DBA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Database Administrator salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 400 458
Rank change year-on-year +5 +58 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 412 394 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.70% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.79% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 302 303 363
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,690
25th Percentile £48,309 £40,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £64,919
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,584 50,145 71,219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.91% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,010 29,573 42,922
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the UK excluding London

DBA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +46 113 £55,000 +5.77% 16
South West +2 73 £57,500 +9.32% 9
Midlands -18 71 £57,500 +15.00% 9
South East -33 61 £57,500 +4.55% 8
North West +10 56 £55,000 +8.37% 6
Scotland -54 39 £57,500 +15.00% 3
East Midlands +12 34 £55,000 +5.03% 2
West Midlands -30 33 £58,750 +17.50% 7
North East +2 29 £45,000 +12.50% 5
Yorkshire +46 28 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Wales +26 27 £48,000 +24.68% 2
East of England -28 26 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Northern Ireland +20 2 £77,500 +158.33%
DBA
UK

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 303 (73.54%) SQL
2 230 (55.83%) SQL Server
3 200 (48.54%) Azure
4 191 (46.36%) Microsoft
5 172 (41.75%) Social Skills
6 152 (36.89%) Performance Tuning
7 142 (34.47%) Oracle
8 126 (30.58%) Business Intelligence
9 125 (30.34%) T-SQL
10 120 (29.13%) Power Platform
10 120 (29.13%) Power BI
11 116 (28.16%) Disaster Recovery
12 108 (26.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 98 (23.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 95 (23.06%) Linux
15 94 (22.82%) High Availability
16 82 (19.90%) Collaborative Working
17 78 (18.93%) Finance
18 77 (18.69%) Security Cleared
19 76 (18.45%) Windows
20 74 (17.96%) Broadband
20 74 (17.96%) VMS
20 74 (17.96%) Virtual Machines
21 73 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
22 69 (16.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
23 66 (16.02%) Oracle Database
24 63 (15.29%) PowerShell
24 63 (15.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
24 63 (15.29%) MySQL
25 58 (14.08%) Mentoring

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (2.67%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.21%) WebSphere
3 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.97%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.73%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 3 (0.73%) WildFly
5 2 (0.49%) Apache
5 2 (0.49%) IIS
5 2 (0.49%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (3.40%) NEC Housing
2 12 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.97%) Maximo
4 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.24%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 200 (48.54%) Azure
2 120 (29.13%) Power Platform
3 42 (10.19%) AWS
4 30 (7.28%) OCI
5 18 (4.37%) GCP
6 8 (1.94%) SaaS
7 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.73%) PaaS
8 3 (0.73%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.49%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.96%) Broadband
2 3 (0.73%) HTTP
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (55.83%) SQL Server
2 120 (29.13%) Power BI
3 98 (23.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (16.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 66 (16.02%) Oracle Database
6 63 (15.29%) MySQL
6 63 (15.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 56 (13.59%) MongoDB
8 48 (11.65%) Relational Database
9 31 (7.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 29 (7.04%) RDBMS
11 24 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (3.88%) Oracle Database 12c
14 14 (3.40%) NoSQL
15 9 (2.18%) DB2
16 6 (1.46%) MariaDB
16 6 (1.46%) OLTP
17 5 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Git
2 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.24%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.93%) Finance
3 42 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.85%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.88%) Police
6 15 (3.64%) Retail
7 14 (3.40%) Back Office
7 14 (3.40%) Local Government
8 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Billing
10 2 (0.49%) German Language
10 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.43%) Middleware
2 4 (0.97%) .NET
2 4 (0.97%) Entity Framework
3 3 (0.73%) EDI
4 2 (0.49%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.49%) REST
4 2 (0.49%) XML
5 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.24%) CSS
5 1 (0.24%) J2EE
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.01%) Replication
2 20 (4.85%) Clustering
2 20 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.46%) PMI
8 5 (1.21%) Learning Management System
8 5 (1.21%) NHS
9 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.49%) Photography
11 1 (0.24%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 95 (23.06%) Linux
2 76 (18.45%) Windows
3 74 (17.96%) VMS
4 37 (8.98%) CentOS
4 37 (8.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 36 (8.74%) Unix
6 35 (8.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (8.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.21%) SUSE
9 4 (0.97%) AIX
9 4 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.49%) Debian
10 2 (0.49%) Solaris
11 1 (0.24%) NetWare
11 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (36.89%) Performance Tuning
2 126 (30.58%) Business Intelligence
3 116 (28.16%) Disaster Recovery
4 94 (22.82%) High Availability
5 82 (19.90%) Collaborative Working
6 73 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (14.08%) Mentoring
8 55 (13.35%) Database Tuning
9 48 (11.65%) Migration
10 46 (11.17%) Customer Service
11 44 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
11 44 (10.68%) Performance Monitoring
12 40 (9.71%) Storage Management
13 35 (8.50%) Capacity Management
13 35 (8.50%) User Experience
14 34 (8.25%) Capacity Planning
15 33 (8.01%) Database Security
16 31 (7.52%) Problem Management
17 30 (7.28%) Service Delivery
18 29 (7.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 303 (73.54%) SQL
2 125 (30.34%) T-SQL
3 63 (15.29%) PowerShell
4 38 (9.22%) Bash
5 27 (6.55%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.46%) Python
7 5 (1.21%) C#
8 3 (0.73%) Java
9 2 (0.49%) AWK
9 2 (0.49%) C++
9 2 (0.49%) sed
9 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.24%) PHP
10 1 (0.24%) ProC
10 1 (0.24%) VBScript
10 1 (0.24%) VC++
Qualifications
1 108 (26.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 77 (18.69%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.62%) Degree
4 40 (9.71%) Oracle Certification
5 36 (8.74%) DV Cleared
6 30 (7.28%) DBS Check
7 27 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (6.31%) OCP
9 19 (4.61%) SC Cleared
10 9 (2.18%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.46%) OCA
11 6 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.73%) CIPD
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.49%) MCITP
13 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.37%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.91%) SLA
3 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 74 (17.96%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.49%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.40%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (1.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (1.46%) Ansible
3 6 (1.46%) Data Guard
4 4 (0.97%) Terraform
5 3 (0.73%) Perfmon
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Statspack
6 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.24%) Foglight
7 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.24%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 191 (46.36%) Microsoft
2 142 (34.47%) Oracle
3 37 (8.98%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.13%) VMware
5 15 (3.64%) Commvault
5 15 (3.64%) Google
6 14 (3.40%) NEC
7 8 (1.94%) RedGate
8 6 (1.46%) IBM
9 4 (0.97%) SAP
10 3 (0.73%) New Relic
11 2 (0.49%) Civica
11 2 (0.49%) IFS
11 2 (0.49%) Progress
11 2 (0.49%) Veeam
11 2 (0.49%) Zoho
12 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco
12 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.24%) YouTube