DBA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Database Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Database Administrator salary in Work from Home 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 348 372 540
Rank change year-on-year +24 +168 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 268 289 378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.75% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.78% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 230 248 325
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,309 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £67,500 £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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +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%

DBA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DBA trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 DBA.

DBA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DBA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DBA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

DBA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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 jobs with remote work options featuring DBA in the job title.

1 201 (75.00%) SQL
2 178 (66.42%) SQL Server
3 149 (55.60%) Azure
4 130 (48.51%) Microsoft
4 130 (48.51%) Social Skills
5 125 (46.64%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (44.40%) Performance Tuning
7 114 (42.54%) T-SQL
8 110 (41.04%) Power BI
8 110 (41.04%) Power Platform
9 107 (39.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 100 (37.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 99 (36.94%) High Availability
12 83 (30.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 77 (28.73%) Collaborative Working
14 74 (27.61%) Virtual Machines
14 74 (27.61%) Broadband
14 74 (27.61%) VMS
15 57 (21.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 56 (20.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 55 (20.52%) MySQL
18 49 (18.28%) Migration
19 47 (17.54%) Oracle
20 45 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
21 40 (14.93%) Windows
21 40 (14.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 39 (14.55%) Linux
23 38 (14.18%) AWS
24 36 (13.43%) Capacity Planning
25 34 (12.69%) Customer Service

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.24%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.37%) Apache
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.37%) CICS
2 1 (0.37%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 149 (55.60%) Azure
2 110 (41.04%) Power Platform
3 38 (14.18%) AWS
4 14 (5.22%) GCP
5 9 (3.36%) Datadog
6 8 (2.99%) GitHub
7 4 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.49%) OCI
7 4 (1.49%) SaaS
7 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.12%) PaaS
9 2 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (27.61%) Broadband
2 5 (1.87%) DAB
3 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (66.42%) SQL Server
2 110 (41.04%) Power BI
3 83 (30.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (21.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 56 (20.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 55 (20.52%) MySQL
7 40 (14.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 33 (12.31%) Relational Database
9 24 (8.96%) Oracle Database
10 23 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (6.72%) MongoDB
12 17 (6.34%) RDBMS
13 14 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (5.22%) NoSQL
14 13 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (2.61%) DB2
17 5 (1.87%) MariaDB
18 4 (1.49%) DynamoDB
18 4 (1.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (5.22%) Git
2 4 (1.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.49%) Mercurial
2 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
General
1 130 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.19%) Finance
3 24 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.36%) Tech for Good
5 5 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.49%) Banking
6 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.49%) Police
6 4 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.12%) Law
7 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.75%) German Language
9 1 (0.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.87%) Middleware
2 2 (0.75%) EDI
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.70%) Clustering
2 24 (8.96%) Replication
3 11 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.24%) PMI
4 6 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.12%) NHS
5 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.61%) VMS
2 40 (14.93%) Windows
3 39 (14.55%) Linux
4 21 (7.84%) Unix
5 8 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.49%) AIX
6 4 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.12%) SUSE
8 2 (0.75%) CentOS
8 2 (0.75%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) zOS
9 1 (0.37%) NetWare
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (46.64%) Business Intelligence
2 119 (44.40%) Performance Tuning
3 107 (39.93%) Disaster Recovery
4 99 (36.94%) High Availability
5 77 (28.73%) Collaborative Working
6 49 (18.28%) Migration
7 45 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.43%) Capacity Planning
9 34 (12.69%) Customer Service
10 29 (10.82%) Change Management
11 26 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (8.58%) Service Delivery
13 22 (8.21%) Task Automation
14 20 (7.46%) Incident Management
14 20 (7.46%) Incident Response
14 20 (7.46%) Problem Management
15 19 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (6.72%) Actionable Insight
16 18 (6.72%) Database Tuning
17 16 (5.97%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (75.00%) SQL
2 114 (42.54%) T-SQL
3 17 (6.34%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.97%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.12%) Bash
5 3 (1.12%) Python
6 2 (0.75%) AWK
6 2 (0.75%) C#
6 2 (0.75%) sed
7 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) JCL
7 1 (0.37%) REXX
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) VC++
Qualifications
1 100 (37.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (10.82%) DBS Check
2 29 (10.82%) Degree
3 24 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.61%) OCP
5 7 (2.61%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (2.24%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.12%) CIPD
8 3 (1.12%) OCA
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (27.61%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.75%) Docker
4 2 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) RACF
5 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (4.85%) Terraform
2 10 (3.73%) Ansible
3 9 (3.36%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (2.61%) Foglight
5 7 (2.61%) Nagios
6 6 (2.24%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.37%) MAINVIEW
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Statspack
9 1 (0.37%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 130 (48.51%) Microsoft
2 47 (17.54%) Oracle
3 19 (7.09%) VMware
4 13 (4.85%) Google
5 7 (2.61%) ArcSight
5 7 (2.61%) HP
6 5 (1.87%) RedGate
7 4 (1.49%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) New Relic
9 2 (0.75%) IFS
9 2 (0.75%) NEC
9 2 (0.75%) Veeam
10 1 (0.37%) BMC
10 1 (0.37%) Commvault
10 1 (0.37%) F5
10 1 (0.37%) IBM
10 1 (0.37%) Lotus
10 1 (0.37%) Novell
10 1 (0.37%) Sun