DBA Jobs in the South West

Database Administrator
England > South West

The median Database Administrator salary in the South West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 222 225
Rank change year-on-year +48 +3 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 5 75 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.14% 0.70% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.73% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4 33 22
10th Percentile £55,125 £40,000 £38,293
25th Percentile £59,063 £43,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,100
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +0.77% +9.68%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £59,725
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,325 10,341 5,709
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 96.10% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,015 7,464 3,662
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,134 £37,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the South West

DBA
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DBA in the South West

DBA
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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
Dorset +36 4 £62,500 +19.05% 3
Bristol +59 1 - - 8
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, 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 West region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
3 3 (60.00%) Database Security
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Cognos
5 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (20.00%) SLA
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (20.00%) Replication
5 1 (20.00%) Clustering
5 1 (20.00%) DB2
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Subversion
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Logistics

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
3 3 (60.00%) Database Security
3 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
5 1 (20.00%) Logistics
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
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