machines
15 63 (37.95%) Broadband
15 63 (37.95%) VMS
16 58 (34.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 58 (34.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 36 (21.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
20 25 (15.06%) Finance
21 22 (13.25%) Migration
22 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
22 20 (12.05%) Customer Service
22 20 (12.05%) DBS Check
23 18 (10.84%) AWS
24 17 (10.24%) Data Warehouse

SQL 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 3 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.20%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.20%) WildFly
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 137 (82.53%) Azure
2 100 (60.24%) Power Platform
3 18 (10.84%) AWS
4 10 (6.02%) GCP
5 8 (4.82%) GitHub
6 3 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.20%) Serverless
8 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (37.95%) Broadband
2 1 (0.60%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (87.35%) SQL Server
2 100 (60.24%) Power BI
3 84 (50.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (34.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 58 (34.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (21.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 17 (10.24%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (8.43%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.02%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.01%) Looker
9 5 (3.01%) MySQL
9 5 (3.01%) Tableau
10 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.20%) OLTP
11 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.20%) SSDT
11 2 (1.20%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Git
General
1 101 (60.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.06%) Finance
3 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
4 4 (2.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.81%) Retail
6 1 (0.60%) Law
6 1 (0.60%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.20%) .NET
1 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
1 2 (1.20%) REST
1 2 (1.20%) XML
2 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.60%) CSS
2 1 (0.60%) EDI
2 1 (0.60%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.04%) Clustering
2 13 (7.83%) Replication
3 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 63 (37.95%) VMS
2 14 (8.43%) Windows
3 9 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (55.42%) Performance Tuning
2 88 (53.01%) Business Intelligence
3 83 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 74 (44.58%) High Availability
5 71 (42.77%) Collaborative Working
6 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (13.25%) Migration
8 20 (12.05%) Customer Service
8 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (8.43%) Database Tuning
10 13 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (7.83%) Mentoring
11 11 (6.63%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.63%) Database Security
12 10 (6.02%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (6.02%) Server Patching
12 10 (6.02%) Task Automation
13 9 (5.42%) Change Management
14 8 (4.82%) Configuration Management
14 8 (4.82%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 158 (95.18%) SQL
2 107 (64.46%) T-SQL
3 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.41%) C#
5 1 (0.60%) PHP
5 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 85 (51.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (12.05%) DBS Check
3 13 (7.83%) Degree
4 7 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.01%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) MCSA
7 2 (1.20%) MCSE
7 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 63 (37.95%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.82%) Ansible
1 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Clustering
2 7 (4.22%) Foglight
2 7 (4.22%) Nagios
3 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (1.20%) SCOM
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (63.86%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.24%) Commvault
3 8 (4.82%) Google
4 7 (4.22%) ArcSight
4 7 (4.22%) HP
5 5 (3.01%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) Databricks
6 2 (1.20%) NetApp
6 2 (1.20%) RedGate
6 2 (1.20%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) F5