DBA Jobs in Manchester

Database Administrator
North West > Manchester

The median Database Administrator salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 145 229
Rank change year-on-year -14 +84 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 17 22 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.83% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.86% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 35
10th Percentile £48,105 £44,950 £36,837
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £63,438 £72,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £89,000 £62,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 3,472 2,556 5,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 96.78% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 1,882 3,537
10th Percentile £34,850 £33,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +3.55%
75th Percentile £69,663 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,056 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,803 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% +4.76% +5.00%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in Manchester

DBA
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Salford - 2 - -
DBA
North West

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 Manchester region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) SQL
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (41.18%) Performance Monitoring
3 6 (35.29%) Data Management
3 6 (35.29%) Degree
4 5 (29.41%) High Availability
4 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (29.41%) Kibana
4 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Linux
5 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Replication
5 4 (23.53%) AWS
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (17.65%) Business Transformation
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
6 3 (17.65%) MCTS
6 3 (17.65%) MCITP
6 3 (17.65%) Veeam

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
4 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) OLTP
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) Power Query
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (35.29%) Data Management
3 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (29.41%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Business Transformation
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Proactive Management
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Business Strategy
7 1 (5.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) R
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) MCITP
2 3 (17.65%) MCTS
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kibana
2 2 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Veeam
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) SAP