DBA Jobs in the City of London

Database Administrator
Central London > City of London

The median Database Administrator salary in the City of London is £67,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 227 268
Rank change year-on-year +70 +41 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 21 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.62% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 15
10th Percentile £61,650 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £63,000 £52,873 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £72,250 £60,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £60,850 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £66,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.83% -14.29% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 3,231 4,577 6,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 3,850 5,625
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the City of London

DBA
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the City of London.

Salary trend for DBA in the City of London

DBA
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the City of London

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 City of London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) MySQL
3 10 (47.62%) SQL
4 9 (42.86%) Observability
4 9 (42.86%) Tech for Good
4 9 (42.86%) Terraform
4 9 (42.86%) Datadog
4 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (38.10%) Azure
6 7 (33.33%) Clustering
7 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (19.05%) Replication
8 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
8 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (19.05%) High Availability
8 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (19.05%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
9 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (14.29%) Degree
9 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (14.29%) VMware
9 3 (14.29%) Oracle
9 3 (14.29%) Windows
10 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
10 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (9.52%) IIS

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (9.52%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Datadog
3 8 (38.10%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) MySQL
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
6 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
7 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.76%) Redis
7 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 9 (42.86%) Tech for Good
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Clustering
2 4 (19.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Observability
2 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (19.05%) High Availability
2 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.52%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (9.52%) Database Security
4 2 (9.52%) Security Management
5 1 (4.76%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.76%) Migration
5 1 (4.76%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) C#
2 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
2 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Data Guard
3 2 (9.52%) Foglight
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (9.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.52%) Commvault
3 2 (9.52%) IDERA
3 2 (9.52%) NetApp
4 1 (4.76%) Google