DBA Jobs in the North of England

Database Administrator
England > North of England

The median Database Administrator salary in the North of England 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 283 338 277
Rank change year-on-year +55 -61 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 114 92 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 0.57% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.64% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 96 86 143
10th Percentile £31,875 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +20.93% -9.47%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,063 £57,500
90th Percentile - £63,125 £63,500
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the North of England.

Salary trend for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for DBA in the North of England

DBA
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the North of 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 West +19 57 £55,000 +8.37% 5
North East +5 29 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Yorkshire +47 28 £57,500 +4.55% 5
DBA
England

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

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 North of England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 77 (67.54%) SQL
2 73 (64.04%) SQL Server
3 59 (51.75%) Social Skills
4 52 (45.61%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (44.74%) Microsoft
6 50 (43.86%) Azure
7 45 (39.47%) T-SQL
8 44 (38.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 37 (32.46%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (26.32%) High Availability
12 29 (25.44%) Finance
13 27 (23.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (23.68%) Oracle
13 27 (23.68%) Power BI
13 27 (23.68%) Power Platform
14 26 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
16 21 (18.42%) Virtual Machines
16 21 (18.42%) Broadband
16 21 (18.42%) VMS
17 20 (17.54%) Relational Database
17 20 (17.54%) Oracle Database
18 19 (16.67%) MySQL
19 18 (15.79%) Data Management
19 18 (15.79%) AWS
20 17 (14.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 17 (14.91%) Degree
20 17 (14.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (0.88%) CICS
Business Applications
1 7 (6.14%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.86%) Azure
2 27 (23.68%) Power Platform
3 18 (15.79%) AWS
4 11 (9.65%) OCI
5 6 (5.26%) SaaS
6 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.63%) PaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (64.04%) SQL Server
2 44 (38.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (23.68%) Power BI
4 20 (17.54%) Oracle Database
4 20 (17.54%) Relational Database
5 19 (16.67%) MySQL
6 17 (14.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (14.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (12.28%) RDBMS
9 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
10 11 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (7.89%) NoSQL
12 7 (6.14%) Oracle Database 12c
13 6 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (2.63%) DB2
15 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
16 1 (0.88%) Easytrieve
16 1 (0.88%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (51.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Finance
3 16 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.89%) Retail
6 7 (6.14%) Back Office
6 7 (6.14%) Local Government
6 7 (6.14%) Police
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.88%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) Entity Framework
1 3 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.77%) Replication
3 7 (6.14%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.26%) Clustering
4 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.26%) PMI
5 3 (2.63%) NHS
5 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.42%) VMS
2 10 (8.77%) Unix
3 7 (6.14%) Linux
4 3 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.63%) Windows
5 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.61%) Performance Tuning
2 38 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 37 (32.46%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (26.32%) High Availability
5 26 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
7 18 (15.79%) Data Management
8 14 (12.28%) Proactive Monitoring
9 13 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.40%) Customer Service
10 12 (10.53%) Service Delivery
11 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
11 11 (9.65%) Database Security
11 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (8.77%) Problem Management
12 10 (8.77%) Server Patching
13 9 (7.89%) Database Tuning
13 9 (7.89%) ITIL
14 8 (7.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (67.54%) SQL
2 45 (39.47%) T-SQL
3 15 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.02%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.75%) Java
6 1 (0.88%) COBOL
6 1 (0.88%) JCL
6 1 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (14.91%) Degree
3 15 (13.16%) Oracle Certification
4 14 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
6 9 (7.89%) DBS Check
7 8 (7.02%) OCP
8 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.63%) CIPD
9 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) SLA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (18.42%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.88%) RACF
2 1 (0.88%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.75%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Foglight
3 1 (0.88%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 51 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 27 (23.68%) Oracle
3 15 (13.16%) Commvault
4 7 (6.14%) NEC
5 3 (2.63%) New Relic
5 3 (2.63%) RedGate
5 3 (2.63%) VMware
6 2 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) BMC
7 1 (0.88%) YouTube