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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 222 272
Rank change year-on-year +68 +50 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 23 8 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 13
10th Percentile - £52,500 -
25th Percentile £63,000 £52,779 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £56,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -19.64% +11.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £62,150 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £67,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.52% -17.86% +11.55%

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 3,205 4,457 6,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.28% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 3,741 5,601
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +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 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 (56.52%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 11 (47.83%) MySQL
4 10 (43.48%) Azure
5 9 (39.13%) Datadog
5 9 (39.13%) Terraform
5 9 (39.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (39.13%) Observability
5 9 (39.13%) Tech for Good
6 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
6 7 (30.43%) Clustering
7 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (21.74%) Degree
8 5 (21.74%) Oracle
9 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
9 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (17.39%) Replication
9 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
9 4 (17.39%) High Availability
9 4 (17.39%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (13.04%) Database Security
10 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.04%) Database Migration
10 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (13.04%) VMware

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 (8.70%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) Datadog
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MySQL
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
4 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
7 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
9 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
9 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 1 (4.35%) Redis
General
1 9 (39.13%) Tech for Good
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Clustering
2 4 (17.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Observability
2 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (17.39%) High Availability
2 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (13.04%) Database Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Database Security
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (8.70%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) Security Management
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Change Management
5 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.35%) Migration
5 1 (4.35%) People Management
5 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (8.70%) Foglight
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (8.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.70%) Commvault
4 2 (8.70%) Dell
4 2 (8.70%) IDERA
4 2 (8.70%) NetApp
4 2 (8.70%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) Google