Senior DBA Jobs in London

Senior Database Administrator
England > London

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in London is £68,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 612 848
Rank change year-on-year +134 +236 -269
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 24 11 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.031% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.033% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 19
10th Percentile £63,000 £66,875 £42,999
25th Percentile £64,125 £68,750 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £96,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.83% +37.50% +27.27%
75th Percentile £74,813 £140,000 £87,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £147,500 £106,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.64% +2.17% +4.55%

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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DBA in London

Senior DBA
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior DBA in London

Senior DBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DBA in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior DBA in London

Senior 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 Senior DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +61 11 £66,000 -14.84%
Senior DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior DBA in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) MySQL
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 9 (37.50%) Tech for Good
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (37.50%) Datadog
3 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 9 (37.50%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (20.83%) DataOps
5 5 (20.83%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Operations
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) DAB
5 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (16.67%) Finance
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (12.50%) CQL
7 3 (12.50%) DataStax
7 3 (12.50%) Shell Script

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Datadog
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) MySQL
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (12.50%) DataStax
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (37.50%) Tech for Good
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Observability
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Operations
2 5 (20.83%) DataOps
2 5 (20.83%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (4.17%) Agile
5 1 (4.17%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (4.17%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 3 (12.50%) CQL
3 3 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle