Senior DBA Jobs in London

Senior Database Administrator
England > London

The median Senior Database Administrator salary in London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 468 622
Rank change year-on-year +79 +154 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DBA 3 24 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.10% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.11% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 11
10th Percentile £75,500 £63,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £81,875 £64,125 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £68,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.69% -33.17% +41.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £74,813 £121,875
90th Percentile - £86,500 £147,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 11,325 22,537 31,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.40% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,851 16,746 23,073
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,108 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior DBA in London

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 3 (100.00%) Replication
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) ClickHouse
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills

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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) ClickHouse
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Redis
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes