The Datum Report

Occupation 3133 · Associate professional occupations

Database administrators and web content technicians

Half of full-time database administrators and web content technicians in the UK earn more than £37,995 a year, and half earn less.

Database administrators and web content technicians administer, maintain and provide user support for databases and websites and assist in the design and development of databases; and monitors social media sites for posts and comments on behalf of companies.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with a variety of academic qualifications and/or relevant experience, although some employers may require a relevant degree. Training is provided off and on-the-job supplemented by specialised courses. Postgraduate qualifications and apprenticeships in some areas are available.

What the work involves

• assists in database design and creation and amends existing databases
• tests databases and writes user guides for their operation
• administers, monitors and supports databases and website content
• extracts data and assists others in the use of the database
• writes and publishes content and monitors and maintains functionality of websites
• trains colleagues in the use of the databases and websites
• proof reads social media content and checks content of videos before publication on websites

Also called

Database administrator · Digital content editor · Intranet coordinator · Website moderator

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for database administrators and web content technicians, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 7 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

IT technicians · IT user support technicians