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Database administrator: salary 2026

This is what Database administrator earn in Germany – from 20 job ads with a stated salary and 66 salary data sets.

Median, gross

€51,052

€36,151 lower 10 % €71,418 upper 10 %

How salaries are distributed

Each column = number of salary figures per €5,000 band · basis 86

  • Between lower and upper 10 % (€36,151 – €71,418)
  • Edges

Salary rises with experience

Median and middle 50 % per level · jobs + data sets

€40,000

Junior

37,500 – 43,000

13 values

€48,500

Mid-level

43,500 – 59,500

+21 % · 35 values

€53,000

Senior

47,500 – 56,500

+33 % · 23 values

€58,000

Lead/Principal

54,000 – 62,500

+45 % · 15 values

Salary by federal state

Median of the salary data sets for Database administrator per federal state. The samples are small here – read the figures as a trend, not a guarantee.

  1. North Rhine-Westphalia €57,000 n = 6
  2. Bavaria €56,000 n = 5
  3. Baden-Württemberg €53,000 n = 7
  4. Berlin €52,000 n = 7
  5. Schleswig-Holstein €50,000 n = 4
  6. Hesse €49,500 n = 6
  7. Hamburg €48,500 n = 5
  8. Lower Saxony €47,000 n = 4
  9. Rhineland-Palatinate €46,500 n = 4
  10. Thuringia €46,500 n = 5
  11. Brandenburg €46,000 n = 5
  12. Saarland €44,500 n = 4
  13. Saxony €43,500 n = 4

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Database administrator: job profile and outlook

Database administrators are responsible for the reliable and secure operation of database systems. They monitor performance, perform backups, implement security measures and ensure the high availability of business-critical databases. Their work is essential to ensure that applications can access data at all times. The requirements profile includes in-depth knowledge of one or more database management systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. Experience in backup and recovery strategies, replication, clustering, performance monitoring and capacity planning is at the core of the job. Cloud DBA skills for services such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL or Cloud SQL are also increasingly expected. Salaries for database administrators are above average, especially at companies with highly available systems such as banks, insurance companies and e-commerce platforms. Specialised DBAs with Oracle or SAP HANA expertise earn the highest salaries. On-call duty and responsibility for business-critical systems are also often remunerated additionally. Career paths lead from Junior DBA to Senior DBA to Lead DBA, Database Architect or IT Infrastructure Manager. Further development opportunities exist in the direction of cloud administration, DevOps or data engineering. The continuing importance of data management and compliance requirements guarantees DBAs stable career prospects.

Similarly paid roles

Same axis – directly comparable

€30,000 – €80,000 · bar = lower to upper 10 %, line = median

How we calculate

  • Sources: job ads with a stated salary that are assigned to a role, plus recorded salary data sets. Currently 6,381 active IT jobs state their salary.
  • Range: lower 10 % to upper 10 % (P10–P90), so that individual outliers do not shift the limits. The median splits the values into two equal halves.
  • Plausible: only gross annual salaries between €15,000 and €250,000; placeholders and monthly values are excluded.
  • Calculator: role median × experience factor × federal state factor. The factors come from 4,290 salary data sets – each as a ratio to the median of its role, so the mix of roles does not distort them.
  • Minimum size: breakdowns by skill, city and work model only appear from 20 values; every figure states its basis.

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