DBA Jobs in South Wales

Database Administrator
Wales > South Wales

The median Database Administrator salary in South Wales is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 22 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.30% 0.084% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.095% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £41,500 - £47,650
25th Percentile - £35,000 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £40,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.95% +15.82%
75th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £58,337
90th Percentile £59,500 - £62,093
Wales median annual salary £48,000 £38,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +24.68% -24.88% +15.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,550 1,056 1,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 89.11% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 556 870
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in South Wales

DBA
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in South Wales.

Salary trend for DBA in South Wales

DBA
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in South Wales

DBA
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
Newport +12 9 £48,000 +20.00%
Bridgend - 7 - -
Cardiff - 5 £53,750 - 2
DBA
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 South Wales region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 17 (77.27%) Oracle
2 9 (40.91%) Service Delivery
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
4 7 (31.82%) MySQL
4 7 (31.82%) Windows
4 7 (31.82%) Change Management
4 7 (31.82%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (31.82%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (31.82%) Problem Management
4 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
4 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
4 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (31.82%) Incident Response
4 7 (31.82%) OCI
5 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle Database
5 5 (22.73%) Degree
5 5 (22.73%) VMware
5 5 (22.73%) Linux
5 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
5 5 (22.73%) Unix
6 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (13.64%) Middleware
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
7 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Service

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (13.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) OCI
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) MySQL
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Database
2 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Clustering
1 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Service Delivery
2 7 (31.82%) Actionable Insight
2 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (31.82%) Change Management
2 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
2 7 (31.82%) Incident Response
2 7 (31.82%) Problem Management
3 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.09%) Batch Scripting
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (4.55%) Database Mirroring
5 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.55%) High Availability
5 1 (4.55%) Migration
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft