SQL DBA Jobs in London

SQL Database Administrator
England > London

The median SQL Database Administrator salary in London is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 575 761
Rank change year-on-year +100 +186 -213
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL DBA 27 48 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 46 101
10th Percentile £58,250 £49,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile - £86,875 £74,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +3.09%

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 22,245 33,556 64,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,727 24,642 34,900
10th Percentile £38,095 £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 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

SQL DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SQL DBA in London

SQL DBA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL DBA in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL DBA in London

SQL 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 SQL DBA within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +53 6 £66,250 +20.45%
South London -6 2 £58,750 -26.56%
SQL DBA
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 SQL DBA in the job title.

1 23 (85.19%) SQL Server
2 19 (70.37%) SQL
3 17 (62.96%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (55.56%) T-SQL
5 14 (51.85%) Clustering
6 13 (48.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (48.15%) Azure
7 11 (40.74%) High Availability
7 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (40.74%) Finance
7 11 (40.74%) Windows
7 11 (40.74%) Windows Server
8 9 (33.33%) Change Management
8 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (29.63%) Power BI
9 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
10 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
10 7 (25.93%) Database Security
10 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (25.93%) Ansible
10 7 (25.93%) HP
10 7 (25.93%) Nagios
10 7 (25.93%) Business Continuity
10 7 (25.93%) ArcSight
10 7 (25.93%) Git
10 7 (25.93%) GitHub
10 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
10 7 (25.93%) Foglight

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 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 7 (25.93%) GitHub
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.81%) AWS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) SQL Server
2 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (29.63%) Power BI
6 5 (18.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
8 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Clustering
2 5 (18.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
1 11 (40.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (48.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (40.74%) High Availability
4 9 (33.33%) Change Management
5 7 (25.93%) Business Continuity
5 7 (25.93%) Database Security
5 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
6 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) Data Integration
8 4 (14.81%) Analytics
8 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (14.81%) ITIL
9 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (11.11%) Data Security
9 3 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
9 3 (11.11%) Database Tuning
9 3 (11.11%) DevOps
9 3 (11.11%) ETL
9 3 (11.11%) Fintech
9 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) SQL
2 15 (55.56%) T-SQL
3 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) MCSA
2 2 (7.41%) MCSE
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Ansible
1 7 (25.93%) Foglight
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Clustering
1 7 (25.93%) Nagios
2 2 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) ArcSight
1 7 (25.93%) HP
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Commvault
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) NetApp
3 2 (7.41%) VMware