DBA Jobs in Central London

Database Administrator
London > Central London

The median Database Administrator salary in Central London is £66,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 237 285
Rank change year-on-year +67 +48 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 22 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.58% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 16
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,625
25th Percentile £63,000 £52,873 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £70,875 £62,125 £72,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £79,375
London median annual salary £67,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.67% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,596 5,140 7,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 96.20% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 4,299 6,437
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for DBA in Central London

DBA
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in Central London

DBA
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 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
City of London +69 21 £67,000 +16.52% 3
City of Westminster -5 1 £55,000 -29.03%
DBA
London

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 Central London region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) MySQL
3 11 (50.00%) SQL
4 9 (40.91%) Observability
4 9 (40.91%) Tech for Good
4 9 (40.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (40.91%) Datadog
4 9 (40.91%) Terraform
5 8 (36.36%) Azure
5 8 (36.36%) Clustering
6 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
7 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
7 5 (22.73%) Replication
8 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (18.18%) Windows
8 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (18.18%) High Availability
8 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
9 3 (13.64%) Degree
9 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (13.64%) XML
9 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (13.64%) Oracle
9 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
9 3 (13.64%) .NET
9 3 (13.64%) C#

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Datadog
3 8 (36.36%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MySQL
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
7 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.55%) Redis
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 9 (40.91%) Tech for Good
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
1 3 (13.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Clustering
2 5 (22.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Observability
2 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (18.18%) High Availability
2 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (9.09%) Database Security
4 2 (9.09%) Security Management
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (4.55%) Change Management
5 1 (4.55%) ETL
5 1 (4.55%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.55%) Migration
5 1 (4.55%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.55%) Refactoring
5 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Data Guard
3 2 (9.09%) Foglight
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (9.09%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Commvault
3 2 (9.09%) IDERA
3 2 (9.09%) NetApp
4 1 (4.55%) Google