DBA Jobs in the West Midlands

Database Administrator
England > West Midlands

The median Database Administrator salary in the West Midlands is £58,750 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 223 193 272
Rank change year-on-year -30 +79 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 33 58 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 1.00% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 1.11% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 24 48 22
10th Percentile - £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £38,235 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,275 £60,875
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,610 5,232 7,257
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.94% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,613 3,238 4,837
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,552
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the West Midlands

DBA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -12 30 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Staffordshire -26 1 £57,500 +52.72% 2
Warwickshire - 1 £45,000 -
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 23 (69.70%) SQL
2 22 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 19 (57.58%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (51.52%) Azure
5 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
6 13 (39.39%) Logistics
7 11 (33.33%) Linux
8 10 (30.30%) Oracle
8 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
9 9 (27.27%) T-SQL
9 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
9 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
9 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (27.27%) Power BI
10 8 (24.24%) Driving Licence
10 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
10 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (24.24%) Replication
11 7 (21.21%) Problem Management
11 7 (21.21%) Local Government
11 7 (21.21%) Degree
11 7 (21.21%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
11 7 (21.21%) Back Office
11 7 (21.21%) NEC
11 7 (21.21%) Finance
11 7 (21.21%) Manufacturing
11 7 (21.21%) ITIL

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.09%) MQSeries
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 3 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 7 (21.21%) NEC Housing
2 3 (9.09%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) SaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (27.27%) Power BI
4 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (21.21%) Oracle Database
5 7 (21.21%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (15.15%) Looker
6 5 (15.15%) Tableau
7 4 (12.12%) MySQL
8 3 (9.09%) DB2
9 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (3.03%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
10 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
10 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Back Office
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Local Government
3 7 (21.21%) Manufacturing
3 7 (21.21%) Police
3 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.18%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) CSS
2 1 (3.03%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Driving Licence
1 8 (24.24%) Replication
2 7 (21.21%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Unix
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (39.39%) Logistics
3 9 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 7 (21.21%) Application Security
4 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
4 7 (21.21%) ITIL
4 7 (21.21%) Problem Management
5 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 6 (18.18%) Data Management
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
5 6 (18.18%) Supply Chain Management
6 5 (15.15%) Database Tuning
6 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.15%) IT Strategy
6 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) Security Management
7 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (12.12%) Database Security
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.03%) PHP
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.21%) NEC
4 3 (9.09%) IBM