DBA Jobs in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator salary in London is £66,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 542 600
Rank change year-on-year +118 +58 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 79 112 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.31% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 68 108 189
10th Percentile £54,713 £47,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £82,000
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 22,018 34,851 62,244
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.06% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 25,402 35,153
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +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 19 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 19 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 +80 22 £66,000 +14.78% 5
South London +5 4 £60,000 -25.00%
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 47 (59.49%) SQL
2 46 (58.23%) SQL Server
3 33 (41.77%) T-SQL
4 30 (37.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (34.18%) AWS
5 27 (34.18%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (30.38%) MySQL
7 23 (29.11%) Finance
8 20 (25.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (25.32%) Azure
9 19 (24.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (22.78%) Clustering
10 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
10 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
11 17 (21.52%) High Availability
12 16 (20.25%) Windows
13 15 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (18.99%) Replication
13 15 (18.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (17.72%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (15.19%) Windows Server
15 12 (15.19%) Git
16 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
16 11 (13.92%) Change Management
16 11 (13.92%) ETL
16 11 (13.92%) ITIL
16 11 (13.92%) Database Security
17 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
17 9 (11.39%) Terraform

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 (2.53%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 9 (11.39%) Datadog
4 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (8.86%) GitHub
6 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.33%) PaaS
6 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (5.06%) IaaS
8 3 (3.80%) SaaS
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.53%) Serverless
10 1 (1.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) DAB
2 2 (2.53%) Internet
2 2 (2.53%) iSCSI
2 2 (2.53%) SSL
2 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (58.23%) SQL Server
2 30 (37.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 24 (30.38%) MySQL
4 19 (24.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (18.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 14 (17.72%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (11.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (11.39%) MongoDB
7 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
8 8 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (10.13%) Power BI
9 6 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
10 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (3.80%) DataStax
12 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
13 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (7.59%) Mercurial
4 5 (6.33%) JIRA
5 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 23 (29.11%) Finance
2 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Tech for Good
4 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) .NET
1 5 (6.33%) XML
2 4 (5.06%) RESTful
3 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Clustering
2 15 (18.99%) Replication
3 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.27%) NHS
4 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Windows
2 12 (15.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.06%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Debian
4 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) Performance Tuning
2 20 (25.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (21.52%) High Availability
4 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.92%) Change Management
5 11 (13.92%) Database Security
5 11 (13.92%) ETL
5 11 (13.92%) ITIL
6 9 (11.39%) Observability
7 8 (10.13%) Business Continuity
7 8 (10.13%) DevOps
7 8 (10.13%) Migration
7 8 (10.13%) Task Automation
8 7 (8.86%) Analytics
8 7 (8.86%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (7.59%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (7.59%) Data Integration
9 6 (7.59%) Database Migration
9 6 (7.59%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) SQL
2 33 (41.77%) T-SQL
3 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.39%) C#
5 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.06%) Python
7 3 (3.80%) CQL
8 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.86%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.53%) MCSA
5 2 (2.53%) MCSE
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Foglight
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft Clustering
1 9 (11.39%) Terraform
2 7 (8.86%) Ansible
2 7 (8.86%) Nagios
3 4 (5.06%) Data Guard
3 4 (5.06%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) ArcSight
2 7 (8.86%) HP
3 6 (7.59%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.53%) Commvault
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) IDERA
5 2 (2.53%) NetApp
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) RedGate
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow