Senior SQL DBA Jobs in London

Senior SQL Database Administrator
England > London

The median Senior SQL Database Administrator salary in London is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 500 618
Rank change year-on-year +102 +118 +260
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL DBA 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.008% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.009% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £54,375 - -
25th Percentile £57,188 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -48.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £69,688 - £147,500
90th Percentile £72,125 - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%

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 11,491 22,247 33,558
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.13% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,485 16,728 24,644
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,097 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL DBA in London

Senior SQL DBA
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior SQL DBA in London

Senior SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL DBA in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL DBA in London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior SQL 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

Senior SQL 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle