DBA Jobs in London

Database Administrator
England > London

The median Database Administrator salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 416 642
Rank change year-on-year -4 +226 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 49 67 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 26 58 135
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £56,063 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £79,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £84,000
England median annual salary £59,125 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.76% +0.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 18,057 19,820 55,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.16% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,562 16,007 32,655
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,254
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +0.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.35%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +4 17 £72,500 +26.09% 5
DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 37 (75.51%) SQL
2 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
3 27 (55.10%) Oracle
4 26 (53.06%) Finance
5 21 (42.86%) Azure
6 19 (38.78%) Oracle Database
6 19 (38.78%) ITIL
7 15 (30.61%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (30.61%) PowerShell
7 15 (30.61%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (26.53%) T-SQL
9 12 (24.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
10 11 (22.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (20.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (20.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (18.37%) Degree
12 9 (18.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (18.37%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (16.33%) Dell
13 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
13 8 (16.33%) Veeam
13 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
13 8 (16.33%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (16.33%) AWS
13 8 (16.33%) Nutanix
14 7 (14.29%) NEC Housing
14 7 (14.29%) Driving Licence
14 7 (14.29%) DevOps

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:

Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) Nutanix
4 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.16%) Cloudflare
6 3 (6.12%) OCI
6 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.04%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (38.78%) Oracle Database
3 15 (30.61%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (24.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (20.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (18.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
10 4 (8.16%) Redis
10 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
11 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
11 3 (6.12%) Power BI
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (2.04%) MySQL
12 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (53.06%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Back Office
4 7 (14.29%) Local Government
4 7 (14.29%) Police
4 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Games
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
1 4 (8.16%) NestJS
1 4 (8.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 7 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.16%) Online Games
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Unix
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) ITIL
2 15 (30.61%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (22.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (16.33%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.29%) DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 5 (10.20%) Database Security
6 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.20%) Migration
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.16%) Agile
7 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.16%) Cryptocurrency
7 4 (8.16%) Database Migration
7 4 (8.16%) Kanban
7 4 (8.16%) People Management
7 4 (8.16%) Scrum
7 4 (8.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (75.51%) SQL
2 15 (30.61%) PowerShell
3 13 (26.53%) T-SQL
4 7 (14.29%) Python
5 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.12%) Java
7 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) OCA
4 2 (4.08%) OCP
4 2 (4.08%) SnowPro
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Ansible
2 3 (6.12%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 27 (55.10%) Oracle
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) Dell
3 8 (16.33%) Veeam
4 7 (14.29%) NEC
5 2 (4.08%) RedGate
6 1 (2.04%) Google