DBA Jobs in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator salary in London is £67,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 532 608
Rank change year-on-year +106 +76 -157
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 82 108 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 67 103 189
10th Percentile £55,800 £47,950 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £53,936 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% +3.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in London

DBA
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for DBA in London

DBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in London

DBA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +58 22 £66,500 +10.83% 4
South London -1 4 £60,000 -25.00%
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 49 (59.76%) SQL Server
2 46 (56.10%) SQL
3 32 (39.02%) T-SQL
4 30 (36.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (36.59%) Performance Tuning
5 27 (32.93%) AWS
5 27 (32.93%) Finance
6 23 (28.05%) MySQL
7 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
8 20 (24.39%) Azure
9 19 (23.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (23.17%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (23.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (20.73%) Clustering
10 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
11 16 (19.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 16 (19.51%) High Availability
12 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (17.07%) ITIL
12 14 (17.07%) Windows
12 14 (17.07%) Replication
13 13 (15.85%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (14.63%) Git
15 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
15 11 (13.41%) Change Management
15 11 (13.41%) Windows Server
15 11 (13.41%) Database Security
16 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
16 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
16 10 (12.20%) ETL

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.93%) AWS
2 20 (24.39%) Azure
3 9 (10.98%) Datadog
4 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.54%) GitHub
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.10%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.66%) IaaS
8 3 (3.66%) PaaS
8 3 (3.66%) SaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.44%) Serverless
10 1 (1.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) DAB
2 2 (2.44%) Internet
2 2 (2.44%) SSL
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (59.76%) SQL Server
2 30 (36.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 23 (28.05%) MySQL
4 19 (23.17%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (23.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (19.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 13 (15.85%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (10.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (10.98%) MongoDB
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (9.76%) Power BI
8 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
9 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database
10 5 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
11 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (3.66%) DataStax
12 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
13 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) Mercurial
2 6 (7.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (6.10%) JIRA
4 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 27 (32.93%) Finance
2 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Tech for Good
5 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.88%) Back Office
6 4 (4.88%) Local Government
6 4 (4.88%) Police
7 2 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) .NET
1 4 (4.88%) RESTful
1 4 (4.88%) XML
2 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Clustering
2 14 (17.07%) Replication
3 4 (4.88%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Windows
2 11 (13.41%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.10%) Unix
4 4 (4.88%) Linux
5 3 (3.66%) Debian
5 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.59%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (23.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (19.51%) High Availability
4 14 (17.07%) ITIL
4 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.41%) Change Management
5 11 (13.41%) Database Security
6 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 10 (12.20%) ETL
7 9 (10.98%) Observability
8 8 (9.76%) Business Continuity
8 8 (9.76%) Problem Management
8 8 (9.76%) Task Automation
9 7 (8.54%) Fintech
9 7 (8.54%) Migration
10 6 (7.32%) Analytics
10 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.32%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (7.32%) DevOps
11 5 (6.10%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (56.10%) SQL
2 32 (39.02%) T-SQL
3 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.76%) C#
5 6 (7.32%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.88%) Python
7 3 (3.66%) CQL
8 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) Degree
3 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.44%) MCSA
5 2 (2.44%) MCSE
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Foglight
1 9 (10.98%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (8.54%) Ansible
3 7 (8.54%) Nagios
4 4 (4.88%) Data Guard
4 4 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) Oracle
3 7 (8.54%) ArcSight
3 7 (8.54%) HP
4 4 (4.88%) NEC
4 4 (4.88%) VMware
5 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.44%) Commvault
5 2 (2.44%) Databricks
5 2 (2.44%) IDERA
5 2 (2.44%) NetApp
6 1 (1.22%) Google
6 1 (1.22%) RedGate
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow